Amazon sends ‘welcome packet’ to prospective app store devs
There's now little doubt that Amazon -- for reasons that may or may not be borne of sound mind -- is hard at work setting up its own app store ecosystem for Android devices. We've got a tiny bit more evidence of that today in the form of the complete welcome kit being sent out to prospective developers; there's not anything too mind-boggling in here, but let's break down some of the key points: From the wording, there's no question that the system is exclusive to Android -- at least initially
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app store, critical, digital, ecosystem, holidays, materials, packaging-tool, promotional, prospective, result
Rogers, Ericsson turn Ottawa into an LTE trial playground
Rogers is breaking LTE out of the confines of its labs for the first time with the announcement today that it's flipping the switch on a trial network in Ottawa -- a place where infrastructure partner Ericsson conveniently just happens to have some facilities. The 4G network won't be open to customers yet, but it seems like that'll be a relatively small step -- in the Ottawa area, anyway -- once all the technical issues have been ironed out.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 700mhz, announcement, confines, critical, critical-step, deployment, ericsson, flipping, lte, rogers, technical
Nokia N900 Maemo / MeeGo dual boot ‘will come at some point,’ but not next firmware
Quim Gil of Nokia's Maemo team has dropped some knowledge on the folks chatting up the upcoming MeeGo release in the official Maemo forums, and it sounds like there are at least a couple critical points to be aware of for N900 owners and would-be ROM flashers when the first developer preview drops next week.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: couple-critical, critical, Dualboot, flashers, importance, initial, maemo, nokia, official, points, result, Rotation, the-importance, update