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Mobile Development News -July 29, 2010

Posted by Tish Grier in News July 29, 2010 No Comments

Summit at Stanford 2010:  What’s New in the Mobile Monetization World There’s a fascinating conference going on at Stanford on the mobile world.  This post offers some key insights from the first session on Brazil, app monetization and revenue stream possibilities.

JIL’s slow progress doesn’t bode well for WAC The relationship between WAC and JIL sounds like a good idea.  But could that relationship turn out to be not so great for WAC?  Some interesting points raised in this article on how the whole idea of WAC might be a bit too late.

LG Launches App Store With No Android Apps How odd….and the store is available only in 23 European countries.

GNOME 3 not ready yet, release pushed back to 2011 GNOME is not ready for mass consumption just yet–as it was announced at the GUADEC conference this week.

New Mobile Network for Congo Nears Launch Equatur Telecom, a subsidiary of  Bintel, will operate in Congo under the name Azur.  Azur Congo will launch in Brazzaville and Point Noir, and will spread to other cities.

Vodafone brings solar power mobile phone to India One third of Indians don’t have regular or no electricity, but they have an appetite and need for mobile phones.  What better device to get in their hands than a solar powered mobile handset!  The new device will need 8 hours of sunlight to charge, can support 8 days of use on standby and four hours of constant talk time.   It will also be able to act as a torch light and FM radio.  Now that certainly is a multi-use handset.

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I’ve spent the last 11 years working on mobile apps, 10 of those under the banner of Future Platforms, the Brighton-based software company I set up in 2000. This experience has given me a fair few grey hairs… but also a fairly long-term perspective on the industry. (more…)

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But no, I’m talking about the mobile industry at the start of the 21st century. A carnival of competition many times larger and ultimately more significant than even the planet’s biggest sporting event.

But let’s take a closer look at this analogy, and think about some of those involved…
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