MIH SWAT

One of the most fascinating presentations I attended last OSCON (you can read my review here) was entitled Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS and Javascript by Jonathan Stark. Jonathan is a consultant for mobile applications, a frequent conference speaker and often quoted when media speaks of trends for internet and mobile. (more…)

There were many exciting announcements at the Adobe MAX 2009 conference hosted in Los Angeles. As a Flash Developer in the MIH SWAT team, this year’s MAX was the perfect event for me to attend, as it focused on Flash Platform related news. In this post I give a rundown of the MAX 2009 Flash Platform news, but more importantly, I discuss what the announcements may mean for us in the future. These are all my own predictions and I would like to hear your thoughts and insights in the comments below. (more…)

Coming from a Flash Developer background I have had no experience with mobile application development. From the time I saw the first phone to run Android, the G1, I have been itching to get into Android development. So when I was recently given the go-ahead to take this journey into the Android world, plus a shiny new Android phone , I was both excited and nervous (more…)

USSD or Unstructured Supplementary Service Data is a capability of all GSM phones. It is a technology that is built into the signalling layer of the GSM specification, and is therefore already present in all GSM phones and networks. It is session oriented, unlike SMS which is a store-and-forward, transaction-oriented technology. Using an Internet analogy: If SMS is email, USSD is Telnet. (more…)

There is much talk about the coming of the Web to Africa. Much of it completely misdirected, in my opinion. The web has already arrived in Africa – there was simply very little uptake. (more…)