One of the interesting things about the last 12-18 months is how the Cloud
has put power into the hands of consumers. What I mean by this is, imagine
the following scenario in the world pre-cloud:
"A user buys some software via the Internet or shrink-wrapped. It arrives and
they install it. It either does not work for them or they cannot figure out
how to use it so they basically write off the cash and don't use the app. End
of story."
Now let's look at what happens on Cloud:
"The user either buys an application from an app store (be it desktop or
mobile), or a holiday from a holiday store, and then decides either the
application is rubbish, the App does not work for them (or they have not
RTFM) or they have had a bad experience on holiday. The user then uses social
networks and/or the review forums on the app stores to comment on the bad
experience"
In the latte... (more)
Jim Liddle's Symbian Blog: Google Local For Mobile Using Ajax For Midlet!
It seems that Google have done it again, having brought Google local to the
mobile phone with a fairly sophisticated Midlet that also has Ajax support.
It is amazing what is in 38K of Midlet, and it is good to see Google pushing
the envelope on mobile like this. As per my comments previously on this
page, there already exists MGMaps which provides a J2ME interface to Google
Maps but it is not as slick as this. Check this out from Google here.
posted Saturday, 12 November 2005 4:30 PM EST
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Jim Liddle's Symbian Blog
Nice to see some of the more useful application content being made
available for J2ME - one of the things I missed on the K750i was a Streetmap
for when I managed to get lost (again) in London !! You can get the Jar
from here and the Jad from here
Interesting take on which phones are supported for Flashlite - check out this
Flickr page which has a picture of Flashlite running on the supported phones
- currently 83 in total ! Users are encouraged to post pictures of phones
that support flashlite that are not currently listed.
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MIDP on Dangers Hiptop Phone (which is now available in UK on TMobile)
According to Danger, MIDP support for the hiptop is supposed to be out "Real
Soon Now" but a specific date has not been pylbished yet. MIDP support will
get sent out to all current subscribers as an Over the air update.
For those considering porting MIDP applications or programming for the Hiptop
you could do no worse than check out the Sun Developer Netword article here.
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AJAX For Mobile Devices
« H » General J2ME :: Jim Liddle :: email link
Great overview of Ajax for mobile devices from Ajit Jaoka here - would urge
you to read it !
posted Thursday, 12 January 2006
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Jim is Managing Director of Jana Technology Services and UK Director of Sales and Operations for GigaSpaces. Jim is a regular blogger at SYS-CON.com, covering mobile, Grid, and Cloud Computing Topics.
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