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20 Apr 09: 20th MobileMonday Taipei – Windows shopping: the future of Windows Marketplace for …

MobileMonday Taipei20 April 2009 at 16:00–18:00Mary’s Bistro Cafe, 2F, No.89, Sec.2, Ren-ai Rd. Microsoft plans to launch an App Store that lets Windows Mobile users find, purchase, and download programs directly from the phones. It’ll work much like the iPhone App Store and the upcoming BlackBerry App World. Microsoft will take a 30% cut on the sales of any paid applications. That’s the same fee that Apple charges, although Research in Motion keeps just 20%. Although Windows Marketplace will only works for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7, and it will be launched later this year. It seems that …

Taipei

20th MobileMonday Taipei – Windows shopping: the future of Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

Microsoft plans to launch an App Store that lets Windows Mobile users find, purchase, and download programs directly from the phones. It’ll work much like the iPhone App Store and the upcoming BlackBerry App World. Microsoft will take a 30% cut on the sales of any paid applications. That’s the same fee that Apple charges, although Research in Motion keeps just 20%. Although Windows Marketplace will only works for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7, and it will be launched later this year. It seems that because of the success of iPhone and its app store, everyone is trying …

Lisbon

3rd meeting slides

Following last meeting, here’s the slides for Paulo Glórias talk: iphone-livetv_momopt. Diogo Caldeira Pires, “smile, it’s monday”, is available on prezi. I would like to thank all that showed up and stayed for dinner, but specially to Paulo and Diogo for starting the debate afterwords.

Lisbon

Virgin Mobile Cuts Price Of Unlimited Plan To $50; Does Not Include Data

Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) has cut the price of its unlimited calling plan down to $50 from $80, joining the US’s second-tier carriers in a prepaid price war, reports AP. The new plan rolls out April 15, and according to Virgin spokesperson Jayne Wallace the move was “definitely a response to the marketplace.”

Lisbon

Recession will cut mobile entertainment growth in half

Unless key markets emerge from recession, user spending on mobile entertainment services will slow dramatically, increasing by nearly $13 billion over the next five years according to a forecast issued by market analysis firm Juniper Research, which previously predicted pre-downturn growth of $26 billion. Other findings from the report include: • Mobile TV is likely […]

Lisbon

Develop Conference 2009

There is going to be a Develop Conference and Expo in England. The event takes place from July 14th to 16th at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton. The main focus this year will be the Evolvove conference track, which looks at game development for new platforms including mobile, iPhone, Android and XBLA, new technologies and […]