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Mobile Salesforce.com solutions

Jim Liddle — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:31:00 GMT

On of the US's major industry prizes is the Codie Awards. Two products that were entered in the Mobile Computing Category this year where both mobile Salesforce.com solutions.

The first was from Vettro with its rainmaker product. Editions of Vettro RainMaker are available for BlackBerry, Palm Treo, Windows Mobile, and Symbian.

The second product that also supports mobile Salesforce.com access is by Sendia, offering similar mobile salesforce features.

Having the ability to be able to access and enter mobile data in personal devices, that increasingly have Wi-Fi support, is just a no-brainer. If you have a sales team that uses Salesforce.com you should really look at both of these products.

New ways emerging to add value to mobile phones

Jim Liddle — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:52:00 GMT

Thanks to a ground breaking new system in Japan Mobile phone owners will be able to click for more information on building, signs and even on people simply by pointing their handset at them ! This would be similar to the same way website link are clicked on for more details.

Mapion local search allows people to point at what they want more information on, in the real world, from their mobile phone. How is it done ? By combining satellite navigation and sensors to determine what someone is pointing at.

The company that designed the technology is GeoVector. Patrick Bray from GeoVector says that "the phone know where the user is via GPS, and know the direction the user is pointing to thanks to a heading sensor. It send this information to our servers, where the billboard location and information are stored." Brays colleague, Arron Judson adds "the building needs no special beacons, barcodes, or other identifying solutions, we just need to know the location. There are many databases of location being developed, such as Google Local, Yahoo! Maps, MSN MapPoint, Amazon A9."

See a demo here

OnSpeed Mobile now launched

Jim Liddle — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:19:00 GMT

Onspeed Mobile is now launched - As discussed in my previous blog entry, Onspeed mobile speeds up web browsing from Java enabled mobiles. Sign up for a trial here

Mobile Flickr

Jim Liddle — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:24:00 GMT

Check out the mobile version of Flickr - seems mobile services are coming thick and fast....http://www.flickr.com/mob/.

Do you use Bloglines ?

Jim Liddle — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:11:00 GMT

Bloglines is an aggregator for RSS, with a twist in that it is web based, and through it you manage and view your feeds. Great if you are at a desktop you may say, but what if I am out and about on my mobile device ? On trains, in cards and the like is when you really get time to read the feeds ? Well...in that case you you will be happy fellow because now you can use Bloglines mobile at http://bloglines.com/mobile.

And not only can you access Bloglines on your mobile device but it it automatically keeps track of which articles that you read. That means you can switch back and forth between the mobile version and the full version when you’re at your computer.

Full Bloglines can be found at http://www.bloglines.com/.

Tried Google Mobilizer Yet ?

Jim Liddle — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:51:00 GMT

Another slick service from Google for mobile users - go to Google mobilizer, enter your URL and Google reformats the page for mobile devices on the fly- its fast and it does a pretty good job too - try it yourself at http://www.google.com/gwt/n.

Access Google News from your mobile

Jim Liddle — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:46:00 GMT

Google have launched Google News for mobile devices - use this URL for Google News.

Access your del.icio.us bookmarks from your mobile device

Jim Liddle — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:39:00 GMT

If you use del.icio.us and you want easy access from your mobile then visit http://mobilicio.us

VPN software for Series 60 and Pocket PC Phone / Windows Mobile

Jim Liddle — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:17:00 GMT

You may remember a product called MovianVPN which you could use to enable a VPN connection from a mobile device to such endpoints as Cisco VPN's. At some point this was withdrawn and only available as an enterprise sale. Well recently whilst getting frustrated whilst on the move trying to keep email in synch' from the different clients I have, I decided to see if there was anything else available. Imagine my surprise when I found that AnthaVPN is basiclly MovianVPN re-incarnated. You can see the feature list here.

S60 port of Python language now available on SourceForge

Jim Liddle — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:10:00 GMT

PyS60, the Python programming language for S60 is now available here(7.23 MB) from Sourceforge.

Yahoo free mobile services for Series 60

Jim Liddle — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:48:00 GMT

The Series 60 application lets you use most of your existing Yahoo account features, such as email (which supports push), instant messaging, and uploading photos. This really is amazing software and I would recommend you download it if you have a series 60 phone. Get it here

How to send an MMS using JSR 205

Jim Liddle — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:33:00 GMT

Great example of How to creat an MMS client with midlet source code here from Sony Ericsson

Nokia 9300i announced

Jim Liddle — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:24:00 GMT

Nokia have announced the 9300i here. It incorporates E-GPRS (EDGE) and WLAN 802.11g connectivity, and support for a broad range of enterprise email solutions (including BlackBerry Connect, IBM WebSphere, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Seven Always-On Mail and Visto Mobile). The Nokia 9300i runs on Symbian OS v7.0s and Series 80 v2.0. Planned availability is Q1 2006.

UIQ Technology presents the new UIQ 3 software platform

Jim Liddle — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:30:00 GMT

London, UK, October 10, 2005 – UIQ Technology today released the first public version of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for UIQ 3, its latest version of the software platform, based on Symbian OS. At the same time, Sony Ericsson today announced its latest contribution to the smartphone evolution, the Sony Ericsson P990, which will be the first UIQ 3 based mobile phone coming to market. Software developers around the world can now start creating new, innovative applications for the next generation smartphone.

The recently launched UIQ 3 platform is an open software platform, based on Symbian OS, allowing developers to potentially target all UIQ 3 based phones from different manufacturers, using one single codeline. Applications will automatically receive the look and feel of the device they run on without the need for the developer to write extra code for it. Updates and bug fixes will be identical for all target platforms, and only one code update is needed to propagate it to all UIQ 3 based handsets. Developers will benefit from shorter time-to-market since code written for UIQ 3 will be identical through all handsets, unless device specific features have been used.

Manufacturer specific extensions and application programming interfaces (API’s) can be added to UIQ 3, allowing developers to take advantage of special features, to optimize their applications for specific phones in order to improve interaction and to use the full potential of the phone.

The Sony Ericsson P990 is the first smartphone to utilize the new UIQ 3 platform. Built on Symbian OS v9.1, the P990 is based on the same proven concept and recognizable form factor as previous Sony Ericsson smartphones, allowing developers to create powerful, touch screen-based applications in C++, or in Java™ for both flip open and flip closed modes. UIQ 3 is a flexible software platform that provides a unique opportunity for code-reuse in application development.

Developers are encouraged to register with the new UIQ Developer Program, also announced today, at http://developer.uiq.com to find more detailed documentation such as a getting started tutorial and participate in the first UIQ 3 discussion forum. On October 26, 2005, the first public beta release of the UIQ 3 SDK will be available for download from the UIQ Developer Program portal.

Sony Ericsson specific extensions and beta API’s will be available from Sony Ericsson Developer World at www.SonyEricsson.com/developer during Q4 2005. The extension package will include the Sony Ericsson specific Vibration API and Bluetooth Keyboard API as well as emulator components such as fonts and skins.

UIQ Technology and Sony Ericsson both participate in the Symbian Smartphone Show 2005 on 11-12 October at the ExCeL Centre in London. You will find UIQ Technology in booth number 40, where you can sign up for the new UIQ Developer Program. The first 500 to do so will receive a CD containing a limited preview edition of the UIQ 3 SDK. Sony Ericsson is headline sponsor of the show and can be found demonstrating the smartphone evolution and offering Tech Support Live! to developers in booth number 124.

FOR PRESS INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Sony Ericsson Corporate Communications
Telephone: +44 (0) 208 762 5858
E-mail: press.global@SonyEricsson.com

Developer media inquiries:
PetersGroup Public Relations
Emilie Fennell
+1-512-794-8600
emile@petersgroupPR.com

UIQ Technology
Sebastien Peirone
Developer Communications Manager
+46 (0) 708 57 6448
E-mail: sebastien.peirone@uiq.com

About UIQ Technology

UIQ Technology develops and licenses an open software platform to the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and supports licensees in the drive towards developing a mass market for open mobile phones. UIQ based phones are powerful and give access to enterprise applications, email, multimedia clips and web pages. UIQ is for example used in mobile phones from Sony Ericsson, Motorola, BenQ and Arima. UIQ Technology, established 1999 in Sweden, is a fully owned subsidiary of Symbian Ltd. www.uiq.com

About Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB serves the global communications market with innovative and feature-rich mobile phones, accessories, PC-cards and M2M solutions. Established as a joint venture by Ericsson and Sony in 2001, with head quarters in London, the company employs 5,000 people worldwide, including R&D sites in Europe, Japan, China and America. For more information, please visit www.SonyEricsson.com

Opera releases Opera Platform development Platform

Jim Liddle — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:37:00 GMT

Opera purports to enable true web applications to be developed that have access to the phone's functionality through the Opera Platform DOM interface (provided by the Application Player) and can communicate with servers using XMLHttpRequest. The Opera Platform SDK is currently available for Symbian OS phones with S60, and is free. See here for more details.

Run any program in Flip closed mode on P900 / P910

Jim Liddle — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:24:00 GMT

Every now and again someone releases a program that is really useful. This is one such program. It allows you to run any program in flip closed mode for the Sony P series, whether the program supports it or not - great !!

Beta of UIQ Software V3 development Kit available

Jim Liddle — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:48:00 GMT

The first beta of the UIQ 3 software development kit is available here from the UIQ development Portal

Symbian Signed Freeware Route to Market

Jim Liddle — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:36:00 GMT

As of October 2005 Developers who develop freeware applications can get their applications "signed" without having to pay commercial test fees to Symbian LTD - great idea and great programme - download the eligibility details here for more information

P950i Hermione Link

Jim Liddle — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:16:00 GMT

It seems the original link I posted about he P950i was taken down - you can find more details on this here and here

Mobile P2P client for UIQ

Jim Liddle — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:13:00 GMT

Interesting...I've often thought that as devices become more powerful and bandwidth becomes more prevalent that Peer to Peer from a Smart Device makes more sense.

You can download MobileDC (direct connect) from here. This supports UIQ phones such as P800, P900, P910 etc.