Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) announces it has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Drutt Corporation, a world leading provider of Service Delivery Platform (SDP) solutions. This deal represents yet another step in Ericsson’s ambition to become the leader in multimedia.
Read the full article here: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=125967
I have been working on WURFL since 2002. It has taken a lot of my work and off-work time and I put in a lot of energy in it.
The project has grown from 6 devices into more than a thousand and a few thousands user-agents, from 20 capabilities to almost 500.
We started as 5 people from around Europe with the same problem and we ended with hundreds of developers from all over the world contributing and thanking us.
The W3C invited me to join (as an invited expert, a quite rare thing) the Mobile Web Initiative thanks to my experience with WURFL and mobile site development.
During these years I worked for small companies, developed small sites, but also worked on big on-portal services, worked on off-portal sites, delivered ringtones, SMS’s, MMS, java midlets. I would say almost everything that is related to mobiles.
WURFL has achieved great results and worldwide fame and I like to think also thanks to my contribution and the time I spent regularly on it and in the mailing list.
Now has arrived a time for me to move ahead a look for something new. It is time for new challenges, put on the table what I learnt so far and see what I can do.
WURFL has been a HUGE success, being able to do something as good can be scary, but should be a lot of fun, not to mention the personal achievement!
Stay tuned for an update about what I’m going to do in the years coming. It’s going to be BIIIG.
If you are a WURFL fan, have no fear, the project will stay alive and I actually hope it will grow better every day, Luca is still committed to keep WURFL alive. If you want to make your voice heard in the project and are willing to share some of your time, this is a good time. Get on wmlprogramming and make your voice heard.
According to Lukas Hasik, Sun’s Mobility Pack 6.0 now uses WURFL to determine device capabilities. Lukas wrote about the new release of Mobility Pack citing that many developers wanted to get more information about devices. Thanks to WURFL they are now able to dig in and see device information.
Mobility Pack 6.0 is still under development, there’s a page to read the updates, Mobility Pack New and Noteworthy.
Mobility Pack is part of NetBeans.
Nokia recently (May 29, 2007) released Version 1.0 of a document describing the guidelines to develop Mobile Web sites specific for their devices, of course. The document is specifically aimed to developers and authors that want to target the most recent and advanced mobile browsers, based on Apple’s Webkit. The document is called “Nokia Web Browser Design Guide” and you can download it for free (after registering) from Forum Nokia.
It is good to see another big company, shortly after Ericsson, to suggest WURFL.
I thought I had posted about this, but apparently I did not.
Steve has started a blog a few months ago about video streaming on the mobile. It has a very noble scope, share his experience, exchange views with other developers and eventually provide to the WURFL project the information collected.
Steve did a very good job describing his test environment, encoding configurations and server configuration explanations. He worked hard on this and certainly needs some more attention. Hopefully this post can bring some more attention.
Check out mvstreaming.
Thanks to Nacho I just found out that there’s a case study [PDF] published by dotMobi about the creation of a mobile site for 3 using WURFL.
The site was created by Future Platforms and I had even read a post by Tom Hume about this, but did not realize they used WURFL (and that it was named in the document).
Giogio Natili of mobile.actionscript.it pointed out these upcoming seminars:
Please join M:Metrics for our monthly web briefing on Wednesday, May 23, at 8:00 a.m. PST/ 4:00 p.m. GMT. Evan Neufeld, vice president and senior analyst, will present M:Metrics’ latest findings on the mobile media market, with a focus on opportunities for mobile marketing and advertising.
Who: Evan Neufeld, vice president + senior analyst
What: Mobile Marketing Metrics, Expertise from an Interactive Media Guru
When: Wednesday, May 23 2007, 8:00 a.m. PST/ 11:00 a.m. EST/ 4:00 p.m. GMT
Where: online webcast
To enroll in this event, please login (free registration)to http://mmetrics.webex.com prior to the start of the web briefing. If you are prompted for a password, it is “mobile”.
BeeWeeb Technologies, an Italian software-house (does anybody still use this term?), has recently launched the first version of a new software called “Mobile Web Toolkit“.
The Mobile Web Toolkit is more a technology and a set of tools rather than a simple software. The technology is the result of a few years of experience developing software for mobile devices and for mobile operators, it is a technology to produce a layout that is mobile-friendly from content that was meant for desktop browsers.
Its current incarnation, and only open-source, is a plug-in for WordPress, but BeeWeeb has promised to release more plug-ins and libraries. The open-source version is based on WURFL, but reading the FAQ I think they also mean to provide tools to carriers and that will be based on a proprietary technology that might, later, be integrated with WURFL.
I also spotted a web-version of a presentation they made on the Mobile Web Toolkit that also adds some info about the technology in general and their plans to release more software in the near future.
I found a nice piece about the performance in Italy of the new HSDPA networks.
Thanks to Martin Sauter for this. Read more on HSDPA Performance Of Vodafone’s 3G Network in Italy Has Me Puzzled
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