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$150MM for startups that create new and exciting mobile applications, that uses context, location, payments, advertising, music and entertainment… very neat… See Nokia to Invest an Additional USD 150 Million Through Nokia Growth Partners. ceo

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today has published its best practices and standards for open mobile Web and Web application development. The goal is to help mobile content developers deal with the challenges of designing Web content for a variety of mobile devices – i.e., not just the iPhone or other proprietary platforms. In … Read more

A quick note of another study, this time by ABI Research, that mobile messaging (SMS) is and will continue to be the top use, after voice, for cellphones — see SMS to Garner 83% of All Mobile Messaging Revenues through 2013 (ABI Research). Another important point made by the research is that companies are looking … Read more

At our last MobileMonday Austin event we had the pleasure of having as guest speaker Nikunj Mehta, team leader of the Atom DB project at Oracle. It really was a great technical presentation by Nikunj, where he discussed mobile web applications, synchronization and disconnected databases. He introduced AtomDB which in my opinion has great potential … Read more

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Not bad… From Apple Says 25 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded (CNN): Apple Inc. (AAPL) said iPhone owners has downloaded 25 million copies of software programs for the phone in about 11 days, which it sees as a significant benefit for future iPhone sales. Related to this see Apple Store – 10 million downloads in just … Read more

Update Jul-22: Apple Says 25 Million IPhone Apps Downloaded (in 11 days). Wow… SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) said iPhone owners has downloaded 25 million copies of software programs for the phone in about 11 days, which it sees as a significant benefit for future iPhone sales. William Volk wrote at ForxumOfxord the … Read more

Have you heard about Bondi? It is OMTP‘s initiative to extend the mobile browser to provide AJAX-like capabilities and access to local functionality on the handset. From the OMTP website: The OMTP BONDI initiative is addressing the problem that an application written for one phone must be rewritten again and again if it is to … Read more

A great summary of Public Resources about Mobile OSGi (courtesy of Jo Ritter, Mobile OSGi Blog). ceo

Wow… OPWV is selling it’s mobile browser and messaging business… Do you remember when OPWV was all the rave? Do you remember Phone.com and the Phone.com conference? Man, those were cool days. The early days, (late 1990s and early 2000s) when Mobile Web really got started; HDML, HTML, WAP, cHTML, the WAP gateway security gap. … Read more