Cody Taylor

Adorably-mascotted Firefox Mobile ‘Fennec’ is on its way to an early February release for the Windows Mobile-powered HTC Touch Pro, according to a post on the project’s developer wiki.

iPhone is not going to become the way developers create new sites from scratch (yet, anyway). But a lot of iPhone apps can make it easier to fix and manage things on the fly.

snydeq writes “Fatal Exception’s Neil McAllister offers five reasons why companies should re-consider concentrating their development efforts on browser-based apps. As McAllister sees it, Web apps encourage a thin-client approach to development that concentrates far too much workload in the datacenter. And while UI and tool limitations are well known, the Web as ‘hostile territory’ for independent developers is a possibility not yet fully understood. Sure, Web development is fast, versatile, and relatively inexpensive, but long term, the browser’s weaknesses might just outweigh its strengths as an app delivery platform.”

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Greg Huang writes “In early January, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation laid off half its staff and shed work on the Sugar graphical interface. Now, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte and president Chuck Kane for the first time detail the foundation’s new plans, describe how the XO laptop will do what netbooks can’t do, and share their hope to keep working with Sugar developer Walter Bender, who left OLPC last year.”

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Get more from this author Apple has ordered the developer of the iPhone Wobble application to remove the words “boobs” and “booty” from his publicity, despite selling more than 20000 copies of the epically pointless app.