I know the blog is about mobile and open source, but I bumped into this story of an Italian developer (on the New York Times...) and I could not avoid to write about it ;-) The story is about Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni, a former Senior Software Engineering Lead at Adobe in San Francisco, who moved back to Italy and started a company called Balsamiq. His company is actually a "Micro-ISV" or a singl...

Adobe has released a public beta of CoCoMo, which is a hosted service for developers to add VoIP, video conferencing, and other collaboration features to apps constructed using Adobe Flex developer tools. At the Adobe Max developer conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, said: “Our view is there should be a balance of each;

In yet another case of successful Bluetooth mobile marketing campaign, Intera Group, Inc., a leading provider of out-of-home advertising and telecommunication services, announced the success of its partnership with RocketBoat in delivering special offers and promotions to visitors at San Francisco’s PIER 39 directly to their Bluetooth mobile devices. RocketBoat is a high-speed, 30-minute thr...

Intera Group, Inc., a provider of out-of-home advertising and telecommunication services, provided some information over the weekend regarding the success of its partnership with RocketBoat in “delivering special offers and promotions” to visitors at San Francisco’s PIER 39 directly to their Bluetooth(R) mobile devices. As you may recall from an earlier blog, offers were highly t...

We are getting news for Adobe’s new mobile version from Adobe developers conference in San Francisco. Adobe and AIR have announced that they are working… + view full entry

Support for Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR to Bring Rich Internet Applications to ARM Powered Devices ADOBE MAX 2008, SAN FRANCISCO AND CAMBRIDGE, — Nov. 17, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMH)] today announced a technology collaboration to optimize and enable Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR™ for ARM Powered® devices, ranging from mobile ...

The Adobe MAX Keynote this morning was again very interesting with lots of cool guest presenters. Even the First Lady of California, Maria Shriver, was on the stage talking about the California Legacy Trails project. Other guests included representatives from New York Times, Salseforce.com, Disney Interactive, Google (Andy Rubin) etc. (BTW, the best quote of the keynote came from Salesforce.com re...

Web’s Leading Standalone Photo Site Makes Photo Sharing Fast and Easy For Verizon Wireless Customers BASKING RIDGE, NJ & SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Verizon Wireless, the nation’s leading wireless provider, and Photobucket ( the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, announced the availability of a new mobile photo service on select Verizon Wireless handsets that enables Verizon Wi...

Rating: Tim Draper will join Award Jury We received a friendly reminder from Smaato that the submit deadline for its Mobile Advertising Award is coming closer. GoMoNews own Bena Roberts is a judge on the panel for the award. From the Press Release: San Francisco, CA – November 13, 2008 – Smaato Inc., a pioneering provider for mobile ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone. Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtuall...