Via EngadgetMobile, looks like mobile application usage is exploding since over the holidays there were more than 1 Billion downloads on the various mobile application stores.
These are impressive numbers but also pose a challange for developers. On one side is a great opportunity but on the other is a very difficult business to be in.
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Here is a surprising news from Adobe, they are closing development for Flash on Mobile browsers. Finally! Why I say finally? Because there are no developers who are targeting the mobile browser with Flash, cannot make money with it!
I have always mentioned this to developers, how do you make money from Flash withing a mobile [...]
Via Sport-Tracker blog, the Sport Tracker application is now available for the Nokia N9. Just installed and looks really cool, now I need to get out ! You can download it from the Nokia Store.
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During the Nokia World 2011 I attended the Nokia Developer Champion day and Nokia game everyone a Nokia N9!
Thanks to Nokia Developer for the great gift! By the way the model is the 64GBytes !!
Let me say this, it’s the best phone I ever used. It’s incredible how Nokia created this MeeGo powered devices with [...]
From Oct 24th to 27th I will be attending Nokia World and Nokia Developer Champion day in London.
I am really looking forward to see which news Nokia has regarding the Windows Phone devices, new technologies and also new Nokia devices. There many different sessions to attend both technical and business oriented.
Also I will be attending [...]
AIR 3 and Flash 11 are available for your PC but also for your Android device. Just downloaded and installed on my Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Here are the information on all AIR 3 changes which are quite a lot !
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Another announcment today from Adobe MAX 2011 is about Adobe AIR expanding its reach to LG tvs and TiVo. Read press release.
“Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that LG and TiVo have become the latest partners to bring Adobe(R) Flash(R)-based applications via Adobe AIR(R) to [...]
Today at the Adobe MAX 2011 keynote, Kevin Lynch announced the Adobe Touch Apps which are a set of apps running on Tablets making their tools mobile. Look at the videos to look how Adobe tools become mobile!
Check out Photoshop touch and Proto, pretty impressive.
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Today an interesting announcment from Adobe which acquired PhoneGap and that the framework will go open source with Apache Foundation license.
“PhoneGap has proven to be an industry-defining app solution for HTML5 developers,” said Danny Winokur, vice president and general manager, Platform, Adobe. “PhoneGap is a fantastic solution for developing a broad range [...]
When Apple launched the iPhone I made a post about Apple becoming a Mobile Content Network Operator. History reapeats itself!
I think Amazon Kindle Fire might be the same idea. The secret behind the iPhone success is iTunes! iTune has been the platform that lead Apple to drive all paying customers into the iPhone/iPad era. Yes, [...]
Here is a video showcasing Adobe AIR application running on multiple devices and OS, such as Android, iOS an PlayBook.
While the press always point to Flash on the web or mobile web, the power of Adobe AIR to develop for multiple devices is a very good proposition which does get much attention.
by the way, Adobe [...]
Nokia Beta Labs released a new Nokia Store client for some devices and they are looking for feedback.
The Nokia Store is a QML client and it’s available for the following devices: Nokia C6-01, C7-00, C7 Astound, E7-00, N8-00, X7-00.
“This beta Store client will replace the current Store client on your Symbian^3 or Symbian Anna [...]
Nokia released a new update for their Symbian^3 devices, Symbian Anna. They also announced the latest Symbian Belle OS in addition to several devices which are all Flash Lite 4 enabled:
Nokia 500
Nokia 600
Nokia 700
Nokia 701
I just installed Symbian Anna on my Nokia E7 and Nokia N8 and it looks like a great update especially the [...]
Via Android dev blog, a new app for the Android Market is on the way to Android phones and tablets. The new client should allow users to buy books and movies but it might be limited at some country at the moment.
“The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, [...]
It’s going to be a busy summer this year since there are couple of AIR Mobile contests which are pretty interesting:
Adobe AIR App Challenge sponsored by Adobe and Sony. “Today we’re announcing an exciting new Adobe AIR App Challenge for two upcoming Sony Tablet devices. It’s available to those of you in Germany, Italy, [...]
Via BlackBerry Dev blog, AIR 2.7 update is available for BB Tablet OS.
“The next generation of Adobe® AIR® on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet has arrived! With the availability of a new Adobe® AIR® 2.7 runtime, developers will have full support for Adobe® Flex and Adobe® ActionScript on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The new Adobe AIR [...]
It’s already 4 days with my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I can say that it rocks!
I installed about 52 apps, many social networking apps (missing a facebook dedicated app for Android Tablet yet) including Google+
Several games, applications and new apps. I have to say that many are not optimized for the Tablet, few are [...]
Yestarday I got my new toy: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. I got the 32Gb, WiFi only version since I do not think having it 3G enabled is necessary since I have a smartphone that can share 3G data connection, just a suggestion!
I made an unboxing video but forgot to turn on audio (yeah I know!!!) [...]
