Google have had much press recently with the Android platform, but there is plenty of activity in other areas of mobile technology. Apple have revealed their software development kit, allowing third parties to develop first-class applications for the iPhone. This is backed by a US$100m fund, and also includes an increased focus on the enterprise market.
Sun have responded to Apple announcement to say they are porting Java Mobile Edition to run on the iPhone, which gives developers yet another technology to use in building applications for the iPhone. This may or may not actually happen, depending on the licensing terms of the Apple software.
Meanwhile "Microsoft has launched a bid to capture a segment of the growing market for rich web content on mobile phones", by signing a deal with Nokia to bring Microsoft's Flash-like platform, Silverlight, to mobile handsets.
Sources:
Sun have responded to Apple announcement to say they are porting Java Mobile Edition to run on the iPhone, which gives developers yet another technology to use in building applications for the iPhone. This may or may not actually happen, depending on the licensing terms of the Apple software.
Meanwhile "Microsoft has launched a bid to capture a segment of the growing market for rich web content on mobile phones", by signing a deal with Nokia to bring Microsoft's Flash-like platform, Silverlight, to mobile handsets.
Sources:
- Microsoft targets the mobile web, The BBC.
- Apple unveils iPhone 2.0 software, Computing.
- $100m fund offered to develop iPhone applications, Computing.
- New iPhone SDK released for developers and business customers, Computing.
- Sun: We'll put Java on the iPhone, Infoworld.
