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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: May 2006
Mobile Banking has Finally Arrived
Is mobile banking finally here (I mean, in the U.S.)? It has taken financial institutions a long time to understand and feel comfortable with the technologies behind mobile banking, as well as understanding the implications to the financial institutions and … Continue reading
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The "Web 2.0" Service Mark Debacle
“Do as I say not as I do!” The Web 2.0 is supposed to be about the open, collective, community-based use and evolution of the Web, so what happened here when O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0″ and sets lawyers on IT@Cork? … Continue reading
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Theory vs. Practice
Theory “a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; “theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses”; … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists # 29 at Open Gardens
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Ajit Jaokar’s Open Gardens weblog… Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click on the above Carnival of the Mobilists button … Continue reading
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Launch Photography
I found a very neat web site called Total Eclipse (http://www.launchphotography.com) by photographer Ben Cooper, with photos of current and past Space Shuttle and other rocket launches, for example, you will find a great collection of new photos of the … Continue reading
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Mobility Blog Star – The Pondering Primate
Every now and then I like to write about a (mobility) blogger that I really like… And today, I want to write about The Pondering Primate weblog… And while he is known as the Pondering Primate, his real name is … Continue reading
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The Problem with Mobile
On his blog, Seth Godin asks himself “Why hasn't the whole cell phone industry exploded?“. While Seth's believes it is because "we've been trying to solve the wrong problem.", that is not the true reason… The problem is twofold – … Continue reading
Posted in GoingToMarket
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The Mobile Services Architecture (Proposed) Final Specification
The Mobile Services Architecture (JSR-248) or MSA is almost final. The MSA expert group has published the Proposed Final Draft Specification: “This JSR creates a mobile service architecture and platform definition for the high volume wireless handsets continuing the work … Continue reading
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Gyros on Mobile Handsets – A Very Powerful Tool
InvenSense has released their Integrated Dual-Axis Gyroscope… Very neat, great potential. More than half a year ago I was immersed in a thinking session, when the idea of using the dimension of space for mobile applications and presence came about … Continue reading
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The Mobile Perimeter
Perimeter: The distance around a figure. The other day I read via Textually/Ringtonia about a fight that broke out in the Iraqi parliament after a mobile phone ringtone played a Shia Muslim chant – see Shia ringtone sparks scuffle in … Continue reading
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DISCLAIMER – HANDSET AND HANDSET USAGE WARNING
Due to recent circumstances, we have been forced to write the following disclaimer… DISCLAIMER – HANDSET AND HANDSET USAGE WARNING – Handsets and its software can be unpredictable and unsafe. Handsets can be dangerous. It has been reported all around … Continue reading
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Mobile Monday Global Summit and Peer Awards
Mobile Monday Global Summit and Peer Awards – May 8-9, Helsinki, Finland. We are happy to announce the Mobile Monday Austin nominees for the Global Peer Awards: B2C Category: Bones in Motion B2B Category: Opera Software Congratulations to the nominees! … Continue reading
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John Carmack on Mobile – He Really Gets It
John Carmack of id Software understands what mobile software development is all about…he really does. I am going to quote to pieces from an interview of him by GameSpot titled “Carmack bitten, smitten by mobile bug“, that tells a lot … Continue reading
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Mechanical Turks, Answers, and the Attribution Problem
The permalink for article Mechanical Turks, Answers, and the Attribution Problem has changed to: http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/general/2006/05/01/mechanical-turks-answers-and-the-attribution-problem-2 This was due to change in category from “/” to “General”… Sorry for the inconvenience – Blojsom doesn't handle category changes that great
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Mechanical Turks, Answers, and the Attribution Problem
Mechanical Turks, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, web services, blog aggregators, web searches, screen scraping, data and information, copyright and attribution… With the rise of “easy access to information” comes a relatively new, still untapped solution vertical: Answers… Amazon offers its Mechanical … Continue reading
