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Today Adobe announced a series of changes to its emerging web applications platform. The changes include:
–The next version of the mobile Flash runtime will be free of license fees. Adobe also confirmed that the mobile version of the Air runtime will be free.
–Adobe changed its licensing terms and released additional technical information that [...]

Japan to start overseas cell phone technology push
Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation’s popular “wallet phone,” a government official said Tuesday.
Although Japan boasts some of the most sophisticated cell phones in the world, delivering high-speed Internet connections, digital TV broadcasts and video downloads, the nation has [...]

I’d like to share an interesting presentation on the development of NFC contactless mobile payments as described by NTT DoCoMo in Japan during the recent GSMA Mobile Money Summit in Cairo.
The latest figures released show that the uptake of mobile payments has been dramatic, and that at the same time as the number of retails [...]

[With a correction made on June 26.]
The Symbian Foundation announcement today is a fascinating change in business strategy, but I’m not sure if it will help or hurt Nokia in the long run. I think something like this was probably necessary just to clean up the mess in Symbian’s ownership structure. If [...]