At Mobile World Congress, Softtalkblog caught up with Peter Rohr, who is Marketing Manager EMEA, Intel Software und Services Group, Developer Relations Division. He told us about the reaction from developers to the Meego announcement, how Meego fits into Intel’s strategy and what we can expect from the Intel AppUp Center, now in beta.
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If you come from a Java background, you’ve probably discovered Groovy already. It brings many of the features associated with Ruby to Java, and provides a high degree of compatibility with Java, making it relatively easy for programmers to learn incrementally. Wikipedia goes so far as to say that you can rename a .java file [...]
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, took the stage at Mobile World Congress last night to deliver a keynote address in which he revealed that Google’s new guiding principle is ‘Mobile First’. That’s because the mobile phone is where three key technology waves intersect: computing power (with the Nexus One having a gigahertz processor), connectivity (with [...]
On evening one of Mobile World Congress, IMGA held its 6th annual awards ceremony for the best unpublished mobile gaming applications from around the world. Open to any game developer, from the independent individual to the big game houses, and any mobile form factor, IMGA categories covered real world games, design, connectivity, game play and [...]
Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran shared his thoughts on mobile content in a session at Mobile World Congress, following the band’s gig at the awards party last night. “We’ve always looked at technology from the beginning [of our career], whether it was TV, radio or the internet more recently,” he said. “Mobile phones, artists haven’t [...]
There was inspiration for app developers at this morning’s opening session at Mobile World Congress about the world of applications. While games dominate the download charts, many people find the most value in applications that can help with their daily activities. The importance of these lifestyle apps was emphasised in two presentations by Ho Soo [...]
Before the announcement of the International Mobile Gaming Awards at Mobile World Congress this year, IMGA CEO Maarten Noyens chaired a discussion panel, where industry figures speculated on the year ahead for mobile gaming.
It was clear that much of the buzz for 2010 is focused on real world and location-based gaming, with representatives from handset [...]
The interesting thing about the way that devices are converging is that it means developers are exposed to ideas and companies that they might not previously have worked with. Following yesterday’s announcement that Intel and Nokia have joined forces to create the MeeGo Linux platform, I thought it would be interesting to sketch a picture [...]
In the early days of the mobile internet, users were happy to experience a small subset of the full internet’s functionality on their phone. They accepted that not everything was possible with the bandwidth, screen resolution and user interface limitations of early web-enabled phones. But their expectations have changed dramatically, according to research by web [...]