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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 [...]

There’s so much hype in the mobile industry that I’m always reluctant to use a word like “shocking,” but nothing else fits Nokia’s announcement today that it will support Microsoft Silverlight.
If you missed the press release (link), Nokia said that it’s going to make Microsoft Silverlight available for all of its mobile platforms — Series [...]

Nokia bought Trolltech for about $150 million, and there’s all sorts of speculation online about what it means. Before I get to that, let me quickly summarize what Trolltech does:
Trolltech is a Norwegian company that makes development tools and Linux software. Its best-known products are Qt (a software layer and development tools for [...]

[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 [...]

It looks like the topic of TechEd this year evolves around new rendering/layout technologies, like WPF and Silverlight. There are already many ISVs out there selling controls built on top of these new technologies. I was listening to a presentation about Silverlight running on Windows Mobile at TechEd today. At MIX it was announced that [...]