Nokia’s and Microsoft’s moment of truth approaching soon

The Nokia world conference is planned on October 26-27. Since Nokia’s Windows Phones are announced for Q4 2011, it is likely that Nokia will announce these at the conference. This would mark a significant moment for both Nokia and Microsoft. Nokia Nokia has announced that Windows Phon
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Good things are coming

While a few committed individuals have been camping out for the iPhone 4S for some time now, others are now beginning to filter toward their local Apple retail stores in their attempts to secure one of the new models.     But wait there is more news… No not about Apple
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DroidconNL 2011

Just a short post to share that I will be speaking at the droidconNL conference next month. The conference will happen in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the 22/23 of November. You can read more at the official site: http://droidcon.nl. ’ll be talking about Prototyping your Android app
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Is Apple now focusing on the mid-end part of the market?

So far, Apple has only sold 2 iPhone models at the same time: the most recent one and the version before. This has changed after the presentation of the iPhone 4s: looking at http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/ you can see Apple selling 3 phones: the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4
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Google delays Ice Cream Sandwich

Despite previous announcement, Google and Samsung have announced that they have decided to postpone the announcement of both the Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich. In a joint statement by the two companies, both Google and Samsung feel this is not the right time to announce a new pro
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What to expect from Android Ice Cream Sandwich

After Honeycomb, the new Android software development kit (SDK) version is called Ice Cream Sandwich, as announced at the Google I/O event in San Francisco. Is should merge the best of Honeycomb and Gingerbread together. So let’s take a closer look what we can expect.
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Handlers and AsyncTasks, Android doing multithreading

Multithreading is always tricky. On any platform and in any language, when not implemented properly you will get unexpected behavior sooner or later. In the process of making an Android application suitable for Honeycomb, a colleague of mine ran into the NetworkOnMainThreadException,
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How-To: Android emulator performance tuning tips

As some of you may already noticed, running Android Honeycomb application on the Android emulator, isn’t the most fun thing to do, because it’s painfully slow. Besides the start-up time (can be avoided, which I explain later), just using it is a pain. Google is planning to
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Android Trading app launched for BinckBank

Last week our Android Trading app for leading online broker BinckBank was launched. The app offers realtime streaming market data and lets users trade from the comfort of their Android device. BinckBank website ► Watch video ►
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