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Adobe frees mobile flash: It’s about time

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 [...]

Nokia, the OS company

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 [...]

Jaguar XF-R Spied - Video

The coming Jaguar XF-R has been caught in the valley of death. It was accompanied by a Jaguar XJ mule and shepherded by a fleet of Land Rovers charged with blocking the all-seeing eye of someone’s Sony Handycam. Fortunately for us, they failed. The driver of this particular prototype XF-R couldn’t keep his foot off [...]

Japan - wallet phone export plans

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 [...]

Killer Apps in Mobile Social Networking

I will be contributing to a speaker panel on the Next Killer Application in Mobile Social Networking at the Mobile Web Europe conference in London in September and am gathering some thoughts on the subject.
So far, I have identified 4 potential candidates for what this next Killer App could be:
1. Mobile Dating applications
2. Mobile Social [...]