As Google Android is open source a user doesn’t have the stick to the Android Market to get their applications as there are other sources around and will probably be even more Android app sources given time. One site to enter the Android app business is Phoload, who not only offer plenty of applications but games

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...

Well, damn. I guess all that open source stuff with Android paid off awfully quick, because here we have a video from the Adobe MAX conference of Flash 10 running on the T-Mobile G1. It demos full zooming, panning and interactivity, which unlocks a whole segment of web content typically inaccessible to mobile browsers. Big

The free open source media player Banshee has hit version 1.4 and now syncs your music and playlists to the G1. It’s all automatic and works much like iTunes does with the iPhone. It even imports all the songs you’ve purchased from Amazon. Banshee as a media app is very sweet indeed, doing all the

Fifty-six percent of mobile subscribers would agree to view ads on their phones in exchange for a 25 percent to 50 percent discount on their monthly bill according to a new consumer study commissioned by open source solutions provider Transverse and conducted by market strategy consultancy iGR. Mobile subscribers under age 35 are most receptive to mobile ad discount incentives, the study reports, ...

Arm the mobile chip designer for T-Mobile’s Google G1 android smartphone and various other smartphones is teaming up with Open Source Software Company Ulbuntu and will be producing a version of the operating system for netbooks and small internet browsing computers. The new operating system is set to launch in April 2009 for Arm powered machines.

Nice to be right, once in a while. I received many comments on my first post about the G1, when I claimed it was a garage door opener (actually, my wife did...). Some people said I was too harsh on T-Mobile and Google. Today, I was vindicated. IntoMobile reports the G1 is actually a garage door opener. And it is even open source!

For the first time the Symbian Partner Event (SPE) opens its doors not only to Symbian partners, but also to mobile developers, handset manufacturers, network operators, the Open Source Community and members of the press. Whether you are new to mobile or an experienced Symbian developer, SPE has something for everyone. The cost... Free? Of course!

The Open Mobile Consortium, a working group of developers and organizations engaged in open source mobile applications for social change, is meeting in New York at UNICEF today and tomorrow. The Open Mobile Consortium was founded at MobileActive08 to build an open source community for collaboration and shared development between relevant organisations engaged in mobile development for social good....

Open source is great, right? That should make Google’s open source Android OS great, too. Funambol’s Fabrizio Capobianco sure seems to think so. In a recent blog post, he shares his personal experience regarding a feature on the Android-Powered T-Mobile G1 that was fixed by the Open Source community instead of waiting for Google, HTC, or T-Mobile