In the wireless world, there are a variety of operating systems for developers, such as Quickoffice, to pursue. The list includes Android, Bada, BlackBerry, iOS, MeeGo, Symbian, and also, webOS. The last, webOS, is being more closely watched than ever, especially since HP bought Palm, which originally developed the elegant platform...

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As some of you long-time Quickoffice fans may know, we have a strong heritage and relationship with Nokia. We first started developing our award-winning mobile office productivity solutions for Symbian devices and continue to innovate on this platform. We feel very fortunate to work closely with Nokia and are excited about our latest partnership with them in the Ovi app store for its special summer promotion. Now until September 3, consumers have the opportunity to win a free Nokia smartphone by simply voting for their “Most Useful” application.

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Mobile consumers continue to have an insatiable appetite for faster wireless networking speeds and more data. Beyond looking for the latest, sexiest smartphone on the market, users are interested in the speed of their carrier’s network and its reliability, as this affects their ability to send emails and share photos, video or music. The largest US players remain spread across a variety of cellphone systems, including EDGE, 3G, LTE and WiMAX. However, there is a push to transition to the latest generation of 4G network speeds to satisfy customer demand...

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The question really is, who doesn’t want $100?! Well, Quickoffice is giving it away to one lucky winner on August 23. This week, we are not asking you to participate in the filming of Shark Week, or walk by a Coca-Cola machine, which the Washington Post names as a more dangerous killer. We aren’t asking you to clean up your nearest highway or walk across the Amazon.

We’re asking you to do something far less disgusting or dangerous.

We’re asking you to...

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An earlier blog post looked at the decisions some mobile application developers have to make when creating apps. The overarching theme the decision affects is the business of mobile applications. It’s a very lucrative business, as leading analyst firm Gartner predicted that mobile app store revenues will reach $6.2B in 2010. That’s certainly a lot of money to spread around the ecosystem, which partly consists of developers and the App Stores themselves.

It simply starts with an idea...

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A recent report from Vision Mobile brings up an interesting debate: When do you sacrifice speed to market versus quality versus mobile platform?

As a mobile developer, one will have to, at some point, decide when an app is ready for sale. The longer one waits, the more time consumers have to wait for needed functionality on devices, whether its an iPhone or BlackBerry phone. This also brings up another interesting decision that needs to be made by mobile developers: which platform? The iPhone? Android? BlackBerry? webOS? Symbian?

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For the time being, Android users are getting excited about Froyo (Android 2.2), the most recent update to the operating system. For now, only Nexus One users will be getting Froyo. The hope is that, within the next few months, other Android devices from the likes of Motorola, HTC and Samsung (to name a few) will be getting the update.

What makes it so great? Let’s have a look...

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Cisco seems to think so. Cisco had a major announcement last week, wanting to ride the momentum of the tablet craze with its Cisco Cius (pronounced see-us). According to CEO John Chambers, the Android-based tablet is ‘designed to work with video, collaboration and all of the cloud services in a seamless way that’s controlled by an enterprise’. Given how much energy Cisco is putting behind collaboration and tablets, the Cius is...

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New reports continue to surface, predicting the growth of the PC, tablet and netbook market. To cite a few recent reports, IDC predicts 19.8% growth in global PC shipments in 2010, with netbooks no longer driving the volume of sales as much as they recently have been. Forrester Research is forecasting that tablet sales in the US will overtake netbook sales by 2012, and desktop sales by 2013. Only laptops...

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As participants and keen followers of the mobile industry, it’s hard to escape the ongoing arguments between those who believe mobile applications will be dominated by client applications versus those who believe browser-based applications (web apps) will prevail. While most believe that client applications will maintain control for the next few years – and the vast and increasing numbers of client mobile applications attest to this belief – sentiment seems to shift when viewed over a longer time horizon. That is, many people suggest that advances in HTML5, broadband services and cloud-based content, coupled with the engineering efficiencies of client-less development, will fuel the shift to web apps over the longer term.

While I agree that web apps will become increasingly important over the long haul, I believe...

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