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What’s on at Mix 2010 – some surprises as Microsoft talks standards

By tim, on February 20th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Mix conference is on next month – probably the company’s second most interesting conference after PDC, though this Mix looks rather better than last year’s relatively drab PDC (free laptops aside). The company has plenty to talk about, primarily around Windows Phone development – twelve sessions! – Internet Explorer 9, and Silverlight 4. Mix

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Why I don’t want to view bbc.co.uk through an app

By tim, on February 17th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC has announced mobile apps for BBC content, the first being for the iPhone. There is a demo posted by David Madden here:

Our aim is to develop core public service apps that bring some of the BBC’s most popular and distinctive content to mobile in a genuinely user-friendly and accessible way.

In another post Erik

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Windows Phone 7 Series and Microsoft’s partner problem

By tim, on February 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I watched Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, Joe Belfiore, and Andy Lees introduce Windows Phone 7 Series. It appears to be a complete departure from previous iterations of Windows Mobile, in fact borrowing more from Zune than it does from earlier Windows phones. At one point, Lees noted that it has a “new core OS” optimized in

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Joining the Smartphone dots

By tim, on January 5th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has made a big splash with its launch of Nexus One, even though technically it is not all that exciting. A neat phone; 1 Ghz Qualcomm processor; runs Android 2.1; good for web video with its inclusion of Adobe Flash 10.1, along with the ability to

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Miguel de Icaza on eight years of Mono, its future, and the Silverlight desktop

By tim, on October 29th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Mono founder Miguel de Icaza spoke at the Monospace conference – 250 enthusiasts in Austin, Texas – on the past and future of the project. I wasn’t there but enjoyed listening to the keynote as posted by Redmonk’s Michael Coté.

“Never ask for permission, ask for forgiveness – that’s how we’ve done a lot of

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Is Apple iPhone now unstoppable in the mobile platform wars?

By tim, on October 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been reflecting on a chat I had with a mobile application developer at Qt Developer Days last week. He thinks that Apple has all-but won in the battle to dominate the SmartPhone platform.

His reasoning is based on a couple of things. The first is that Apple is easily outpacing others in application availability

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Adobe hoping to marginalise Flash-free iPhone

By tim, on October 6th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

We got a few more clues about Adobe’s iPhone problem at a press conference today with Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch. There is no doubt about the importance Adobe attaches to the device. “Flash needs to get there in order to stay relevant on the web”, says Lynch, though there was some ambiguity about whether

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Apple, Spotify, Google and iPhone: how to get into App Store

By tim, on August 28th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I was mildly surprised to see that Apple has approved Spotify for iPhone. Reason: if someone buys into the Spotify subscription model, why would they ever want to purchase music from iTunes, whether for iPhone or elsewhere? The iPhone version lets you listen to selected tracks offline, so that is not a problem.

Here’s a

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Spotify for iPhone looks great – if Apple allows it

By tim, on July 27th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m fascinated by the announcement of Spotify for iPhone.

Spotify lets you stream music from the company’s servers using a particularly fast and elegant user interface. The choice is huge, and of course shareable playlists are supported – I’ve had a lot of fun with these, using the desktop version.

Now here it comes for iPhone, with

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Adobe “Committed to bringing Flash Player to the iPhone”

By tim, on June 17th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe CEO commented during yesterday’s earnings call:

We are also equally committed to bringing the Flash Player to the iPhone, so now we do have a Flash Player 10 version for smartphones. We continue to work with Apple. We need more APIs and cooperation to bring the capabilities of Flash to the iPhone and we think

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