Mainly mobile topics, with some Microsoft and Ruby filling:
- Spotify now runs on Symbian in addition to iPhone. No news on Silverlight port for Symbian at last week’s PDC.
- Nokia sent a batch of N900’s to the Finnish press just before PDC. Haven’t had a chance to play with our test unit yet personally, Ilari has – with mixed feelings. Perttu Pitkänen (Digitoday, It-viikko), thinks its “sturdy” and “beats iPhone in multitasking”, AfterDawn likes the performance but dislikes the apps and limitations.
- Joe Wilcox writes in his PDC09 summary, that Microsoft “mobile phone strategy is a disaster”. Couldn’t agree more.
- Expression Web Service Pack 1 has been released. Mostly bug fixes, improves PHP editing (not something you would expect in a Microsoft product).
- Jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch users attacked by a new worm, this one sounds nasty.
- Google Hacking is always fun. This times PDF files printed with IE leak path data. Doesn’t sound that serious, though.
- WoW turned 5. Times flies!
- iPhone and Android make up 75% of mobile browsing in the US, according to AdMob.
- A new standard for content management systems is being prepared under OASIS. Seems quite enterprisey.
- JRuby is making progress, also on Windows. Haven’t noticed much enthusiasm behind IronRuby, though. InfoWorld report from RubyConf.
- And finally: Google opens Chrome to extension developers. Look out, Firefox.