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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: June 2006
Carnival of the Mobilist – Pick the Best Post For June
The poll for the Carnival's best post for June is up… My entry, “The Mobile Perimeter” is running – if you liked it, feel free to vote for me! ceo
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Carnival of the Mobilists 34 at W2F
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Jan Kuczynski at the Wireless World Forum – go check it out. Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click … Continue reading
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Elements of Social Networks Software
On his blog, Tristan Louis wrote 5 reasons why social networks can succeed. But what Tristan has described is much more than 5 reasons to succeed – he described the true essence of social networks software: Viral Nature Provides an … Continue reading
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Intel selling its phone-chip unit to Marvell is a big deal – think XScale
It is all over the news: Intel sells phone-chip unit to Marvell for $600 million… Buckley of MobHappy wrote on his blog about how this decision may signify the beginning of the death of Intel. While I don't think it … Continue reading
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On J2ME MIDP Navigation
Barbara and Tom Hume got it right – mobile applications should really follow the underlying UI metaphor/behavior vs. implementing their own in an attempt to create “consistency across handsets”… From the developer's perspective, initially it may seem such consistency is … Continue reading
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Soccer Hurts
Like the 1975 Nazareth song, Love hurts… but this time is about soccer… Soccer hurts, Soccer scars, Soccer wounds, and marks… If you follow soccer, and play soccer, you know how physical the game could be… And last week was … Continue reading
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Results for Developer Survey – Are You Using "Location" in Your App?
The bar chart below shows the results for the developer survey “Are you using “Location” in your app?”, as of June 25th, 2006. A total of 90 developers have responded. As with past polls, this poll will remain open to … Continue reading
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Is your text-typing speed slow? You may have Dystextia
While texting – communicating with text messaging, is great, the act of texting itself (typing) I hate – texting is a pain in the thumb. T9 and similar technologies never worked to my satisfaction… This is why I rather use … Continue reading
Tom on Flash Lite
Tom Landspurg wrote a good piece, his perspective on Flash Lite, check it out – Another Flash from J2me developer perspective (Part1) From the Flash Lite website: What Is Flash Lite? Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically developed for … Continue reading
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Java ME – Summary of CLDC-Based Profiles
“Explore CLDC and the Profiles defined for use with the Connected Limited Device Configuration. Enrique Ortiz writes about the most common Java ME execution environment.” » Read Summary of CLDC-Based Profiles ceo
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Carnival of the Mobilists 33
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Rudy at his m-trends.org weblog… Great set of submitted articles covering a wide spectrum of mobility – go check it out. And good job by Rudy this week. Visit the Carnival … Continue reading
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Nokia to stop making CDMA phones
From Nokia to stop making CDMA phones: “The Finnish company said on Thursday it would pull out of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phone manufacturing, which it sees as a shrinking market in the longer term.” “CDMA is the less … Continue reading
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Get Your Patents Early (and wait 14 years)
Not sure if it is a typo or if it is for real, but Dennis Crouch of Patently-O: Patent Law Blog reports of a case where the PTO gave an estimate for a recently filed application, that it will be … Continue reading
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The Actionable Mobile Context
The Mobile Context is comprised of many elements that distinguishes it from the desktop context. Some of these elements are time, space, the mobile perimeter, the social and personal aspects, and other, and how these define and effect the mobile … Continue reading
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New Web 2.0 Buzzwords
New set of buzzwords… “Enterprise Mashup” (Mashups as a Service) SOA 2.0 Web-Oriented Architecture Bottom line… It is about Web 2.0 in the Enterprise. ceo
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