][ stefano maffulli

I can’t get my head around one feature of Google’s superphone: why did they put that scroll-click-button at the bottom of the phone? Shouldn’t the touch screen be enough to use the phone? Besides, being so close to the bottom edge, can it really be used? If anybody is still thinking that Google wants to [...]

Tags: apple, disruption, google, iphone, mobile, nexusone

Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter of browsing a repository and click on a button. It’s such a good idea that [...]

Tags: android, cloud, cydia, freedom, google, iphone, jailbreak, market, Nokia, openmoko, ovi, rim, store, tivoization

Check this out: Funambol’s R&D department just released a prototype user interface for driving cars. According to my colleagues that drove it in Redwood City, it’s so easy to use, even a caveman can drive it. The vehicle smashes driving age limit with “snap” finger-powered steering; integrates cruise control with Google Latitude to automatically get [...]

Tags: fun, funambol, icar, iphone

When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.’  That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators are wiped out by history). To connect people you have to adapt to people’s language, eventually learning many of them.
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Tags: business, funambol, interoperability, iphone, mobile, Nokia, open standard

The iPhoneDevCamp was a great experience for me.’  Lots of developers, lots of new ideas, lots of fun. I found it surprising though how many people still develop on this platform despite how badly Apple behaves towards its community. In San Francisco at iPhoneDevCamp there were about 500 developers that played for two days delivering [...]

Tags: apple, community, iphone, iphonedevcamp, nda

Many of my friends keep asking me what I think of the iPhone, if it’s good and whether they should buy one. They are all non-techie people that want a very good phone and are willing to pay the extra money for a good handset that does email and web navigation, and a decent phone [...]

Tags: apple, community, freedom, iphone, mac, nda, tivoization

Only real hackers consider improving what everybody else thinks is already optimal. At Funambol we like to do just that and we decided to improve the iPhone user interface:
Funambol, the company that is known for putting the “fun” back in the mobile business, today released a high contrast user interface for the widely used [...]

Tags: community, fun, funambol, iphone, mobile, ui

To confirm that Jobs got everything (not!) right, Sybase jumps on the iPhone bandwagon for enterprise users.
Sybase on Tuesday said it’s adding Apple iPhone support to its suite of mobile middleware, making it possible to access IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers through a secure environment.
May I just add that Funambol can already [...]

Tags: code sniper, community, funambol, iphone, jobs, lotus

Even if I don’t have an iPod (and I won’t buy one … I’ll tell you why one of these days) I’ve asked Funambol’s community to translate into English an article by Luis Medina written in Spanish. Paulo Sergio Lopes Fernandes and German Viscuso contributed the translation.
I liked the article not only because it’s [...]

Tags: funambol, howto, iphone, ipod, mobile, tivoization