Deborah Strickland

I have not blogged much about what I work with or do and that's on purpose.  Sometimes I am not allowed to tell and mostly I think you would not find it interesting.  However, I wanna share with you from Qt Developer Days #qtdd09 in Munich, which was an amazing event.   Not only is Qt a decent Developer tool for making desktop apps, but joining forces with Nokia, ex-Trolltech is getting far more traction as well. As a result of last week's devdays but also beta-release of Qt 4.6, one of my favorite online newsletter had this article last week.   But being at DevDays Europe is an amazing experience. Third year now for me and it keeps blowing my mind off.  This year an amazing 660 delegates + the 80+ Nokians that attended/helped out.   The DevDays often comes with some ... (more)

The Open Shanzhai Appstore in China?

Mobile Mondays in Beijing is normally not a big thing for me and given that I have to spend an hour to go to the events in Orange Labs in Zhongguangcun, I have not been to a single event yet.  When we Trolltech, we participated in an event but as I was traveling, two of my colleagues participated. However, yesterday it was an interesting topic and a lot of people: Mobile Applications Stor... (more)

Huawei for World Dominance?

Apart from all the Google news lately that has major relevance (like the new programming language 'Go'), there were two news of major significance that I think went through a bit quiet. #1 Huawei signs a €170M deal with Telenor for LTE rollout #2 Huawei will demonstrate TD-LTE with China Mobile for World Expo in Shanghai   7 years ago, I gave a presentation in Sweden in a forum addressin... (more)

AT&T Femtocell Goes Live

As many of you undoubtly noticed, a few weeks ago, AT&T launched the official consumer trial of Femtocell (dubbed MicroCell) in certain regions. Cisco involvement in this project has long been an open secret in the industry, but now that the AT&T device with the Cisco logo is in the stores, the “secret” is out.  Yes, Cisco has an end-to-end Femtocell solution which includes the Fem... (more)

Mobile Application Stores: What's the Operator's Play

Mobile application uptake-it isn't only about iPhones.  Sure Apple's App Store now offers over 65,000 applications, and users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion iPhone and iPod touch applications in the 1st year since launch. But while getting a late start, other mobile application storefronts are trying to catch up.  In the 3 months since launch, RIM's BlackBerry App World has 2,000... (more)