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12/03/09
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From: José de Ribamar Smolka Ramos
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Boa tarde a todos.
Vou repassar para vocês três notícias que vi hoje, e que transcrevo mais abaixo.
01.
A primeira fala das reclamações sobre o comportamento da Apple com relação a
admitir ou não determinadas aplicações de terceiros na sua loja virtual App
Store (o critério é: se a aplicação de terceiros compete com aplicações da
própria Apple, então nada feito). E também menciona a posição anunciada (mas
ainda não provada) pela Nokia e pela Microsoft de não usar critérios deste tipo
nas suas próprias lojas virtuais, que prometem lançar ainda esta semana.
Fonte: Rethink Wireless
[12/03/09]
Google and Nokia face the dilemmas of policing app stores
02.
A segunda diz que a Vodafone iniciará a distribuir música sem travas de DRM no
seu próprio site. Será que os outros sites seguirão o exemplo? Será que isto
marca uma mudança de posição das gravadoras?
Fonte: Rethink Wireless
[12/03/09]
Vodafone goes DRM-free as Nokia beefs up music offering
03.
A terceira trata do Pulsar, plataforma open source para desenvolvimento de
aplicações para handsets da Eclipse Foundation.
Fonte: Rethink Wireless
[12/03/09]
Eclipse Pulsar provides cross-handset framework for developers
Boa leitura!
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J. R. Smolka
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Fonte: Rethink Wireless
[12/03/09]
Google and Nokia face the dilemmas of policing app stores
Not only is the growing array of mobile application stores threatening to
confuse consumers and developers, but so are the rules for what will be admitted
to these stores.
Apple has come under fire for its heavy approach to policing App Store, with
some products barred because they compete with the iPhone maker's own offerings.
Nokia and Microsoft, both outlining details of how their upcoming stores will
work this week, were promising a more open approach, and pledging not to outlaw
any apps on the basis of competition.
Nokia also hopes to lure developers with promises of a fast track process for
approving apps, which it says will take less than a week. Like Apple and Google,
it will give 70% of revenue from paid-for apps to the developers (though Google
does not keep any proceeds from Android Market apart from administrative costs,
giving the rest to operator partners). However, Nokia will only remit the full
70% to developers if customers pay by credit card, and this rate will be lower
if consumers add the cost of the software to their mobile operator bill - an
option that will be available, initially in nine countries. Nokia's own data
shows that, given the choice, more than 80% of customers would use operator
billing but presumably, in this scenario, a bigger cut will go to the carrier.
Another differentiator for Ovi Store against App Store will be a recommendation
engine - personalization is seen as the main unique edge for the virtual
storefront, which opens in May.
Meanwhile, Microsoft was also fleshing out details of its Windows Marketplace
for Mobile. Again, revenue share will echo Apple's policy, with 70% of takings
going to developers and 30% to Microsoft. A software developer kit is now
available for download online. Microsoft also followed Apple's lead by charging
developers a $99 registration fee, which covers up to five application
submissions - each additional submission within the annual registration period
will cost $99, though this should be waived for student developers enrolled in
the Microsoft DreamSpark program.
Like Nokia, Microsoft also promised a faster and more transparent process for
approving products, and "very objective" rules, with the key criteria for
acceptance being security, legal content and how much bandwidth it uses.
Google has often taken the moral high ground on free competition in mobile
software stores, but the search giant is sensitive to possible threats to its
business too, and not scared to use heavy tactics. According to developer
Innerfence, the future of Infinite SMS, its iPhone application offering free
text messaging via Google's Gmail Labs interface, is in doubt after Google
notified the software house that it will block access to its service.
Launched a month ago in the App Store for 99 cents, Infinite SMS plugged into
Google Talk to enable iPhone users to send text messages for free. "Google has
claimed no grievance with Infinite SMS other than its success," says Innerfence
on its blog. Google's official statement reads: "Infinite SMS is a third party
app that has been using Google technology to provide free SMS for users, while
we were paying for the cost of the text messages. While Google is supportive of
third party apps, we've decided we can't support this particular usage of our
system at this time."
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Fonte: Rethink Wireless
[12/03/09]
Vodafone goes DRM-free as Nokia beefs up music offering
Just as Nokia ramps up its assault on the mobile music market, Vodafone has
stolen a march, announcing that it will offer tracks without DRM (digital rights
management) protection.
Vodafone has taken a two-pronged approach to mobile music, offering its own
store mainly on midrange phones; and also supporting Nokia MusicStore on high
end devices. Now it could be upping the ante in favor of its own-branded service,
signing a deal with three major music labels to sell content DRM-free, so that
customers can play it on any device.
Universal, Sony and EMI are all supporting over-the-air DRM-free downloads
straight to the phone - though Warner Music is missing - and Vodafone says that
any customer who has already purchased music from these labels via its store,
can upgrade the tunes to DRM-free MP3 files for free (unlike iTunes, which will
make a charge for customers to access its newly DRM-free tracks). Vodafone says
it is the first mobile operator to enable dual delivery of DRM-free music to
phones and PCs with no need to sideload or synchronize.
From the summer there will be over one million DRM-free tracks available from
Vodafone, with pricing similar to current levels, averaging 99p for single
tracks and from £5.99 for albums, with reduced rates for bulk buying. DRM-free
services will be available in Germany, Italy, the UK, Spain and New Zealand by
this summer, and then in Australia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India,
Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, South Africa and Turkey
later in the year.
Nokia would not be drawn on the DRM issue beyond stating that DRM was a
requirement of the music industry, as it announced its own new moves in this
important mobile content area. It will launch its unlimited download service,
Comes With Music, in six additional markets in the coming months, and has
announced three new handsets in the XpressMusic range, which come with the music
service integrated. Having gone live in the UK, Singapore and imminently in
Australia, CWM is now available in Italy, Sweden and Mexico, while Portugal,
Norway and South Africa will be added in the months ahead.
The new devices are the 5730 XpressMusic, which boasts a full Qwerty keyboard,
and homescreen access to music, people, games, email and calendar as well as a
contacts bar, and expected to retail at €280 ($358); the 5330, with touch keys
for instant access to music and social networking sites, with a price tag of
€160; and the 5030, Nokia's first phone with an internal FM radio antenna,
complete with one-touch radio and channel selection keys on the side of the
device, making it strong for emerging markets. This will cost under €40,
reinforcing Nokia's strategy of pushing web services as aggressively in emerging
markets as developed ones. Nokia says it has, to date, sold more than 425m
devices with a digital music player and 700m with an FM radio.
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Fonte: Rethink Wireless
[12/03/09]
Eclipse Pulsar provides cross-handset framework for developers
As the internet giants fight to control the mobile web software platform, the
open source Eclipse Foundation has been one of the most important initiatives
that sits largely outside the politics, but offers significant cross-platform
capabilities through its integrated development environment (IDE), which is
heavily backed by Nokia and IBM, among others.
The Foundation, which emerged from the enterprise Java world and has been active
in the mobile world for several years now, has announced Pulsar, a new program
to define and create a standard mobile development tools platform. This is led
by Motorola, Nokia and Genuitec and also counts support from IBM, RIM and Sony
Ericsson.
"Today, each of the OEMs provides their own set of tools. It's quite difficult.
Quite a challenge for developers," said Dino Brusco, director of developer
platforms and services at Motorola. He told Information Week: "The whole notion
here is that an application developer can go to eclipse.org, download the Pulsar
platform, and it's complete and ready to go." Pulsar is based on the Eclipse IDE
and Java Mobile Edition, and includes plug-ins for vendor specific SDKs and
mobile development environments. It will be released in June.
While Pulsar will cut down on the effort required to create programs for
different handsets, it would need to get Microsoft, Apple and other software
giants on board to make a difference to the wider mobile web community.
Cross-platform developer platforms are becoming a critical issue as the industry
fragments and programmers are faced with a bewildering choice of tools, vendor
initiatives and app stores. Google Android, Nokia and Symbian, Adobe, Microsoft
and even Ericsson are all trying to push platforms that they aim to make the
leading de facto standards, but the software giants are not, so far at least,
joining Pulsar or any other efforts that would seek to combine their efforts or
integrate their frameworks (though Microsoft recently announced a link to
Eclipse for its Silverlight rich media system).
This leaves Java, and Java-based technologies like Eclipse, as the only credible
system that spans most of the platforms, though Java itself is fragmented and
unevenly supported in the mobile world.
Nokia chose to use the Eclipse Foundation process for open sourcing Symbian, and
has taken an active role since 2004 in creating mobile versions of the Eclipse
Java-based tools. The core Eclipse software is a framework for plugging in third
party components so that different tools, including modellers and code editors,
can be combined in a single user interface.