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Digg founder says: Mobile Web is Next

Still looking for reasons to port your mobile application to the Android platform? This was found at www.siliconrepublic.com.

“We are on the verge of mobile application explosion,” Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg.com, tells siliconrepublic.com, and he credits devices like the iPhone for bringing a “true, full-featured computing experience to a small handheld device”.

Rose’s site www.digg.com was one of the first to create an iPhone-friendly version but he says that though mobile devices are the next big trend it is the internet that is driving changes in how people are accessing information with innovations like search, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), blogs and social networking as major catalysts.

“The tollbooths of information are being torn down: the cost of creating and distributing content is now so low that anyone can produce content and blast it out to the world.

“And you can access just about any type of content anywhere, so content is abundant and accessible.”

He says that the challenge now is sifting through the overwhelming amount of content we come across on a daily basis to find what is most interesting and relevant.

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Posted Thursday by Phil Manchester

Like it or not, Google has achieved something that none of the established knitting circles has managed so far; it has created a single target platform for developers to aim for. One early view of how you can build Android applications [link] illustrates this.

But a unified standard does not necessarily play well with the established mobile Linux players. The LiPS Forum [link] , for example, says it “regards OHA as complementary” and acknowledges [link] that Android and the OHA have confirmed the popularity of Linux in mobile and embedded applications. LiPS also says that Android shares in its mission “to reduce fragmentation among Linux-based mobile platforms” - only with a different approach. While LiPS aims to unify the development of mobile Linux through open standards, it sees the Android and OHA team as working to the same end with shared code.

Continue reading the article, Inside Google Android Paranoia

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Darren Waters, Technology editor for the BBC News website writes:

Google’s dominance of the web will not translate to the mobile phone market, a senior executive at Symbian has said.

John Forsyth, vice president of strategy at Symbian, the platform that powers many of the world’s phones, said Google lacked experience.

Google has formed an alliance with 33 firms to develop an open platform for mobile phones, called Android.

Meanwhile, the head of Nokia in the UK said the firm was in discussions with Google about using the platform.

Simon Ainslie, Nokia UK’s managing director, said: “We are always open to discussion and debate on that. We were not ready to make any commitment to it or discuss it at the time.”

“We are having ongoing discussions with Google.”

Continue reading, Symbian dismisses Google Android

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