Operators - Making or Breaking Mobility? TruPhone’s recent victory over the UK arm of T-Mobile highlights a continuing problem with mobile innovation. TruPhone’s excellent VoIP solution was seen as a threat to T-Mobile’s voice call revenue. In the same vein, US operators have forced several device manufacturers to supply crippled versions of their devices; this usually involves disabling WiFi capabilities to protect data traffic revenues.

In general Operators tend not to be at the cutting edge, at least not in Europe and the US. Part of the story is about protecting existing revenues. But it is not the whole story, as Operator’s tend to look for the mass market opportunities; those products or services that will be used by a high proportion of their customers. This inevitably means that innovative software solutions will catch them out, undercutting their existing revenue base.

With smartphones becoming a significant part of the mobile phone market and social networks making it easy for interesting new applications to find a strong following, the problem for operators is only going to get worse.

Operators could react by continuing to attempt to lock out these solutions or they could take a proactive approach and bring these solutions onboard. The approach taken by Orange through its partner program is perhaps one of the best in this regard, although other operators are taking a similar approach. Hopefully an open attitude will prevail and Operators will be the vanguards of mobility, not the courts. NEed more info for your Nokia N95? See this Suggested N95 App directory and this N95 News Listing

Ericsson and Texas Instruments to co-develop innovative 3G solutions for handset manufacturers - Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), the world's leading telecom supplier, and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN), the global leader in silicon solutions for wireless communications, today announce that the companies will form a strategic technology engagement to develop custom solutions

Topographic Maps of Finland Now Available For ViewRanger - Augmentra, a leading innovator in gps-enabled navigation software for smartphones, has released digital topographic maps of Finland for ViewRanger, it’s award-winning ViewRanger off-road mapping, navigation, tracking and information software.

Sybase iAnywhere Delivers Important Advances in Mobile Enterprise Collaboration and Securitys - With this release, Information Anywhere suite offers the most comprehensive support for extending enterprise email systems and IM platforms across the broadest range of mobile devices and smart phones, including the latest Windows Mobile 6.0 devices, such as the HTC S710 and the T-Mobile Dash, and Symbian-based devices, such as the Nokia Eseries and Sony Ericsson M600i and P990i series.

Symbian OS News updates

• Nokia N95 and Apple iPhone Raise the Bar for Mobile Multimedia


• Digital Chocolate to publish games for N-Gage platform


• Spotigo licences easy-to-use WiFi Connection Manager for Symbian to Golden Telecom


• Domain Registry, dotMobi, Provides Web Developers With Creation Tools


• Guidelines for the Future Success of Mobile TV


• Technical framework allows service providers to provide their own regional A-GPS services


• Applists.com Matches iPhone Simplicity to Bring Web Apps to Mobile Device


• Avaya Dual Mode Solution for Nokia Eseries Devices Increases Productivity of Mobile Workers


• Nokia Partners in France with Streamezzo to Develop the Ultimate Rich Media Mobile Platform


• Latest Titles From Symbian Press


• Call'n Cash - Make real money with advertisements on your mobile!


• WorldMate is now free for S60 devices - new Fremium Travel Service for mobile devices!

LBS News updates

• deCarta Raises $15 Million in Expansion Round of Funding


• Oracle Launches R&D Network for Asia Pacific & Japan


• Leading Supplier of Software Platforms for Location-Based Service Markets to Accelerate Growth


• Welcome to the sporty, rugged, GPS-enabled Trimble Nomad mobile handheld


• Mobile Video in the iPhone Era: Let the Boom Begin


• dotMobi to launch global mobile phone database for developer community

Interested in more LBS news and resources? Visit our friends at LBSzone.com

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The market for UIQ 3 applications is growing fast With the P990 smartphone, the M600 messaging device and the W950 Walkman(R), Sony Ericsson is opening up important new markets for mobile developers focusing on high end gaming and mobile productivity. The fact that most applications written for one phone will run on the other two, the dedicated developer support and the Sony Ericsson Application Shop are other reasons to develop for UIQ 3. http://developer.sonyericsson.com/symbian

COMMUNITY / DEVZONE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Forum Nokia issues 'Open C Challenge' to mobile applications developers worldwide - Nokia has announced the first 'Open C Challenge', a global contest for mobile application development for S60 on Symbian OS smartphones. $20,000 in cash and other prizes for developers using Nokia's Open C Plug-In to build or port open source applications for S60 smartphones

SNAP Mobile hunts for superstar developers with Mobile Multiplayer Games Competition - Today SNAP Mobile kicked off the Mobile Rules! Multiplayer Competition at the Develop Conference & Expo, a leading European event for gaming professionals. SNAP Mobile launched the game development contest to offer developers a unique, fast track way to break into the multiplayer games market and still retain the rights to their games.

Domain Registry, dotMobi, Provides Web Developers With Creation Tools - The official worldwide registry for the .mobi domain, dotMobi's Site Builder, powered by mobiSiteGalore, has provided the web development community with resources designed to foster the growth of high-quality content for those who utilize mobile phones to access the Internet.

Broadcom Joins S60 Community to Deliver Complete Solutions for World's Most Popular Mobile Open OS - New Relationship Enables Broadcom to Target Over 50 Million New Devices per Year With 3G Cellular Processors, Mobile, Application Processors, Low Power W-Fi(R), Bluetooth(R) and GPS Solutions.

Most Popular Cameraphone Stats June 07 - Nokia, Sony Ericsson Top Flickr Camerphone uploads - Interesting to note that on the popular social networking photo upload site Flickr the top camera-enabled mobile device used by flickr users in June 07 is the Nokia N75 - the Sony Ericsson K800i is a close second and the Nokia 95 even squeakes in the list!

From Sony Ericsson Developer World...

• Getting Started with the UIQ 3 platform, Part 6
• Flash Lite development using Adobe Device Central
• Sony Ericsson Themes Creator - Mac OS
• New three soft key layout for K850, W910 and Z750 phones
• Reporting from Beijing, Sony Ericsson Developer World live in China

New at Forum.Nokia...

• Extensions plug-in package for S60 3rd Edition SDK for Symbian OS, for C++, MR, Version 4
• Extensions plug-in package for S60 3rd Edition SDK for Symbian OS, for C++, supporting Feature Pack 1, Version 1
• Series 60 Developer Platform 1.0: Remote Camera Example v1.0
• S60 Platform: Custom UI and Screen Rotation Example

New in the SymbianOne Downloads...

• Twango - mobile photo sharing
• TextQuick
• Frozen Bubble S60 3
• Expenses S60
• SoundSnap - free sounds

CAREERS

The SymbianOne Career Center - Browse the current opportunities available for wireless developers and symbian programmers. Don't see a job you like? Looking for a developer? Send details to us at SymbianOne and we'll list your announcement right here in the newsletter... best of all this is a FREE service.

• Delphi Developer - At least 3 years of professional development experience. Expert knowledge of Delphi.• Excellent problem solving abilities.
• Multimedia Design Lecturer
• C++ Developer
• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Developer
• Symbian developers required for top 5 handset manufacturer
• WAP Programmer. Coding Free Cell Phone Search Engine

Have you visited the SymbianOne Symbian Freeware Repository Yet?
More than 150 Apps & Growing!

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Symbian OS Software Applications for the Nokia E60

Suggested Application... Handy Tools Pro for S60 - Handy Safe software for S60 smartphones is a perfect assistant for secure and convenient data managing. Keep your mind free from countless numbers and letters. Have all of your important information in one place, safe, easy to access, and always with you with Handy Safe software for S60.

• ProfiMail (Symbian)
• WorldMate Professional for Series 60
• IM+ All-in-One Messenger AIM/iChat, MSN/Live Messenger, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk for S60
• fring - free mobile voip (PC installer) - Talk & Chat for Free to Skype, GTalk, MSN & fring contacts
• X-plore

The NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge – Europe
This global program challenges application developers around the world to build innovative location-based services (LBS) that work with mobile phones and/or wireless handheld devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ maps.

WiMax World 2007
September 2007 will mark the fourth annual WiMAX World Conference & Expo.
Chicago, IL, Sept. 25-27, 2007

WiMax World 2007
September 2007 will mark the fourth annual WiMAX World Conference & Expo.
Chicago, IL, Sept. 25-27, 2007

Mobile Location Enabled Services 2007 conference
Learn how to expand your profit potential at Mobile Location Enabled Services 2007 conference - a high quality forum for the industry players to meet, discuss and plot the path to mass profits for mobile location enabled services.

Wireless Enterprise Symposium2007
Created exclusively for BlackBerry Solution Administrators, Developers and end-users, this year’s conference offers an unbeatable range of topics on BlackBerry and other wireless technologies.

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