Tag: Smartphone
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Londroid 16 Sep 2011 – 1.6 million downloads
The Londroid September meetup was a great success. Here is a quick review for people who could not make it. Kabbee – A marketplace for minicab journeys – Phil Makinson What is Kabbee? Kabbee is a price comparison and booking service for quality minicabs in Greater London. Very nice use of a smartphone. This is…
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Amazing statistics on smartphone usage in Europe
Following hot on the heels of the Vision Mobile report on the future of smartphone development comes a post from Flurry analytics. Flurry is installed by SmartPhone developers to monitor the usage of their applications. So successful has it been that they are installed on 85% of all smartphones and track over 15 Billion user…
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HP rocks Microsoft with webOS PC play
I have always wondered why HP bought Palm and its WebOs. Now it makes sense to me. This is a convergence play. We have Google with Chrome/Android, Apple with Mac/Ios leaving Microsoft with the great big windows Windows and the little boy no-one wants to play with, Windows Phone. (see update below) HP rocks Redmond…
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Android goes virtual • The Register
This is very interesting. Run Android on a JVM on any smartphone. I won’t bet on Java on the iPhone… Android goes virtual As of today, Myriad’s Dalvik virtual machine can run any Android application on the Maemo-based Nokia N900, with other platforms to follow soon. The idea is to get manufacturers to preinstall Alien…
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Mobile Developer Economics 2010: The migration of developer mindshare | VisionMobile :: blog
Thanks to Ian M. for pointing out this great report (pdf) on mobile app development. In gives a very comprehensive view of the development ecosystem. Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond via VisionMobile :: research reports. Here is a small except taken from the author’s synopsis in his blog. The charts in the original article…
Dr James Bayley 