A short article to describe what's new in ELIPS Studio, this time for Beta 4 (out today), and what's coming next in Beta 5.

Benchmark sneak peek of FP10.1 on Google NexusOne from Mobile World Congress shows that Actionscript code compiled with OpenPlug ELIPS Studio executes an order of magnitude faster than when interpreted in Flash Player on mobile devices.

[Update on March 4th: this article has been edited following readers comments given offline. A bug in our CMS was preventing from leaving comments. This is now fixed. Apologies to our readers, those at fault have been fired :) Edits are denoted with brackets and strikethrough text]

Web 2.0 is all about sharing information, interacting and collaborating on the web. Many web services as provided by Google, Facebook or Twitter are used on a day-to-day basis by millions of people worldwide. With mobile devices on their way to become the dominant access mode, there is a growing demand for connected mobile applications... and a huge opportunity for mobile developers in combining multiple web services into value-added applications called mashups.

Guess what? That is exactly where ELIPS Studio can help.

Openplug was at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week and here are the highlights after a hectic week packed with meetings, on- and off-site events, networking parties (yes, this IS work) and lots of walking and talking …