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Welcome to About Mobility. My name is C. Enrique Ortiz and this is my blog where I cover mobile computing in general - my views on mobility, software, technologies & products, and related areas; with the occasional tangent into other unrelated thoughts. I try to blog at least once per week, if time permits.
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
The Return of Embedded Java?
The return of "Embedded Java"? Or, where have I been? I just noticed this: Java Standard Edition for Embedded Use I understand the differences from Java ME (licensing, platform, development, deployment), but I thought … Continue reading
Posted in JavaSE
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Carnival #25 is at Golden Swamp
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Judy Breck's Golden Swamp. Visit the Carnival to read some of the best mobility blogging. If you are a mobility blogger, you can join future Carnivals by submitting your entry… Enjoy the … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival Of The Mobilists
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Mobility Poll: Are You Using "Location" in Your App?
Are you using “Location” in your application? I have posted a new mobility poll to understand the distribution of developers using location in their applications. You can find the the current and past mobility polls in my Mobility Resources web … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
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The Web 2.0 from a Practical Perspective
[Updated April 30, 2006] In this essay I look at the Web 2.0 from a different perspective – the practical; the practical characteristics that have resulted in Web 2.0. “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In … Continue reading
Posted in Web 2.0
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Family Locator
Sprint has released a new service, to help you track your kids… … or track your wife, or husband, or significant other… :-/ … And for only $9.99 a month… Expect more services such as this one, 1st from startups, … Continue reading
Posted in LocationBased
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Russell Beattie's "Last Page"
Russ wrote his last page on his notebook/weblog. Hey Russ, I am looking forward to the 1st page, your first chapter of your new “book”… Lot's of great contributions by you, and you will be missed while in your break. … Continue reading
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Consequences of Social Information Overload
Derrick wrote in his blog a very interesting entry about about Rabble Addiction – about one of Rabble's users who confessed that he/she was addicted to Rabble to the point of neglecting job, friends, studies and other, even trading his/her … Continue reading
Posted in InformationOverload
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Carnival of the Mobilists # 24 @ Feep up!
The weekly Carnival of the Mobilists tradition continues – this week hosted at Feep up!. Go check it out.
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Texting and The Evolution of the Thumb
In the beginning, there was the thumb… And the thumb was good… Then came the cellphone… And the cellphone was good… Along came texting… And texting was good… But the thumb was not designed for texting, and it hurt… The … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
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MIDP 2.1 maintenance review period has been extended
Is now scheduled to close on 1 May 2006: The Maintenance Lead of the following JSR: JSR-000118 Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 has updated the Change Log posted for the second Maintenance Review. View the list of JSRs in Maintenance … Continue reading
Posted in JavaME-J2ME
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Bloglines Hidden Features
The Bloglines folks published a hidden feature or keyboard shortcut… pressing M hides/unhides the navigational frame, resulting in “maximizing/minimizing” the article's frame. Neat. I decided to go for a hunt for other hidden features, and this is what I've found … Continue reading
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Nanotechnology => Pulmonary Edema
Er… I said pulmonary edema, not enema… We should expect health concerns due to the use of nanotechnology in consumer and household products – I see the writing on the wall… Not sure if this reported case is really related … Continue reading
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RSS Feed URL Management Headache – Please Update URL to My RSS Feed
Due to historical reasons, I have too many URLs to my blog's RSS feed, for example: http://www.j2medeveloper.com/weblog/rss http://www.j2medeveloper.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 http://www.javamedeveloper.com/weblog/rss http://www.javamedeveloper.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 http://www.cenriqueortiz.com/weblog/rss http://www.cenriqueortiz.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 Plus URLs to Atom, RDF, and XML feeds to the above TLDs. A management headache… It would be … Continue reading
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Google Team says – It's Time
Who said Google was a search company? In the beginning it was. Today Google is a collaboration company: IM, email, calendar, writing, maps, and searching, and so on. Maybe they should package their collaboration related products under the Google Collaboration … Continue reading
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New Member of the Family
My blog has been very quiet lately, but for good reasons: ceo
Posted in Personal
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