I’m going to be shifting episodes around — I apologise — so don’t worry if, for example, you see Episode 81 followed by Episode 86 — this is just because I’m having to check that the content I’m about to publish is accurate.

o2 Litmus, the application developer community for Telefonica’s o2, is running an iPhone Developer competition. Called The App Showdown, the competition offers a £10,000 prize to the winning application developer. The judges, well… they’re not an esteemed panel of mobile gods or mobile executives. Instead — and interestingly — the judging panel is going to [...]

There’s a rather interesting story on ChubbyBrain regarding venture funding for iPhone application developers (via Johannes). They calculate that 17 iPhone application startups have received $102.49m as of the end of June 2009 (over two years). Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, the Silicon Valley titan, has reportedly invested the most — $50m across 6 startups. [...]

It’s no surprise that the Symbian Foundation are keen to meet iPhone developers. No surprise at all. The big problem is for iPhone Developers who want to meet and find out more about the Symbian Foundation. The website just isn’t good enough yet. You can’t watch a 3 minute video on their website and deliver [...]

Before the joy that is the Apple’s worldwide developer conference begins this morning here in San Francisco, I thought it might be useful to take a look at some stats from AdMob‘s April Metrics Report (PDF). Last month AdMob served 7.5 billion ads globally — with 250 million of those in the UK alone. How [...]

I think it was Mick from GasBag who presented at Mobile Monday Silicon Valley last night. GasBag is an iPhone application showing the gas (“petrol”) prices in your area. He explained that they had been experimenting with their maps interface and found a more elegant manner of displaying information with their own implementation, as apposed [...]

Goodness me it’s getting interesting in the mobile industry. For years I’ve been screaming with utter annoyance at the absolute rubbish Sony Ericsson has been vomiting into the marketplace. Their devices are amongst the nicest engineered on the planet. They’re well built, stylish, reliable and the cameras are simply amazing. But the dumb operating system [...]

I didn’t bother signing up for Wakoopa when I heard about it a while ago. I thought it was a cool concept — track the desktop applications you’re using (along with ‘web applications’) and then publish the data to let you track what your friends are using. Now and again I’ve found myself on some [...]

I just published Vodafone’s news regarding their ‘app store’ initiative — and I’m already getting questions and reaction in from developers. Here are some quotes right off the press from some mobile developers. (I have removed names). – “I’d like to know how much of my revenues they’ll demand.” – “I like the ease of [...]