Microsoft Surface

Microsoft has unveiled a new touch-sensitive coffee table-shaped computer called "Surface". In my opinion touch interfaces are the next big thing in mobile computing and as you know Microsoft is a real player on the technology market, so it is worth the read. Nice read ;)

Microsoft unveils table computer

China volumes

Read this article and you will understand the reasons why every big technology company in the world is considering China as crucial to their operations.

China Postel orders 20 million devices from Nokia (in Portuguese).

Military stuff

Since the teenager days when I was an electronic technician (yes, I have studied, designed and participatend in engineering projects applying both analog and digital circuits in the past, oops) I know that the cutting-edge and really hard components, harsh ones, are the ones used in military circuits and components. While this is not so directly related to mobile stuff, sometimes I think about the gadgets those guys are using today. Cyber soldiers are a reality nowadays...and their infrastructure is fantastic!

Bandwidth leap for British forces

This is what I really consider as mobility. I am wired...

Those guys are crazy, I would rather to be in Porto de Galinhas or Itacaré. I like beaches...and safety...no doubts :)

Highest mobile call climb begins

The new pick

Hello there,

Below is the new pick.

Although I am not a beginner mobile developer anymore I am buying two new books aimed at newbies but they seem to be quite interesting books anyway, that is why I am paying for them, of course ;)

The first one is Programming Mobile Devices: An Introduction for Practitioners by Tommi Mikkonen. What caught my eyes is that this book discusses some assumptions and conventions taken into consideration when defining the Java ME and Symbian C++ runtimes, the two technologies I am focusing on during the last couple of years.

The second one is S60 Programming - A Tutorial Guide by Forum Nokia Champion fellow Dr. Paul Coulton as it is about S60 programming focusing on GUIs and also the S60 3rd Edition version of S60. Quite cool!

Check the list yourself, now my library is really solid and complete. I am about to master that all :)

Symbian OS Platform Security
* Author: Craig Heath
* Published by Symbian Press
* Publication date: March 2006
* 250 pages
* ISBN 0-470-01882-8

Symbian OS Internals
* Author: Jane Sales
* Published by Symbian
* Publication date:October 2005
* 918 pages
* ISBN 0-470-02524-7

Smartphone Operating System Concepts with Symbian OS
* Author: Michael J. Jipping
* Published by Symbian
* Publication date: April 2007
* 336 pages
* ISBN-10: 0470034491

The Symbian OS Architecture Sourcebook
* Author: Ben Morris
* Published by Symbian
* Publication date: April 2007
* 640 pages
* ISBN 0470018460

S60 Programming - A Tutorial Guide
* Author: Paul Coulton, Reuben Edwards, with Helen Clemson
* Published by Symbian Press
* Publication date: February 2007
* 344 pages
* ISBN-13: 9780470027653

Programming Mobile Devices: An Introduction for Practitioners
* Author: Tommi Mikkonen
* Published by: John Wiley & Sons
* Published in: February 2007
* ISBN-10: 0470057386

Mobile adverstisement is the $ - Microsoft buys ScreenTonic

Mobile adverstisement is where the money is flowing according to Google. Microsoft is listening.

Microsoft buys ScreenTonic (in Portuguese).

Good friends around

During the last year I have been buying and reading some really interesting books, so far the list of strong stuff is below:

• Nokia Smartphone Hacks
• The Accredited Symbian Developer Primer
• S60 Smartphone Quality Assurance
• Symbian OS Explained
• Developing Software for Symbian OS
• How Smartphones Work
• Developing Series 60 Applications

Besides that great books, I am using a lot of cool articles and tutorials from Forum Nokia, Sony Ericsson Developer World and Symbian. Anyway, I think it is time to buy some new books :)

I will prepare my new list and I will be glad if someone can advise me if my new list really inclues good books. Please friends!