Midget widgets for mobile digits
Blog Betavine told me that all developers submitting widgets will also have an opportunity to make their entries available through the Vodafone Widget Manager Beta application, which is currently being rolled out across a range of ten S60 handsets in...
[February 12, 2009, 6:18]
LiMo sets standard for mobile Linux widgets
News The area of widget development in the mobile industry has thus far been proprietary and fragmented," Gillis said. Apple and Nokia have their own widget standards. The LiMo Foundation, a major mobile industry consortium devoted to spreading Linux...
[February 9, 2009, 14:18]
Vodafone 360 to debut on first LiMo handset
News The Joint Innovation Lab, JIL, is a collaborative effort between Vodafone, China Mobile, Softbank and Verizon, and has developed its own mobile widget platform. Vodafone is using the 360 launch to start a €1m prize fund, with up to €100,000 (£90...
[September 24, 2009, 17:50]
Freescale and ARM promise £140 netbooks
News Freescale has done group studies on the way people use the internet, Cammal said, and those studies suggested younger users were more keen on an "always-on, widget approach" than on using Windows. We believe our power-efficient solution, combined...
[January 5, 2009, 16:16]
Opera: Single-minded about widget development
News We work mostly through the W3C, which is where the widget standard per se is being worked on. The widget standard [as far as it has been established] is more about the packaging — on the relation of how you connect to the underlying device, it hasn...
[May 21, 2009, 17:19]
Nokia unveils beta SDK for Ovi app platform
News Developers can write applications using standard web technologies such as CSS, HTML and Javascript, much as they can when writing for Palm's WebOS or the Bondi widget specification. The SDK's availability was announced on Thursday at the Nokia...
[September 4, 2009, 12:58]
Hacked iPlayer for Symbian Series 60 in action
News The BBC's iPlayer video-on-demand widget was released on Wednesday for certain Symbian Series 60 handsets, such as the Nokia N96. The E71 is not officially supported and the application is only supposed to run over Wi-Fi, so as not to strain...
[October 3, 2008, 16:44]
RIM buys Torch Mobile browser company
Blog The company also has a web widget platform that can support Google Gadgets, Apple dashboard widgets and Yahoo widgets. Iris, which is based on the WebKit rendering engine, is currently available for Windows Mobile handsets.
[August 24, 2009, 17:51]
iPlayer on my E71... Win?
Blog ANOTHER BLOODY UPDATE: The video of the hacked widget in action is now up. Today's the day the BBC iPlayer launched on Series 60 - well, on certain Nokia handsets only. These would be the N78, N95 and N96.
[October 2, 2008, 16:33]
