Imagine this, “You come into a coffee shop as a “mobile guest“, you order something. You check if you have enough electronic cash on your mobile phone. Pay for it with your cell phone using secure short range wireless communications meant for transactions.”
Just to remind some of you who may not have registered for the upcoming Mobile World Congress this year. The event which is usually a time when most people in the mobile industry meet and launch new products looks exciting this year. The event is scheduled on Feb 16-19, 2009 at beautiful Barcelona, Spain – wish I could go, maybe next year 
It looks like Qualcomm is positioning itself to become a leader in the growing mobile graphics market with it’s current acquisition of AMD’s handheld business that includes several graphics and multimedia technology assets.
A private group of developers called “cupcake” is poised to merge into the next release of Google Android a bunch of fixes, changes and enhancements. Google is in the process of merging the private branch into mainstream that will take the changes into the public mainstream. I’m particularly happy to hear that video capture and A2DP bluetooth will now be available.
University of California (Berkeley) and Nokia Research Center have come up with a unique idea to use GPS-equipped cell phones as traffic monitoring probes that will help analyze traffic flow and travel patterns in the San Francisco Bay area.
Gameloft has inked a deal for an exclusive mobile game licensing agreement with Marvel Entertainment for Spider-man and Iron Man 2.
The source code to the Android operating system has now been released to the public. We can now truly call Android as the first truly open mobile platform.
This should be really welcome news to all the iPhone developers out there and provides some hope that Apple will be more open to getting J2ME and Flash into the iPhone. It seems that Apple has decided that it will do away with the current non-disclosure agreement it has with iPhone developers and publishers
Just read some leaked info of the very, very soon to be released T-Mobile G1 Android-based mobile phone. Looks like it will have a 3.1 megapixel camera but no video capture. No stereo bluetooth either. Supports only 65K colors on a 480×320 screen. No corporate email and gmail is required. You can read more at the TmoNews post.
T-mobile has recently opened up its developer community site called devPartner. The T-mobile developer provides a way of bridging the gap between it’s subscriber base and the mobile developer community. The developer program, dubbed “stick together®”, provides support for mobile phones used by its subscribers and a testing and certification process for mobile applications.
