Jim Liddle

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)

Jim Liddle's Symbian Blog: Are These Black Days for BlackBerry?

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)

Changing Nature of Web 2.0

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 gets it right but is all on his own

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)

The Rise of the Cloud Data Aggregators

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)