I’m at the Symbian Partner Event in San Francisco today. I’m hoping to learn more about what the open source Symbian OS will look like. I’m particularly interested in whether it will be complete enough that OEMs and hackers can relatively easily slap it on existing hardware. The full open source code release is still 18 months a way so I suspect details will be scarce but if I hear anything I’ll pass it along. I’m live blogging this using … Continue reading
Symbian is holding a Partner Event in San Francisco on December 4th. Traditionally these been restricted to Symbian Ltd licenses, but now they are open to the mobile community without charge. This comes after Nokia purchased Symbian Ltd earlier this year and turned its assets over to the new non-profit Symbian Foundation which will open source the entire OS under the Eclipse Public License. Current plans are for an initial release of substantial parts of Symbian in the first half … Continue reading
Updated: Added link to slides from presentation by Taptu’s Stefan Butlin – 13-Nov-2008. This is the second part of my wrap up from yesterday’s Mobile Web 2.0 event. The first part covered the morning business track. The business track continued in the afternoon but I chose to attend the afternoon developer or “Builder” Track. Caroline Lewko started things off with a welcome and some tips on marketing applications. Caroline urged developers to sell through as many channels as possibe and … Continue reading
Today was the 3rd annual Mobile2.0 Event in San Francisco. This is my favorite mobile conference, fast paced, intimate and with a no PowerPoint rule! Mobile 2.0 always seems to draw the best presenters and the attendees are a nice balance of developers and entrepreneurs from the Americas, Europe and Asia. This year’s event was no exception. Kudos to the organizers: Daniel Appelquist from Vodafone; Gregory Gorman, Tertius; Mike Rowehl, Skyfire, Peter Vesterbacka, Some Bazaar and Mobile Monday and Rudy … Continue reading
Yesterday I went to a talk on HTML5 that Opera Software presented at San Francisco State University as part of its University Tours program. There were about 30 other attendees, almost all of them students. Opera’s Anne van Kestern was the main speaker who spoke on HTML5 which is now a draft W3C standard and has partial support in all the major browsers except IE. HTML5 has a lot of cool stuff like the open standards video player built into … Continue reading
My favorite one day mobile conference, Mobile 2.0 will be held in San Francisco on November 3rd. I’ve attended the last two Mobile 2.0 conferences and consider it a don’t miss event. What’s so great about Mobile 2.0? It’s an affordable ($250) , intimate (a few hundred attendees) gathering that always features a great selection of speakers. Here’s a partial list of this years panelists and speakers: Russ McGuire, VP, Strategy, Sprint Ozzie Diaz, Chief Technologist, Wireless, HP Tatsuki Tomita, … Continue reading
Today was the last day of CTIA and Caroline Lewko of Wireless industry Partnership (WIP) hosted a Mobile Jam Session for Developers. Caroline is getting famous for these events which she also threw this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and at CTIA in Las Vegas. I was at today’s event and I have to say the praise is well deserved. The Mobile Jam Session’s motto was “No ppt, no ties, no panels” which makes it sound sort of … Continue reading
I attended Mobile Web Megatrends today in Berkeley. The one day conference was organized by Ajit Jaokar and included an amazing 18 presentations packed into one day of total mobile web immersion. A highlight of the day was meeting a couple of mobile experts, bloggers and authors I’ve enjoyed reading for years, Barbara Ballard and Michael Mace. There were a lot of great talks and Q&A at the conference. It’s impossible for me to cover them all in even a … Continue reading