Welcome to the 97th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists! This week’s Carnival is hosted at the VisionMobile Forum. It’s been another...

In a surprise announcement last week, Motorola agreed to buy 50% of UIQ Holdings from Sony Ericsson. Pending regulatory approval,...

The cat’s out of the bag. Google is creating an operating system for mobile phones, according to mainstream news media. A phone OS would...

The GNU GPLv3 license, successor to the pervasive GPLv2 license, was published in June 2007. Following publication several discussions...

[last part of the series on five traits of open source and its impact in the mobile industry. See also part 1, part 2, part 3 and part...

[part 4 of the series on five traits of open source and its impact in the mobile industry. See also part 1, part 2 and part 3.] Open...

[part 3 of the series on five traits of open source and its impact in the mobile industry. See also part 1 and part 2.] Linux is by far...

[The Msearchgroove mobile advertising podcast series and close collaboration with VisionMobile continues with a look at ad-funded content...

[part 2 of the series on five traits of open source and its impact in the mobile industry. See also part 1] Open source is in many ways...

[Over the next two weeks leading to the Informa’s open source conference, I ‘ll be looking at five traits which characterise open source...

[The Msearchgroove exclusive mobile advertising podcast series in close cooperation with VisionMobile continues with AdMob CEO & Founder...

Continuing with our mobile advertising podcast series, we take a look at Millennial Media, the cross-platform mobile advertising company...

i-mode, once the mobile industry’s role model for data services has been dealt with three swift blows in July from O2, KPN and Telstra....

GPLv3 is the latest incarnation of the Free Software Foundation s (FSF) GNU General Public License (GPL), published in June 2007. Its...

Adobe’s Flash Lite has a enviable history of market penetration. Starting from DoCoMo handsets in May 2003, Flash Lite is quickly...

As an analyst working inside the mobile industry I ‘ve witnessed to hubbub of cheering, admiration and idolatry for the iPhone in the...

Mobile software vendors (ISVs) who develop software for mobile handsets are competing in an increasingly crowded market; on-device...

We recently researched and authored an extensive research paper on the subject of active idle screens; that is, the technology that turns...

The history book of the mobile handset industry has gone through two turbulent chapters to date; the first na ve years of manufacturer...

Welcome to the 75th Carnival of the Mobilists ! This week’s edition is brought to you by Hampus Jakobsson and Andreas Constantinou at the...