The Web, in its purest form - declarative HTML and CSS documents, XML feeds - is mashable, linkable, sharable. It's easy to create documents that slot into the global Web and can be accessed on any device; accessed by just a simple link. Servers can easily scale through statelessness and cacheing.

Native Mobile Apps are fast and slick. They are intimate with the dynamic, interactive, tactile mobile user interface, intimate with the capabilities of the device and intimate with the domain of mobile: photos, locations, contacts, messages.

OTS is a simple, clean, powerful approach to delivering Mobile functionality and content that is designed to realise these benefits of both Native Apps and the Web.   ...

The mobile world has been thrown into turmoil by the iPhone, and everyone is scrambling to get onto the touch-and-app-store bandwagon and to innovate their way ahead.

These are interesting times. For example, thanks to a remarkable move by Nokia, Symbian is now going to be made Open Source over the next year or so, joining Linux as one of the big two Open Source mobile operating systems.

There has recently been some discussion at CTIA about what should be the focus of the newly-formed Symbian Foundation - steward of this complex operating system and its S60 wrappers. Should it jump on the iPhone bandwagon?

I believe that the Symbian Foundation should in fact use Linux, not the iPhone, as its reference standard when setting priorities...   ...

Mobile Monday London met last night to discuss the Mobile Web and Widgets. It was an engaging and thought-provoking evening.

Your intrepid reporter was there and, in spite of the crashing of his sad, clunky old Windows Mobile Xperia X1, losing all his notes, he brings you this hot report from right out of his memory (somewhat steamed up by subsequent socialising, but reclarified by Google).

After that, I give an explanation of why I believe that Widgets are not the solution to what Mobile 2.0 needs...   ...

Mobiles are unique - if you want to miss out on the opportunity they represent, you could choose to see them as just slow computers with tiny interfaces and dodgy Internet connections. Then try to squeeze in your traditional applications; try squeezing the office desktop metaphor with its sedentary documents into a device the size of a mouse!

Alternatively, see them as the most personal, social and dynamic of devices that are becoming connected to the Internet. Now a multi-billion-scale global opportunity opens up to you. That's customers and dollars! In trying to grasp this, some are calling it 'Mobile 2.0', by analogy with its sibling, Web 2.0.

In that light, the Killer App for Mobile 2.0 is the sharer, masher and updater of People, Things, Times and Places... The key to getting Mobile 2.0 right is for it to merge seamlessly into our lives. That means the handling of dynamic and shared data becomes the top priority, even above the handling of applications.

This article describes a Mobile 2.0 platform that makes people and their stuff first class - not applications.   ...