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Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel has blogged about the Windows Phone 7 development platform. As widely leaked, the new mobile device supports Silverlight and XNA; Kindel also mentions .NET, but since both Silverlight and XNA are .NET platforms, that might not mean anything additional. The big story is about compatibility: To deliver what developers expect in the developer platform …continue reading Windows Phone 7 incompatibility may drive developers elsewhere When is the right moment to buy a mobile phone? Usually the answer is not quite yet; and that seems to the case if you want to be sure of support for Flash Player 10.1, the first full version of the runtime to run on mobile devices. Adobe recently struck off support for Windows Mobile …continue reading Flash 10.1 mobile roadmap confusion, Windows phone support far off 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 …continue reading Why I don’t want to view bbc.co.uk through an app Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a keynote address at the Mobile World Congress yesterday, which is worth watching if you have an interest in the future of technology or, well, human life. The talk was an informative and open insight into Google’s future direction. It was centred on mobile; but since Google now regards the …continue reading Google’s strategy unveiled: a little bit of everything you do I am watching Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress today. I am only 10 minutes in, but I was struck by these comments, as he talks about improving connectivity across the internet: Think of it as an opportunity to instrument the world. These networks are now so pervasive that we can literally …continue reading Eric Schmidt: we can literally know everything 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 …continue reading Windows Phone 7 Series and Microsoft’s partner problem Nokia’s Maemo operating system, a Linux distribution for mobile devices, is being merged with the Intel-sponsored Moblin distribution to form MeeGo, under the direction of the Linux Foundation: MeeGo combines Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo projects at the Linux Foundation to create one open source uber-platform for the next generation of computing devices: tablets, pocketable computers, …continue reading Nokia Maemo, Intel Moblin gives way to MeeGo Adobe’s announcement of AIR for mobile today at the Mobile World Congress means that any Flash or Flex developer can compile an AIR application that will run on a supported mobile device. I understand that AIR for mobile is a subset of desktop AIR, but does include Flash Player 10.1, local database support with SQLite, …continue reading Flash developers are now mobile developers Note: speculative post; I have no official information on this. It’s been rumoured for ages; but at this point I would be surprised if the Windows Mobile 7 UI were not built with Silverlight. Consider: Silverlight has to be supported – it should have been in 6.5 – otherwise nobody will take mobile Silverlight seriously …continue reading A Silverlight UI for Windows Mobile 7, backward compatibility in doubt |
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