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Hi folks and friends, here are some great news for Webwag:

• First of all our strengths in the past months have been put in discussing with large customers about what they expected about mobile and web convergence. The good news is that they share our visions and some deployments are currently being prepared.
• Franck has been key in the history of Webwag but our focus on convergence and B2B lead us to look for a new CEO that had both a large scale B2B experience and strong mobile competencies and network. We are pleased to welcome Stéphane Labrunie , former SVP Sales and Marketing of I-Play (a leading company in casual web and mobile games) as Webwag’s new CEO.
• Some of you have already had the pleasure (if they are SFR customers) to test the new Webwag Mobile 2.0 beta. In a few weeks invites to a private beta will be made available. Meanwhile, here are a few teaser screenshots.

ps: The news has already spread over the web here, there and in other places.

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Update: Real annoucements here

The magic of the internet & wikipedia tells us what will be released at macworld. Pretty sure this is not a scam! So here we go:

New iPhone!
Not a big revolution here, but Apple introduces the awaited 16GB version at $499. The 8GB version remains at $399.

iPhone/iPod touch SDK
Now, this is big news, even if awaited, it will now be legit to develop apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch, better late than never!  Most important is that price range of the apps is controlled by Apple. Not only apps but also widgets can be developed and developers must submit source code! The SDK becomes available Wednesday as a beta and finalized in february. In details:

• Developers can create both Applications and Widgets
• Using Cocoa with Objective-C
• Developers submit programs as source code, not executable! Pretty sure this will cause issues to some developers
• Specify iPhone or both iPhone/Touch (certain features iPhone only)
• Price of the apps range from $0-$6.99, Widgets’ prices range $0-$2.99
• Developers get 70% of the price
  
• Users buy/download in iTunes Wi-Fi Store / iTunes Store (Mac/PC)
• Automatic updating wirelessly or when docked:
• When: Developers can get their hands on a beta version of the SDK tomorrow on ADC and start developing; final version due early February

iPhone 1.1.3 new apps update
This part is certainly uncomplete since it doesn’t feature the other 1.1.3 enhancements  but here are the highlights found on Wikipedia:
New/available apps for download include:
Apps

• iChat (AIM, Jabber/Google Talk)
• RSS Feed Reader(read feeds online or off)
• Last.fm (scrobble tracks played on iPhone/touch wirelessly without syncing w/ computer) (not directly in 1.1.3)

Widgets

• Dictionary (quickly look up words, translate, use wikipedia)
• Yellow/White Book (search for contacts, add them to your address book directly from the app, will sync back with address book on your Mac/PC)
• Sports Ticker (choose your sports and teams, get updates on their progress)
• Twitter (not directly in 1.1.3)

New Macbooks
This is the news I expected the most: New Macbooks, thinner 0.8 inch/2cm compared to actual 2.75cm! (certainly lighter) and with a wow 1440×900 resolution, starting at $1199. Here are the details:
- What would MacWorld be without a new Mac? (sorry about last year)

• Completely redesignd with aluminum body like MacBook Pro
• 13″ screen at 1440×900
• Two colors: Black and Silver
• Only 0.8″/2 centimeters
• DVD drive pops open on side when eject button is pressed (we’ll see how this looks)
• New on all notebooks and iMac: iSight HD (720p), means better resolution photos and video conferencing
• New backlit keyboard based on recent Apple Keyboard revisions (keys slightly lighter than that of laptop casing, colorwise)
• New matching MagSafe cable (Aluminum ends, cord color matches that of keyboard)
• New matching Apple Remote (slightly smaller with larger overall buttons)
• Graphics card: Intel GMA X3100
• There are 3 models
• Completely phasing out the combo drive on all product lines today
• BTO models can upgrade all the way to 2.6GHz/4GB Memory/320GB hard drive
• 4.5 hours of battery life
• Starting at $1199

Others
Apple is releasing on tuesday a big 10.5.2 and upgraded their mac pro line this week

Credits: Thanks to  www.switchingtomac.com for the news & details!

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So, last week at leweb3, we demonstrated our beta version of Webwag iPhone to many partners, visitors and journalists.

The feedback has really been extremely good, outlining a cool intuitive user interface along with a very lightweight product.

Here are a few videos shot at leweb3 on the topic with more to come (FR).

Go to the original blog (Accessoweb & Tapahont) to get exclusive invites to this beta!

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Today is a special and exceptional day; after long months of work, we’ve just announced Webwag mobile 1.0 with many great new things for users, developers & brands, thanks to the great feedback received from users and professionals.

To get Webwag mobile now, simply point your mobile browser to webwag.com/m or your pc/mac browser to webwag.com/mobile.

You can read the full official post and press release here.

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Today’s a great day both for Webwag and for what used to be the Mobease team (Thomas, Seb, Jérémie…), now part of Webwag. Webwag mobile widgets become available publicly.

After more than 1 year of development, we’re happy to announce that you can now sync your favorite home page content with your mobile, in a snap. This is the vision that we’ve had since the beginning: Allow anyody to consume the internet from mobile, with beautifully simple widgets and sync it with an equivalent web service.

So enough of theory, with Webwag mobile, what do you get:

• REAL WIDGETS FOR YOUR MOBILE!
• Cutting edge RSS feeds reading
• Mail viewer for gmail, yahoo! & any pop3 compatible service
• Weather forecasts
• Flickr browser
• Web synched Notes
• & a clock

Much more widgets & features from us in the coming weeks but also from you since we will open up the SDK really soon.

Currently supported handsets include the latest Nokia, SonyEricsson & Motorola with more to come rapidly (Blackberry Pearl for instance ;)). If you’re adventurous, you can try on unsupported mobiles but we don’t guarantee anything.

So now that you’ve read this, how do you get it? Easy, just point your mobile browser to webwag.com/m or go to webwag.com/mobile with your computer.

One last point before the tradional screenies, we’re opening 3 new positions:

• Mobile software developer: J2ME or other mobile programming experience needed
• Web developer: AJAX, JAVAscript, PHP & possibly RoR should be close to your mother tongues!
• Quality assurance manager: Ideally with experience both on mobile and web quality assurance.

Send motivation & CVs to jobs at webwag dot com.

So here’s what it looks like on the mobile

And our “one more thing” (Webwag’s new looks).

So enjoy and give feedback (feedback at webwag dot com)!

Here are the official Press releases:  French English

Technorati Tags: mobidgets, webwag, widget

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