We are looking forward to a  great Football season. Good luck to all football supporter out there.

• Final Whistle Full version with extra features will be available to download from www.Final-whistle.com and other market places like Nokia’s OVI and Getjar.
• Although beta version will version that has already been downloaded will work during the month of June, we encourage Final Whistle users to download the full version with enhanced features from the 10th of June 2010.
• the suggestion on adding more leagues and some useful features request from some  compassionate fans have been taken into consideration. There will be some more options and features included in the final release version of Final Whistle app.
• More devices will be supported.
• Price of the Final version of this football app will be affordable for the football fans around the world.

We will keep you posted with further development. Watch out for the glimpses of new features on this brilliant Final Whistle App.

Watch this space closely for announcements on pricing and release of FINAL WHISTLE Ver 1.00

Tricast Apps is the next big thing coming from us, we are working hard to bring you not one, not two but a range of new exciting apps for JavaME phones. We will be releasing these apps from April onwards. The first two apps to be released are a beta version of our fantastic football app and the other is a great location aware events finder app.

Here is a sneak peak of our football app

One of the key message from Mobile World Congress of 2010 is that Mobile operators around the world are joining hands to sort the fragmentation issue on mobile phones. Some of the world’s largest  mobile operators have joined forces to launch this platform. once this platform is launched , this will create a so called wholesale application community. It will be able to combine 15 of the largest operators including  America Movil, At&T, T-Mobile, KT, NTT Docomo, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, Telesonera, Sprint.  There are four more operators in the Joint Innovation Lab(JIL) mobile apps initiative Vodafone, China mobile, Softbank and Verizon wireless are also included. This group serves 3 billion mobile customers all over the world.

 With all this development questions are being asked if all this development means rest of the world against Apple that has its own well established apps store. Handset manufacturers like Sony Ericsson, LG and Samsung who do not have a significant apps business yet are supporting this operators led initiative.

The operators alliance is planning to use both JIL and OMTP’s  BONDI requirements initially and eventually evolving into a common standard within the next 12 months. It is not clear yet what it will do in terms of competition in apps business but it looks that it would address the so-called fragmented application market place. This initiative will also help operators to capture revenue generating apps business. It will be interesting to see how the developers who want to take advantage of this opportunity would re-adjust their development and marketing strategies before and after this opportunity is fully materialized in terms of the availability and finalization of the common standards.

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We will be taking selected TWUIK powered applications and demos to the show. We would love to show these apps to our potential partners in this show. Please come and visit us at the Scotland stand in Hall 1. If we are busy in meetings please leave you contact details and requested information we will come back to you as soon as we can. Look forward to see you in Barcelona folks.

On the update note, we thank all twitter mobile users out there for their fabulous feedback and comments on numerous blogs and forums. We are working towards implementing as many feature requests as possible that we think will add the greatest value to the application. Please stay tuned for announcement on a version update with extra features and functionality. Also to be announced the Black Berry and Touch Screen version of Tweeter Mobile to be released soon.

Tricastmedia

Like always please give us your feedback via comments through this blog or directly via email at info@tricastmedia.com.

Check it out at www.tricastmedia.com/twuik/

Now you know the answers to these three questions:

Why have I forgotten what my house looks like?

Why does my dog give me a sideways look before attacking me if I do get home?

Why have I learned more about Java, XML and library generators than any sane man would ever want to know?

TWUIK, but it’s so worth it…

Check it out – all you need is a valid email address to receive the download link.

Build applications – you will get 21 days free use of the online library generator to build your TWUIK applications.

RTFM – Please read the manual to get the best from TWUIK.

Learn from the Tutorials – included in the TWUIK_SDK download pack are full instructions for NetBeans^©, Command line, and four fully working tutorial TWUIK applications with fully commented source code.

Let us know what you think – we shall be releasing a developer site in the next few days where you can post questions on the forum.  Or post a comment here.

TWUIK has been eagerly awaited by the mobile development community; we have not rushed this release as we wanted to get it right from the get-go.

TWUIK will be under constant development, we here at Tricast Media value any constructive comments and feedback that will help us improving what has already proven to be a valuable mobile development commodity.

BlackBerry developers - have you noticed how all BlackBerry applications have that kind of serious, business feel to them? Do BlackBerry users enjoy applications with graphically rich interfaces, providing engaging user experiences?

Yes?

Well we though so too. So we are making it a priority now to port TWUIK to BlackBerry.

Watch this space.

Ah well, guess I’ll just hire someone to walk my dog…

TCM.

www.tricastmedia.com/twuik/

I remember all these things, and I totally worship the computer age, the availability of information, and all this simple communication. Thank you ‘The internet’.

“Why?” I hear you ask, am I taking you all a stroll down Rememberry Lane?

Well it is all very simple really…It’s all about Twitter.

I will admit it took me a little time to buy into the whole Twitter thing (as it does for anything not associated with ‘real’ objects like books and telephones that weigh in at a cool 40 Kilograms (see the first paragraphs)) and when we started developing our own Twitter Mobile application I did feel that it may well just be a passing phase.
Of course the knowledge that I was wrong (again) cheered me up no end…but the fact is that Twitter is here to stay, and is anything but a simple fad, and that’s a good thing.

The fame that Twitter that has been vicariously granted through simply being used by the famous (well, we never stop hearing about them and their antics so its maybe the same thing) has created this Twitter Monster, so thank you Chris Moyles, Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry, you are all forgiven.

Keeping this in mind we have decided, in our ineffable wisdom, that we will produce Twitter Mobile Version Two rather than upgrading Version One from Beta to General Release.

Why? Because Twitter is and is going to be HUGE! We are producing Version Two so that we can handle many, many more devices and give more of you guys out there a chance to download this wonderful, classy, and above all, free application; and with much, much more going on under the bonnet I can assure any potential Twitter Mobile Users out there that, no matter how outstanding Version One is, Version Two is going to be GREAT!

Check it out. TwitterMobile.

TCM.

We welcome all sorts of comments so please subscribe and let us know what you think, and include links to your blogs and websites also as I would like to read what you are up to as well.

You need not be Swiftian in your wit, nor Gatesian (if there indeed is such a thing) in your grasp of Technical know-how but please be assured that any questions or contributions that are made will be answered as soon as we (i.e. me) can answer them. With this in mind please make your comments sensible and clean (just imagine that your Granny is going to read them before you press the ’submit’ button). We shall be moderating this blog on a regular basis so your comments should appear fairly quickly.

That said I hope that we can start to develop a TWUIK based communtity and this is one of our goals - once we get TWUIK out there to you guys.

So any questions / comments just let us know.

T.C.

See Twitter Mobile for the free (Yes! You heard me. It’s free!) download.

Now as we all know, thanks to such celebs as Robert Llewellyn (Anyone remember Red Dwarf? Its making a comeback y’know!), and Barack Obama, Twitter is the social networking tool. You can follow your friends (and the celebs) and find out what they are thinking and doing, or thinking about doing, without ever being called a stalker.
Which is nice.

But seriously, a lot of thought has went into the production of the Twitter Mobile application and it’s out there - so download it and let us know what you think.

We are also working hard on our Tricast Mail clients, of which our V1 has just been awarded Java certification (Hurrah!), which is good but is nothing on the V2 application which comes packed with all sorts of goodies and widgets.

Come visit us HERE and see what we’re all about and find out about our TWUIK SDK. More news of that in future blog entries…

Try it out at www.twittermobile.co.uk and let us know what you think

Anyway we are back on track and hard at work putting the final touches to the release of Tricast Mail V2 and Twitter Mobile applications. We are targeting a release end of this month so remember to download your free copy when released. Play casino online.

More details on V2 and Twitter mobile to come soon but also to be announced is our ambitious roadmap of great applications to be launched this year so keep an eye on Tricatsmedia website.

It has always been in our roadmap plan and we are pleased to announce that finally, V1 is completely FREE for download

But that’s not all, we are about to launch version 2 of Tricast Mail which is better and bolder than its predecessor and that too will be completely, totally, and Irrevocably FREEEEEEE!! 

V2 is absolutely gorgeous and beats any mobile email application out in the market.  Try it out for yourself in a few weeks time. Stay tuned to www.tricastmedia.com

With the mobile internet, however the market has been highly fragmented. As smart phones are getting smarter and newer platforms like Googles’s android and Apples’s iPhones, recently-continue to enter the market. This will widen the gulf between high-end devices and low cost, mass market handsets. In this environment, content developers and application developers need access to the right kind of enabling technology to reach the mass market. They need software that can overcome fragmentation issues as well as scale to support applications as they become successful across multiple markets in the longer run.

A UI platform like TWUIK can allow developers to create beautiful applications across billions of Handsets worldwide that cover Java ME, BlackBerry Java, DOJA, BREW and Open platforms like Windows Mobile and Symbian. Popular desktop application or web application/service providers can easily bring the same experience to the mobile space using technology like TWUIK. Our rich UI framework can assist developers quickly deploy mobile solutions. Examples of some of the demo applications developed using this UI are provided on our web site under the video gallery. Feedback and comments highly appreciated

One thing about San Francisco is that we had to take a crash course in the formula for tipping in CA. Although a friend who lives locally advised us about the tips requirement during our early trips but we did not take a serious note of that. During the last few visits we have learnt that tipping does not mean any thing unless it meets the 15-20% formula. In one of the restaurant during our dinner on the first night we were asked about the service more than a dozen time. We had to make sure that we tip before leaving.

Leaving the tipping issue aside we enjoyed the technology show. The choice of food in down town area is great. San Francisco is definitely a good place to visit for business and leisure.

“Independent of those activities, we are continually upgrading the client and are happy to be partnered with Tricastmedia (they are based in the UK); they allow our crazy visions for next generation visual user interfaces to be possible on low resource devices. By the time we are finished, a child will be able to open up their parent’s mobile phone, ask “why is the sky blue?” and we will answer them a second later. This dream of bringing all human knowledge to you within a single click makes all these late nights worth it…”

To read the full article click here -> http://www.servicesmobiles.fr/services_mobiles/

URL: http://download.java.net/mobileembedded/podcasts/mobileandembedded026.mp3

Latest update: 20/11/07 - The server has been patched and fixed. Let us know if you face any problem accessing these webmail accounts, email: support@tricastmedia.com.

We are thrilled and honored to have won the “Audience Choice - Infrastructure Category” at “Under the Radar | Mobility” conference. Thanks to the hundreds of attendees who turned up there and voted for TWUIK and not forgetting to all the team at Tricast who put in many hours of hardwork.

Winning this award, is a great recognition for the good folks at Tricastmedia and also a strong vote of confidence from the people in the industry that User Interface plays a big part in your application.

And to top this good news, our friends at Yap also won accolades for their Yap9 client (UI also created with TWUIK) as the audience picked them as the winner.