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Online televisions are small applications mostly made for websites. Some of them have a version for mobile phones, but the number of users is not very important for the market right now. No matter you are a student or some film professional, video on demand is a cheap solution to sell your productions. I will talk about a Video On Demand setup with streaming facilities and no movie download. The requirements are: Continue Reading »

MySpace, Facebook, AdultSpace, Orkut or Hi5 deliver thousands of pages every second. Many other applications were recently enhanced with social networking aspects (one of the biggest is Yahoo!). I wonder sometimes why every website tries to promote a social aspect, even the blogs through comments and syndication links.

Websites owner use psychology to exploit or influence consumer and they are doing this maybe without know it. Every time we find a new way to communicate, we try it. Phone calls, chat or websites bring people together. Continue Reading »

I found some rumors about a not so far release of PAMP for S60. What PAMP stands for? The answer is very simple: Personal Apache, MySQL, PHP. The release and demonstration of PAMP capabilities will be made in January 2008 at the CCNC conference in Las Vegas.

I also found PAMP was tested on Nokia E90 and worked well but some problems with memory consumption must be solved. The platform will support LAMP based applications and will provide access to the core functionality of the phone. Continue Reading »

I am a developer and I always want to maximize customer satisfaction. Any project manager should take care of customer satisfaction. Let me “sell” you few tips about how to maximize their effort.

First of all you have to understand that working with programmers is very difficult because they tend to be very individualistic people. That’s why, as a customer, always communicate only with the project manager. Try to be friendly and approachable, request as many details as possible and try to avoid questions like “Isn’t ready yet? Why it takes so long?”. Treat the team as a partner. It’s very important to like you. The quality of the application depends on it. Continue Reading »

Do you have a good idea and you want to build a mobile application? Google helps you and much more then that: Google pays you! With the Google’s $10 million bounty put on application development for Android, development teams can penetrate the market. Intellectual property rights will be retained by developers but they have to grant Google a license for testing, evaluations and Android platform promotion.

Good news so far, but please answer my question: Is Google strong enough to compete with Symbian (72.4% market share), Linux (13.3% market share), Windows Mobile (6.1% market share) or RIM (5.3% market share)? Continue Reading »