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Nokia wants to see greater mobile app innovation, launches competition

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nokia.pngNokia is calling application developers in the UK to create more innovative mobile software for its handsets, across five categories including social location, business and productivity, communications and social networking, games, and “just for fun”.

The developer who wins each category will get £2,500 and his or her app published to the Ovi Store, while the overall winner gets £20,000, expenses paid entry to a Nokia developer event in Spring 2010 plus sponsorship to become an Ovi Store publisher plus a one-year membership to Forum Nokia Launchpad. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 24, 2009 @ 8:20 am

Is Apple afraid of high definition video?

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apple-new-video-ipod-nanoYesterday’s new product announcements from Apple included the upgraded iPod nano with a built-in video camera that’s capable of shooting VGA (640×480) quality footage at 30fps.

Whilst the YouTube generation is likely to love this, it’s another example of Apple no longer innovating but lagging behind.

I say this as an Apple fanboy, though perhaps not as much a one as I used to be.

Remember the days when Apple were the first to either add a feature as standard to their equipment (CD burner on Macs) or bring hardware to the masses (iPod)? It seems that Apple is doing this less now.

Apple may well believe that video is the in thing right now, but as far as I’m concerned it’s been “in” for a few years, and not just amongst early adopters. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 10, 2009 @ 9:45 am