Windows Phone 7 will not run Windows Mobile applications

March 5, 2010

Microsoft has just posted the following on their official blog:
To enable the fantastic user experiences you’ve seen in the Windows Phone 7 Series demos so far we’ve had to break from the past. To deliver what developers expect in the developer platform we’ve had to change how phone apps were written. One result of this is [...]

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Skype Peer-to-peer client is now out for Symbian

March 5, 2010

If you have a Symbian phone you can now download Skype for Symbian including free Skype calling over WiFi and 3G (assuming you have a mobile data subscription).
In Sweden you can buy flat-rate mobile data subscriptions for only 59 SEK per month (€6 per month) from Telenor. Add to that an “Unlimited World” subscription from Skype for [...]

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Mac Developer Program Cost Drops from $499 to $99 per year

March 5, 2010

If you want to develop applications for Mac OSX and want technical support, support video access and developer forum access you would previously have to purchase a Mac Developer Program that costed $499 per year for individuals ($3499 for corporations). With this you would also get exclusive access to pre-release software launched by Apple.
As of [...]

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Windows Mobile 6 cannot be upgraded to Windows Phone 7

March 2, 2010

Natasha Kwan, Microsoft’s General Manager for Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific market, posted the following information to the tech blog APC:
“Because we have very specific requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series the current phones we have right now will not be upgradable.”
This won’t do wonders for Windows Mobile sales this year, which are already [...]

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iPhone User Statistics

February 27, 2010

Quite often I get questions relating to the average iPhone user, such as “What’s the average age of an iPhone user”, “What’s the download ratio between paid and free apps”, and “How many applications does a user download by average per month?”
Admob’s recent Mobile Metrics Report answers these questions and much more. Below I have pasted [...]

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Apple – a focused company

February 26, 2010

Apple’s COO Tim Cook in an interview about how Apple chooses what products to bring to the market:
We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the [...]

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Outlook PST Security

February 24, 2010

Do you use Outlook with PST files, and have you bothered to set a password to your PST files to protect your data? As of today you might as well just remove that password.
Today the official PST specification was released as a PDF document, and it’s now up to anyone to easily create applications that [...]

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Explicit Applications

February 24, 2010

It seems that Apple has added a new category for application submissions: the “Explicit” category.
So it looks like fans of titles such as Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes From Outer Space (one of over 5000 applications that were removed in the App Store Cleanup Process) will soon enough be able get their credit cards [...]

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Adobe – An Apple Mac Company

February 24, 2010

Interesting quote I found by Lee Brimelow, Platform Evangelist at Adobe:
Adobe is a company of Mac users. You are hard-pressed to find someone at Adobe who doesn’t use a Mac or that is without an iPhone. We love Apple products so obviously we want our player to be top notch on that platform.

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iPad Graphics = iPhone 3GS Graphics

February 24, 2010

In the latest iPhone OS 3.2 SDK beta 3 for the Apple iPad it has now been confirmed that the iPad is using the same graphics hardware as the iPhone 3GS.
Using OpenGL ES on iPad is identical to using OpenGL ES on other iPhone OS devices. An iPad is a PowerVR SGX device and supports [...]

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