As some of you may know, Vodafone offers you 100% free access to the Vodafone Private Handset Cloud. This innovative service, powered by Perfecto Mobile's™ mobile application testing solutions, allows you to test your widgets, applications & content on REAL live Vodafone devices. The Vodafone Private Handset Cloud significantly evolved during recent months, to include new handsets and many exciting features that can really make life a whole lot easier for all you developers out there. The Vodafone Handset Cloud lets you test and monitor your apps on multiple devices, in various geographies and thus significantly shorten your application's ...

We are delighted to announce the winner of Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010, the biggest competition of its kind, aimed at identifying and developing the best, most innovative mobile internet start-ups. Cardmobili, which describes itself as 'consumer loyalty going mobile and social' was awarded the title today at PICNIC festival in Amsterdam and will receive the €100,000 1st place prize fund.

Fending off competition from 159 other entrants, Cardmobili won the top prize for its intuitive application that allows consumers and retailers to share the latest coupons and reward vouchers entirely via mobile handsets. Users can also pass on special ...

In the mobile phones context, PPI (pixels per inch) is a measurement of the resolution of devices screens. A higher PPI means better/clearer images. PPI can also be used to identify devices.

The following Javascript code presents a method to calculate the PPI and to identify the device:

function getPPI(){
  var DOM_body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
  var DOM_div = document.createElement('div');
  DOM_div.style.width = "1in";
  DOM_div.style.visibility = "hidden";
  DOM_body.appendChild(DOM_div);
  var ppi = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(DOM_div, null).getPropertyValue('width');
  DOM_body.removeChild(DOM_div);
  return parseInt(ppi, 10);
}

var ppi = getPPI();
var device = '';
switch(ppi) {
  case 265: device = 'Samsung ...

Last Saturday 18^th Sept Vodafone hosted a full one day event, the 'London Ajax User Group Happening: JavaScript MiniConf'. The event was co-ordinated by Dylan Schiemann, London Ajax User Group organiser and one of the creators of the Dojo toolkit..

Around 45 keen developers attended from across the board including professional developers, hobbyists and newcomers to JavaScript. With some attendees travelling in from as far away as Ireland and Portugal.

The day consisted of an array of highly informative presentations (from the meetup site):

• James Thomas (IBM): "Browser Data Stores"
• Andrew Betts (Assanka, Meteor): "Ajax Navigation: pitfalls and best ...

If you are building data driven apps then you might want to take a look at NextDB.net a hosted 'cloud' database for JavaScript programmers, which offers a simple, lightweight JavaScript API for performing safe and secure read/write operations to a hosted database server. All of the design and management of the database is done through a simple web based admin interface, requiring no software installation. The impetus for NextDB.net was the understanding that front-end widget developers need a simpler way to design and interact with server side data, without all of the hassles and upfront costs of ...

We’re delighted to announce that we have launched the capability for you to upload your paid and free Android applications for the Vodafone 360 Shop on Android devices.

Through the Vodafone 360 Shop you can bring your apps to market with Vodafone and reach consumers in 8 EU countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Netherlands & Greece.

Submitting your app only takes a few simple steps, find out more here - http://developer.vodafone.com/develop-apps/android

The Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 competition moves into its next phase today with the announcement of its four finalists.

With 20 excellent nominees (5 for each competing country), the jury had a lot of difficulty to decide on the four finalists that will be invited to represent their country in a live final at PICNIC Festival, which will be held in the Netherlands on September 24th.

The four finalists that are still competing for the €150,000 total prize fund represent companies working on field-worker remote reporting; mobile loyalty cards; mobile application lifecycle management and ‘2nd screen’ gaming.

The four ...

Today Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 moved into its second phase with the announcement of the 20 second round nominees.

Overall the competition had a stunning total of 160 competing mobile startups. This made it a big challenge for our jury and it was a close call on many occasions, which really shows the quality of this year’s entries!

The jury selected the very best entries based on the 5 criteria mentioned below:

• Originality, creativity and innovativeness
• Technical and operational ability
• Economic and financial viability (business case)
• Use case and end-user value
• The quality of the members of the (management ...