Intel and Nokia have joined forces hoping to beat back fierce competition from Apple, Google and Microsoft in the mobile space with a new Linux-based OS called MeeGo.
The new platform is a merger of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo OSes and will support multiple hardware architectures across mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems, the two companies say.
The Ovi Store will be the channel to market for apps and content for all Nokia devices, including MeeGo and Symbian-based, with Forum Nokia providing developer support across all Nokia device platforms. The Intel AppUpSM Center will be the path to market for Intel-based MeeGo devices from other device manufacturers, with the Intel Atom Developer Program providing support for apps targeting devices in a variety of categories.
Twenty-seven of the world’s largest telecom operators and device manufacturers are launching an open global alliance, they say will make it easier for developers to market their mobile apps and provide access the widest range of apps and services to as many customers as possible worldwide.
The Wholesale Applications Community, as the group calls itself, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the aim of building “an environment where innovative apps can be developed irrespective of device or technology.”
It’s purpose, the group announced is to…
…create a ‘wholesale applications community’ that will establish a simple route to market for developers, in turn, providing access to the latest and widest range of innovative applications and services to as many customers as possible worldwide. This alliance will deliver scale unparalleled by any application distribution ecosystem in existence today.
The alliance is inviting players from across the ICT industry, not only operators and developers, but also handset manufacturers and Internet players to join forces.
Apparel-maker Dockers and app developer Shazam have collaborated on a TV spot that will air during the upcoming Super Bowl that makes TV clickable like digital media.
Here’s the idea: Viewers will watch a specially prepared TV spot, launch the Shazam app installed on their smartphones or other mobile devices, tag the spot’s soundtrack and automatically link to a branded-content Web site where they can read about Dockers’ “Wear the Pants” campaign and enter a khaki pants giveaway.
The TV commercial will first air Feb. 7 on CBS and then run throughout 2010 on a variety of shows and networks.
The specially created soundtrack for the spot, which is performed by the actors featured in the ad, was inspired by the song “I Wear no Pants” by The Poxy Boggards, a 13-man band who perform original and traditional songs.
Dockers’ “Wear the Pants” global ad campaign launched in December 2009 and is integrated with broadcast, print, billboard, radio, social media, events and digital marketing.
Apple has been knocking around for nearly 25 years the idea of building the iSlate, iTablet or iwhatchamacallit, which is rumored to debut this week.
frog design, a much-respected industrial design firm, rummaged through its archives and came up with photos of tablet prototypes it developed for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs back in the early ‘80s.
Market researchers at Distimo, an app store analytics firm housed in the Netherlands just launched Appstores.info, an app store portal to every app store Distimo follows.
Distimo divided the marts into four types: Device Manufacturers such as Apple and Ovi; developers such as Android and Windows Mobile, operators such as Verizon and Sprint; and independents such [...]
eBay says iPhone/iPod touch shoppers went crazy over the holiday season . The number of items bought via eBay’s free mobile app this year was triple last year’s holiday volume. In 2009, eBay buyers and sellers are generating more than half a billion dollars of mobile transactions. Nearly 6 million people have eBay’s app [...]
At the same time Nokia was running down financial results at its annual Capital Markets Day event, the company said it would focus on its Devices & Services priorities for 2010 including:
Provide better tools to third-party developers to create apps and content for the Ovi ecosystem
Improve the user experience
Re-engineer the Symbian user interface; deliver [...]
I think augmented reality for smartphones like the iPhone 3GS is very, very cool. Now, comes Twitter 360, a new app that enables you to visualize your Twitter friends who are located near you using AR (it works in combination with the iPhone’s camera).
It’s one of the first apps to use Twitter’s new geotagging [...]
Google announced today the overall winners in the second-annual Android Developer Challenge. These winners were selected after two rounds of scoring by thousands of Android users and a panel of judges.
See the official page for a complete list of all the winners and for more information about the challenge. Meanwhile, straight from Google’s pages [...]
Forbes Magazine named the Pizza Hut iPhone app the #1 Branded Mobile Application of 2009 in an article released this week.
In 2009, the Pizza Hut iPhone app also was named the winner of two MMA awards for Best Mobile Display Campaign and Best Emerging Technology Campaign in North America, as well as an [...]
