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With the economy seemingly in a decline, the Beijing Olympics set to begin in a week and Jon Miller joining the Yahoo Board tomorrow (see Alleyinsider), the activity in mobile continues to excite. Apple stores post 'Out of 3g iPhones' daily even though cracks are appearing in the botton of the new 3G iPhones Opera has released their beta browser (for Windows Mobile only), mSpot has hit 4 million subscribers to their mobile music/video service and Skyfire has made

Dulles: June 30 2008 - For the past month I have been using a beta version of the Skyfire browser (0.6.0.4503) on my AT&T Tilt (Windows Mobile 6). When my Tilt is connected to either WiFi or 3G, Skyfire is very good. Skyfire displays the full web page - but on the Tilt, most of the page is too small to read. But once I click on a section of the page to read, Skyfire brings up the section with clear, readable text and images are cleanly displayed. While connected to AT&T's 3G in my backyard, I was able to surf the web fairly well for an hour including reading blogs and viewing videos.

Dulles: June 25, 2008 - Yesterday morning Nokia announced the creation of the Symbian Foundation. Nokia will purchase the remaining 52% of Symbian shares and donate the source code to the open source community through the Symbian Foundation. In 2007 there were 77 million Symbian smartphones sold worldwide dominating the smartphone market. Initial reports indicate the first handsets based on open source Symbian will appear in early 2010.

Dulles: June 24, 2008 - The recently released Flagship AIM beta has scored well!

CNET: After the sophistication of desktop chatting, mobile instant messaging services often tend to look like rough, rickety wire frames. Not so for AOL's first house-made application for mobile phones...AIM for Windows Mobile is a notable effort that serves AIM loyalists well...

GIZMODO: It looks pretty swank, at least as far as WinMo apps go, and more than satisfying for a mobile AIM client.

Dulles June 9, 2008 - With 59 business days to the Open Mobile Platform 0.5 August 31, 2008 release, there is a whirlwind of activity spread across AOL development teams in Seattle, Dulles, Bangalore Development Center (BDC) and Beijing. OMP 0.5 will be released to the open source community with five reference applications including a MapQuest client, a Bluestring uploader application, an AIM client using OpenAIM, an RSS reader and an LBS application. User documentation will also be included with the 0.5 release.