Newsletter October 2009

Welcome to the mobiForge newsletter October 2009.

This time:

1. Announcing mobiForge Antenna
2. A Guide to Mobile Emulators
3. Understanding UI in Android
4. The Mobile Web is Dead...
5. mobiForge Shortlisted for Golden Spiders Awards

Announcing mobiForge Antenna

We have a new feature designed to help improve your signal-to-noise ratio of mobile-related content. This is our Digg/Reddit clone and its aim is to bring you a highly focused set of the best content about the mobile web, selected by our panel of experts. In true Digg/Reddit style you can vote your favorite articles up and your most loathed down. You can also submit potential scoops to be included in the list.

This is a spanking new feature, so we'd love to hear your feedback about how to make it better.

Tune in at http://mobiforge.com/antenna

A Guide to Mobile Emulators

This month we have an awesome article by Mike McQuillan (Technical Director at m-send). It covers everything you need to know about mobile emulators, from the state of the art smartphone emulators including iPhone, Android & Palm to some of the more obscure emulators that you might not have known even exist. The article includes tips on how to install and use the emulators, and where to find them too.

Read more: http://mobiforge.com/emulators-guide

Understanding UI in Android

Another new author on mobiForge this month is Soma Ghosh. Soma gives us a gentle introduction to the world of J2ME applications. Plenty of code is included, and you will learn how to setup your environment and develop your first 'Hello World' J2ME Midlet.

Read more: http://mobiforge.com/android-ui-4

The mobile Web is Dead...

Long live the mobile Internet! This one via mobiThinking, our sister site. Mobile Web isn't just about having a mobile Website - though that is an important part - it's about recognizing that mobile is different. Mobile users have different requirements to PC users and mobile devices have different limitations and capabilities compared with PCs.

Read more: http://mobiforge.com/long-live-mobile

mF shortlisted for Golden Spiders Awards

Yes, we've been shortlisted for the Golden Spiders Awards in the category of Best Educational, Research and Training site. We're chuffed of course. We would ask you to go and vote like mad for your favorite mobile dev site but it's not that kind of competition and we'll just have to hope for sensible judges..

And finally, we tried running some Google ads for a while but we got tired at how badly targeted they were. We'd like instead to offer space to our readers at our newly reduced rate. Reach tens of thousands of mobile fans!

Read more: http://mobiforge.com/advertise

That's all for this month. As usual, if you have any feedback, or if you want to write for mobiForge and see your name in lights please get in touch, we'd love to hear from you!

See you on mobiForge!

Ruadhan, Jo, Ronan, Claire, and all the team at dotMobi

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