Ebay Launches Mobile Site
Ebay has become on of the largest brands to launch a direct consumer mobile
strategy in launching its mobile site. Simply text "EBAY MOBILE" to 87222.
The SMS text message we send you will cost £0.10 (Vodafone users are charged
£0.12). When you receive the SMS, just select the URL in the message and it
will open in your phone's browser.
NetBeans IE 5.0 and Mobility Pack Beta Available
The beta version of NetBeans IDE 5.0 and Mobility Pack is available for free
download from the NetBeans website.
You can create end-to-end solutions, from J2ME and J2EE to mobile internet
web services (for example IPX, Ericsson’s Internet Payment eXchange)
using NetBeans IDE 5.0 and Mobility Pack. Several new features are being
offered, including an improved mobile client-to-web-application-connection
generator.
BBC Offers Simple Guide to RSS as It Grows U... (more)
Are These Black Days for BlackBerry?
Canadian firm Research in Motion, maker of the popular handheld phone device
that is BlackBerry, has been rocked by a 4 year old lawsuit that has
resurfaced. It is potentially so grave that industry watchers are openly
questioning the firms survival propsects. Gartner, for example, has warned
its customers to avoid deploying or investing in BlackBerry until the case is
settled.
The case goes back to 2002 when the intellectual property frim NTP launched a
lawsuit against RIM, the basis of which was a patent on a handheld email
device. The law... (more)
Jim Liddle's Blog
In the past if you cannot access the Internet then you cannot use your Web
2.0 applications. This model is rapidly changing. New pogramming models are
emerging that alllow Web 2.0 to be offline /online dependant on what is
needed.
The first of these is Adobe Apollo, which is a cross-platfrom technology that
combined Flash, HTML, PDF and JavaScript into one universal application
programming model / paradigm. What is unique is that id doesn’t care
if if it runs on its own or embedded in a webpage, the API calls remains the
same.
A competing project using t... (more)
Sarkozy, the French leader, is all on his own it seems in wanting to restrict
bankers bonuses, creating a campaign to ‘moralise capitalism’. He has
forced French banks to agree to a code of conduct by threatening to pull
French government business if they don’t agree. French banks have had to
agree to spread bonus payments over three years, with part paid out in
shares. There are also clawback clauses if business that is generated turns
sour and transparency on how bonuses are paid.
All sensible stuff ! Where does the British government stand on this ?
Remarkably silent….why am ... (more)
As storing data in the cloud becomes increasingly more normal users will
increasingly find themselves in the position of needing to access different
types of data regularly. To this end we are starting to see a new breed of
applications and services which themselves provide a service that interacts
with data stored on the cloud. The challenge is that services that sell
their products or service based on data access are in the position of having
to choose which data services to support.
This is further exacerbated in the cloud storage space as there is no
ubiquitous API (see pr... (more)