VisionMobile news, workshops and events
The VisionMobile team are often in the news, attending industry events and presenting workshops. Here’s what we’ve been doing lately:
Developer Economics goes AppNation
After delivering a very well received presentation of Developer Economics 2010 at Mobile Monday London last month (even if we do say so ourselves), VisionMobile Associate Eli Camilleri is ready to storm the AppNation conference.
The conference, held in San Francisco between September 13 &14, focuses on social and mobile apps across all devices & platforms, as well as the role of technology as an enabler.
06Sep2010
The conference, held in San Francisco between September 13 &14, focuses on social and mobile apps across all devices & platforms, as well as the role of technology as an enabler.
Developer Economics Blog Series in Chinese
Our Developer Economics Blog Series, based on the Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond research (free copy here) will soon be available in Chinese.
The first part of the series, The Migration of Developer Mindshare - 移动开发者经济 2010：开发者心理占有率的转变, has already been translated and is available in the ifanr website.
UPDATE: The second part of the series, Taking Applications to Market - 移动开发者经济 2010：将程序推向市场, has just been released. Click here for the translation by ifanr.
UPDATE: The third part of the blog series is now available in Chinese: The Building Blocks of Mobile Applications - 移动开发者经济2010：移动应用程序的开发构件, has just been released. Click here for the translation.
UPDATE: The final part is now available: The Role of Networks in a Developer World -移动开发者经济 2010 ：网络在开发者世界中扮演的角色. Click here for the translation.
VisionMobile speaks Chinese!
Well, we don’t actually speak the language, but we do have some blog articles available in Chinese, courtesy of Lord Hong and ifanr.
Here’s the list of articles that have been translated so far:- Who can save Palm? - 谁能拯救Palm?
- What future for the mobile phone in a multi-platform world? - 多平台世界中, 移动手持的未来在何处
- Making Sense of Samsung's Bada - 三星 bada 意欲何为？
- Why Adobe Should Change its Mobile Strategy (again) - 为什么 Adobe 需要改变移动策略
- Is Android Evil? - 最封闭的开源系统，话说Android的八宗罪
- The many faces of Android fragmentation - Android 分裂的多面性
- The past, present and future of Mobile Video Telephony - 移动视频通话的过去、现在和未来
Developer Economics 2010 in the news
Developer Economics 2010, our latest research report on developer perceptions and expectations, has already created a lot of media buzz!
The first article of the 4-part blog series we’re doing on the report, The Migration of Developer Mindshare, has reached 8.5K views and 220+ tweets, in under 48 hours.
Also, a number of important industry news sites & bloggers have published their own take on the report. Here are a few of them:
TechCruch - Everything You Need To Know About The Fragmented Mobile Developer Ecosystem
MSearchGroove - VisionMobile Report Reveals Developer Attitudes & Operator Opportunities
Rethink Wireless - Android leads market in developer confidence
Mobile Internet Revolution - VisionMobile Mobile Developer Economics Report: Some Thoughts
07Jul2010
The first article of the 4-part blog series we’re doing on the report, The Migration of Developer Mindshare, has reached 8.5K views and 220+ tweets, in under 48 hours.
Also, a number of important industry news sites & bloggers have published their own take on the report. Here are a few of them:
TechCruch - Everything You Need To Know About The Fragmented Mobile Developer Ecosystem
MSearchGroove - VisionMobile Report Reveals Developer Attitudes & Operator Opportunities
Rethink Wireless - Android leads market in developer confidence
Mobile Internet Revolution - VisionMobile Mobile Developer Economics Report: Some Thoughts
VisionMobile publishes Developer Economics 2010
We have just published Developer Economics 2010, a global research examining all aspects of mobile development, from app design and coding to market delivery and monetisation.
The report is based on a survey of 400+ developers, across all 8 major platforms: iOS (iPhone), Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Phone, Java ME, Flash/Flash Lite, mobile web.
The report is available for free download here, courtesy of the Telefonica Developer Communities.
We’re also doing a 4-part analysis of the report. Visit our blog, and read Part 1 – The Migration of Developer Mindshare.
07Jul2010
The report is based on a survey of 400+ developers, across all 8 major platforms: iOS (iPhone), Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Phone, Java ME, Flash/Flash Lite, mobile web.
The report is available for free download here, courtesy of the Telefonica Developer Communities.
We’re also doing a 4-part analysis of the report. Visit our blog, and read Part 1 – The Migration of Developer Mindshare.
VisionMobile Names Top 15 Mobile Software Product
We have just issued a press release naming the top 15 mobile software products for 2009, in terms of cumulative shipments. These products represent the top half of the 30 products featured in the 100 Million Club, the watchlist of mobile software products embedded in more than 100 million devices.
The 15 products included in our press release have all been embedded in more than 500 million devices as of the end of 2009, while 7 of them have been shipped in more than 1 billion. These products range from browsers and operating systems to Java VMs and messaging middleware.
To read our blog article on the 100 Million Club and download the full report, click here.
26May2010
Developer Survey: Draw for prizes May 14
Our Mobile Developer Survey has now closed. The results will be available for download around the end of the month. We would like to thank all the people who supported the survey and helped spread the word, as well as everyone who took the time to participate.
We will be holding the draw for the prizes on Friday, May 14. The available prizes are: Nexus One, HTC Touch 2, 1 Amazon voucher worth 500 Euros, 1 Amazon voucher worth 250 Euros and 20 Mobile Industry Atlases.
Update: Winners announced. Click here to see if you are one of them!
03May2010
Magma VC presents Mobile Megatrends '10 in Israel
VisionMobile Research Director, Andreas Constantinou, has been invited to present our Mobile Megatrends 2010, in an invite-only event organised by Magma VC in Tel Aviv, on Wednesday May 5. The presentation will cover key insights into mobile industry trends, incl. verticalisation, the evolution of revenue models, the long-tail future of app stores, web vs native platforms and why Open is the New Closed. The presentation will be followed by a round table discussion featuring Pelephone’s Guy Bauman, SanDisk’s Moshe Reines and Magma’s Modi Rosen.
You can download a free copy of VisionMobile’s Mobile Megatrends 2010 here.
29Apr2010
BBC looking for best international blogs
BBC Blogworld is looking for the best international blogs and awaits your suggestions. Starting next week, they will be airing short TV and radio slots in English, Arabic and Farsi, talking to some of the featured bloggers.
If you want to suggest our blog (nudge, nudge!) please send an email to super.power@bbc.co.uk or tweet @bbc_blogworld.
04Mar2010
Mobile Developer Survey: MWC pass winner
We've drawn the lucky winner of a free MWC 2010 pass: Brian Azzopardi. Brian won the pass as a prize for participating in our Mobile Developer Survey.
Fret not, though, there are still many prizes to be won. Apart from 20 Mobile Industry Atlases, we have two massive Amazon vouchers still up for grabs, one worth 500 Euros and the other 250 Euros.
Join in now, win prizes and have your say on the future of mobile development.
10Feb2010
VisionMobile attending Mobile World Congress 2010
VisionMobile’s Andreas Constantinou, George Voulgaris and Matos Kapetanakis will be attending MWC 2010 in Barcelona (15-18 February). We’ll be there throughout the week, so drop us a line if you want to meet up.
04Feb2010
Mobile Trends 2020
m-trends.org, one of the most popular blogs on the mobile industry, has been making predictions on future trends for some time now. This year, m-trends called on some of the people that have influenced industry perceptions, asking them to write their five most significant trends for the coming decade.
VisionMobile's Andreas Constantinou, one of the industry influencers invited to join this event, shared his own predictions for the future of mobile, including the future of operators, app stores and open source economics. Read all the 2020 Trends, here.
11Jan2010
Cybercom’s seminar on Mobile Megatrends
Andreas Constantinou is the invited speaker in the seminar on Mobile Megatrends 2010, organised by Cybercom. The seminar will take place in Malmö on the 4th of February.
The megatrends to be presented include vertical handset+services propositions, monetization strategies for software companies, web operating systems, open source platforms and mobile app stores.
21Dec2009
The megatrends to be presented include vertical handset+services propositions, monetization strategies for software companies, web operating systems, open source platforms and mobile app stores.
Mobile User Experience conference
George Voulgaris attended the
Mobile User Experience conference on 17 and 18 November in London. George was one the judges for the UX Designer Den at 17 Nov in London. Have you attended too or took part in the UX Designer Den competition? Drop us a line!
20Nov2009
See you at Rutberg Wireless Influencers 2009
Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, will be hosting and chairing a panel on software megatrends at Rutberg Wireless Influencers 2009 next week in Carlsbad, California.
Get in touch if you are in the area and want to meet up.
20Oct2009
OSiM World 2009
Åse Stiller, Jean-Marie André and Andreas Constantinou will be attending the OSiM conference in Amsterdam (15 – 16 September). Andreas will be briefing at the Breakfast Roundtables and chairing "Stream One" on Day One and Jean-Marie André will be presenting “Open Source Cluedo: Who Benefits From the Crime?” on Day Two.
25Aug2009
Mobile 2.0 Europe
We are proud to be a sponsor at Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona (18 - 19 June). Andreas Constantinou, Research Director will be part of the panel on Openness on Friday during the event.
Andreas has also written a blog post discussing Openness and welcomes feedback and questions.
12Jun2009
Interview with Opera Insights
Andreas Constantinou, Research Director has been featured in the Opera Insights newsletter discussing the mobile widget space.
12Jun2009
75 Great Mobile Twitterers
We've been featured as one of the top 75 great mobile Twitterers by Lisa Whelan over at SocializeMobilize. If you're not already following us, our profiles are @visionmobile and @andreascon.
29May2009
OSIM San Francisco
Åse Stiller presented choices that your organisation can make in an open source world at OSiM San Francisco on 12 March 2009.
12Mar2009
Open Kernel Labs joins 100 million club
Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) announced that its market-leading embedded hypervisor, OKL4, was named to the VisionMobile 100 million club
(see Open Kernal Labs press release).
24Feb2009
Mobileidus Corp - Podcast
Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, talks about the future of S60 now that Nokia has purchased Symbian, access to source code vs openness, Android, mobile application stores, economics of mobile operating systems and the future of social networking.
Listen to Andreas Constantinou and Erick Eidus here.
12Feb2009
Quote on cellular-news
“Without a doubt, 2008 was the year when open source transitioned from a status of early adoption to one of acceptance and endorsement by the mobile industry as the new recipe for collaborative software development,” commented Andreas Constantinou, research director at VisionMobile. “As one of the most prominent integrators for mobile Linux stacks, Wind River fills an important gap within the new mobile economy; customization, integration and validation of open source handset software.” Read
Mobile Linux Group Selects Wind River As Systems Integrator.
10Feb2009
Red Bend joins 100 million club
vCurrent® Mobile Firmware has been named to VisionMobile’s 100 million club
(see Red Bends press release).
22Dec2008
Purple Labs joins the 100 million club
Purple Labs has been recognised as only one of 23 companies who have shipped software on over 100 million handsets, and so joins the 100 million club
(see PurpleLabs press release).
19Nov2008
Nuance’s T9 Text Input and VSuite Join 100m club
BURLINGTON, MA, November 20, 2008 — Nuance Communications announced that its T9® Text Input and VSuite embedded mobile speech software were both named to VisionMobile’s 100 million club for the first half of 2008
(see Nuance press release).
20Nov2008
Quote on RCR Wireless
RCR Wireless: “All in all I believe Nemo will either succeed spectacularly or fail into anonymity,” Constantinou noted. “OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) are looking for the exact same capability (Java ME stopgap and Java app store), so there are some really good M&A opportunities there. Otherwise it will fail into anonymity, as with their previous effort of launching an ODP (on-device portal) with Yahoo.”
Read Startup Everypoint emerges from stealth mode with new app platform.
Mobile Platforms and OS Conference December 2008
Research Director, Andreas Constantinou will be chairing the second day of the Mobile Platforms and OS conference, December 10, at the Crown Plaza, London.
Quote on TelecomTV
TelecomTV: “With this formula, the BREW platform has been doing very nicely and now fosters an average of 80 million downloads per month and, according to Andreas Constantinou, Research Director at VisionMobile has garnered over $1 billion in software revenues.”
Read Qualcomm gives its BREW mobile software environment a lift.
Mobile User Experience Conference November 2008
Research Director, Andreas Constantinou will be chairing the second day of the Mobile User Experience Conference, November 12, at the Crown Plaza, London.
Handsets Forum USA October 2008
Timo Bruns will be presenting our latest research in a talk titled Android and S60 with the Modern Developer: How Do They Compare?, on October 30 as part of the Handsets Forum conference in San Diego. Timo will also be taking part in the panel discussion titled Do Device Manufacturers Need to Find a Revenue Stream From Services in Order to be Viable?.
Press Release - October 2008
The Mobile Industry Atlas; First to Bring Clarity Into the Chaos of the Mobile Marketplace
Full press release
Full press release
Symbian Show October 2008
The VisionMobile team will be out and about at the Symbian Smartphone Show on October 21-22 in Earls Court, London. Are you attending? If you’d like to meet up, drop us a line.
Andreas Constantinou will also be moderating the keynotes panel session titled Who will win the runtime race? on October 22.
Andreas Constantinou will also be moderating the keynotes panel session titled Who will win the runtime race? on October 22.
OSIM World 2008
We'll be attending Informa's OSiM World 2008 conference in Berlin (16 - 19 September)
We'll be delivering the one-day pre conference Mobile Open Source workshop on September 16th.
See you there!
Quote on Mobile Handset Analyst
Mobile Handset Analyst: "The task of integrating businesses and technologies based in three countries with different international corporate cultures and distinct legacy software stacks to build ALP, and the resulting need to embrace developers from each country, was not easy to pull off, Andreas Constantinou, research director at VisionMobile, told MHA."
Mobile Handset Analyst, Informa, 22 July 2008
Mobile Handset Analyst, Informa, 22 July 2008
Quote on Information Week
Information Week: "According to Andreas Constantinou, research director at VisionMobile, an open source version of the Symbian OS could have one distinct advantage over Linux-based systems; 'The Symbian Foundation's platform will be backwards compatible with Symbian OS 9, S60 3rd Edition.'"
read: The Open Source Mobile OS Battle Continues
read: The Open Source Mobile OS Battle Continues
WIF Magazine - June 2008
Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, wrote an article appearing on the WIF Magazine titled Introducing Channel APRU: Making money on the last mile to the user.
Quote on WindowsForDevices
Andreas Constantinou was featured as a guest author on WindowsForDevices.com with an article titled Symbian + Nokia = Love
See you at Handsets World, Berlin!
We 'll be attending Informa's Handsets World conference in Berlin on June 10-11. We will also be delivering the post-conference workshop (June 12th) on mobile open source - if you fancy six hours of a deepdive crash course on mobile open source, this is the place and time to be!
Website re-launch (March 2008)
Mobile Open Source workshop
Continuing with our successful 360 degree workshop on Mobile Open Source, we ‘ll be delivering the workshop as part of Informa’s Open Source in Mobile conference in San Francisco conference on March 10. This one-day intensive workshop is a must for companies wanting to understand the economics, legal issues and complex landscape of Linux and open source software vendors in the mobile industry, and make informed decisions on their own positioning.
Check here for more info on the Informa Open Source in Mobile conference, or let us know if you are in the San Francisco area and want to meet up.
Check here for more info on the Informa Open Source in Mobile conference, or let us know if you are in the San Francisco area and want to meet up.
Mobile World Congress 2008!
We ‘ll be attending the MWC conference in Barcelona, joining the annual pilgrimage to the industry’s biggest party. If you want to meet up, drop us a line.
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