Dr. Dobb's Mobile Blogs

The Parrot Asteroid Development Experience

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:44:00 -0400

Is That An Android In Your Car?

Let's All Write a Mobile OS!

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:43:00 -0400

Intel, Nokia, Microsoft and the endless relaunching of mobile operating systems

Information Storage and Retrieval: From MEDLARS to Twitter

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:00:00 -0500

Each decade, technology breakthroughs update our lexicon with new words and phrases.

Coding in a Post-PC World Series

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:59:00 -0500

Reading PDFs on the Kindle Fire

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:29:00 -0500

I've read a lot of reviews of the Kindle Fire, and they don't discuss something very important to me — reading PDF files on the Fire

Software AG / Terracotta at Process World 2011

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:12:45 -0400

I recently had a chance to speak with a number of executives at Terracotta as well as Software AG (which recently acquired the company) about their combined strategy.

OpenGL iPhone Games with Cocos2D Review

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:16:00 -0400

iOS developer Todd Moore has recorded a series of five videos with O'Reilly Media that showcases Cocos2D for iPhone in a conversational screencast format. Read on to learn if it is worth the nearly 20-dollar price to stream/download the videos.

Adobe's Upcoming Flash Builder Release

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:25:00 -0400

With yesterday's news of Adobe's upcoming Flash Builder 4.5 release, Adobe is leaping forward with both feet in recognizing the so-called 'Post PC' era of computing.

Android, Airplanes, and Assembler: IDEOne

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:46:00 -0400

I spend a lot of time on airplanes. It used to be you'd often strike up a conversation with the person next to you on a plane. Over the years I met the editor of a newspaper in Roswell, New Mexico (and, yes, he was human as far as I could tell), an LA Laker Girl (no kidding)

Head in the Clouds

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:53:45 -0400

For developers, programming for the cloud, especially public clouds, is no simple task

iPad 2 Brings iOS Developers to Multicore Programming Land

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:57:00 -0400

The recently launched iPad 2 includes a 1 GHz dual-core Apple A5 System-on-a-Chip -- If you want your iOS apps to take full advantage of this powerful dual-core chip, you have to use multicore programming techniques in these apps

The iPad Fit

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:36:46 -0500

Apple iPhone iPad MacBook Convergence Mobility Notebook

Waiting for Moore's Law to Work

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:54:19 -0500

Reading the "Mobile Web Application Best Practices" a W3C Recommendation from 14 December 2010, I was struck by the similarity of the resour...

Hello Android (and the Google Nexus-S)

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:21:21 -0500

I don't usually review hardware for DDJ, but this feels like a special case for two reasons. First, it's the buzzed-about phone of the moment, what with it being the successor to Google's "failed" (bu...

The Command Line Phone

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:42:59 -0500

I know I've mentioned it before but I have never fully bought into the whole GUI concept. There are a few exceptions--word processing and debugging come to mind. Still, like it or not, the idea behind...

Particle Code for Mobile App Freedom

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:41:35 -0400

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Guy Ben-Artzi, co-founder and CEO of Particle Code, to speak about their new cross-platform SDK for mobile application development, called the Particle Platform...

Nokia N8 and Java ME

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:08:34 -0400

Today, Nokia officially announced their new N8 mobile device, which runs Symbian and supports real Java applications (via Java ME). It's not Android - it's Symbian. And although some of the specs fall short of the iPhone and some Android phones such as the Droid Incredible, Nokia has done a nice job with the integrated camera.

Apples in the Walled Garden

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:14:15 -0400

Apple wants its users to have an optimal experience using its devices. That's what attracted people to the Macintosh and created the cult-like following that defined Mac Users and PC Users.

HP acquires Palm for $1.2 billion

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:05:20 -0400

Health Care and Mobile Devices

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:14:59 -0400

Regardless of where you come down on the Health Care Debate, there is no debating that the advancement in mobile networks and devices will have a significant impact on the Health Care Industry.

Hub-a, Hub-a, Hub-a

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:00:00 -0500

This week's headlines generally read "Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series." More accurately they probably should have said something like "Microsoft takes yet another run at mobile phones." Of course, that doesn't mean that the Phone 7 isn't interesting and newsworthy. What I find interesting about the Phone 7 is the implementation of "hubs," although I probably would have shyed away from describing them as "unrivaled." But more on that shortly.

Decoupling the Web from the Desktop

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development Book Review

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

As the move toward mobile computing continues to progress at an ever-accelerating rate, platforms that began life on the desktop are crossing the chasm to more personal portable designs. Does this book successfully orient desktop developers to this new horizon? Read on to find out.

Horizon: Symbian Directory In, App Store Out

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400

The nice thing about being agile is that, depending on how circumstances roll out, you have the flexibility to change your mind. That's the case with the Symbian Foundation, anyway.

TV Kids -> Digital Kids -> Mobile Kids

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:00:00 -0400