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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: July 2006
Carnival of the Mobilists #38 at SmartMobs.com
This week's Carnival of the Mobilist is at SmartMobs… Judy has done a wonderful job compiling this week's carnival, which is getting better and better each week. Also this week, the Khosla Ventures winners of last month's Carnival were announced … Continue reading
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Computer Animated Music
I've to admit, I love computer animations… I admire the folks that have the talent to create virtual worlds that transcend reality. And I love computer animations with music… If you too, checkout Animusic — it is pretty awesome… STARSHIP … Continue reading
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Shawn on Social Networking
A very good piece by Shawn Conahan of Intercasting Corp., makers of Rabble – see “Social Networking” is a Construct (part 1 of 2). I share many of Shawn's concepts and definitions. Related to this topic see Elements of Social … Continue reading
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Google Code Project Hosting – We want your code too!
Google has introduced Google Code Project Hosting… their open source project hosting offering that competes with SourceForge. Google… Google… they know our searching patterns and web content (Google search), our email (Gmail) and IM (Google Talk) conversations, our blogs preferences … Continue reading
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The Mobile Internationalization API for J2ME, MSA, and MicroI18N to the rescue
One of “new” JSRs in the block is the Mobile Internationalization API (JSR 238). This specification defines localization resource file formats and their organization, and of course, the API itself to manage the resources. With the Mobile Services Architecture specification … Continue reading
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W3C on the future of Device Description Repository
From W3C: Participants in the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository have published their report. … the workshop participants debated the expected nature of the Device Description Repository (DDR). All agreed it should be simple. The … Continue reading
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Mobile JUnit 1.0 for Java ME CLDC phones
Just read via Wendong's Smart Phone Weblog that Sony Ericsson has released Mobile JUnit 1.0 for Java ME CLDC phones. ceo
Posted in JavaME-J2ME
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Call for MMS Applications (Cingular)
If you have an MMS application that you want to put it front of Cingular's marketing folks, do the following: In 2-3 sentences, write why your application is unique and how a customer will benefit from it. What multimedia components … Continue reading
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37 Years Ago Today….
The date was July 20, 1969. The mission was Apollo 11. A day like today, 37 years ago, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon… Forgotten by many, the trio of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, together with thousands … Continue reading
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Is coding in Java ME really a pain? Part II
The act of coding vs. the act of deploying… Is coding deploying in Java ME really a pain? Previously I wrote Is coding in Java ME really a pain? where I bring up a couple of points on that topic. … Continue reading
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The Sudden Death of the IDE Market
The commercial (Java) IDE market has been going through a transformation that started more than 3 years ago. And it all started with the introduction of NetBeans and Eclipse free IDEs. I remember (and experienced in person) the love-hate relationship … Continue reading
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The (Relative) Truth behind Zinedine Zidane (Zizou) Head-butt World Cup Incident
OMG! A friend sent me these in an email… but there was no attribution. I don't know who created these sequences, but whoever did, thank you! This is so funny! If you know who created these, please leave a comment … Continue reading
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The Texas Independent Game Conference
The Texas Independent Game Conference takes place in Austin on July 22nd/23rd and attendees will get the chance to hear from indie veterans willing to share their successes and their experience as well as presentations addressing market trends, distribution, on-line … Continue reading
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Congratulations to the FIFA World Cup Winners
Just wanted to congratulate the Italians, 2006 FIFA World Cup Champions… Congratulations also to France and Germany… … Continue reading
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Developer Poll: Do You Like to Use Code Generators?
Development tools are getting very sophisticated, helping developers generate UI, base code structure, and more. But do you like using code generators? Or do you prefer to crank out all your code manually? I've put together a poll to see … Continue reading
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