IPhone tops chart of developer’s platform
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to a latest survey, 55% of developers build their applications for the Apple iPhone OS. The list is followed by RIM BlackBerry OS, Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5. In the same survey conducted last year, Windows Mobile was by far the most popular OS.
2.4 separate platforms currently developed by the developers are expected to increase to 3.4 over the next 12 months. More than half of developers consider multi-touch to be important or essential to application development, making a whole wealth of devices inadequate by this standard.
Apple’s iPhone OS also topped the chart of the list of developer’s future planning with more than half of those not currently developing for the platform planning to in the next 12 months. Google’s Android and BlackBerry OS were the other in the chart which the programmers were planning to start supporting.
Airtel to offer MS Office on mobile
Telecom services provider Bharti Airtel on Monday announced a strategic tie-up with Microsoft to introduce a new technology platform that will give Airtel users access to a host of Microsoft Office applications and other multimedia products on their mobile phones.Targeting an estimated four million small and medium enterprises potential user, the new business solution portfolio with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 will help Airtel users access MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer), multi media functionalities like camera, MP3 and video recording and line up business application like self-force automation on their mobile phone. The Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 will be available to Airtel customers on the latest HP I-Paq and I-Mate handset, Bharti Airtel president Manoj Kohli said, adding that this tie-up puts Bharti Airtel among 115 existing mobile operators, who currently offer the Windows mobile solutions worldwide.
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