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Monday, April 21, 2008

iPhone for the Enterprise

eWeek report on developers looking at the iPhone SDK with a view to developing enterprise applications for the device.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Opera on Android

"[...] manufacturers around the world are looking to make Android handsets, and all those handsets are going to need a web browser". Opera have stepped in and "ported" their Java Opera Mini web browser to run on the Android platform, by creating "a special wrapper that translates Java ME (mostly MIDP) API calls into Android API calls."

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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Almost one-third of US users now sending SMS daily.

2007Q4 data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project study shows the following daily phone and PDA data usage:

  • Send or receive SMS: 31%
  • Send or receive email: 8%
  • Send of recieve IM: 6%

"Respondents said that, of all their consumer electronics devices, their mobile phones would be most difficult to do without, followed by the Internet, TV, and landline telephones. Among young adults, 62% said it would be very hard to do without a mobile phone."

Source: eMarketer.