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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: August 2006
Note to self: Wipe out cellphone before selling it
But do I really need a note to self for this? If you sell your current desktop PC, don't you wipe out the harddisk first to protect yourself? Even use some tool such as Heidi Computers Eraser? Well, the same … Continue reading
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The black box approach to management
A management team might work with a s/w development team directly, with daily involvement. Or, the management team can treat the s/w development team as a black box, where (business) requirements come in and (magically) functional software comes out and … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #43 at Mobile Active
The tradition continues…This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Mobile Active – cellphones for civic engagement. There you will find the best mobility bloggers, from Darla and Xen, to Martin, Justin, David, Russell, Deniss, Scott and others…. Check it … Continue reading
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Pluto not a planet, but a dwarf planet
By now you probably know that the International Astronomical Union came out with some guidelines for what is considered a planet. This effort to reclassify planets started when UB 313 (Xena) and its moon where discovered in 2003. I've mixed … Continue reading
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Mobile Monday Austin turns 1 year old… Thanks to everyone!
This month of August 2006, Mobile Monday Austin turns 1 year old… In this past year we had a great set of topics and presenters, best of the best, from Nokia and Opera Software and M:Metrics, to local startups such … Continue reading
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Free Mobile RSS Reader Loaded with 14 Essential Mobile Blogs
Cool. I just read at the Carnival of the Mobilists and MobHappy weblogs, that Russell and Carlo have put together a Free Mobile RSS Reader Loaded with 14 Essential Mobile Blogs. Pretty neat. I'm honored to be included: > C. … Continue reading
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On .mobi
I haven't expressed much about how I feel about .mobi – months ago I wrote a piece about it, but never finished editing it… Today Carlo wrote a very good piece on .mobi, which I am going to piggyback… .mobi … Continue reading
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Nokia Handset Comparison Tool
A very useful Nokia handset comparison page…
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The Sony Ericsson P990i PDA phone
The Sony Ericsson P990i PDA phone – what a neat handset: UMTS, Symbian OS 9.1 underneath, MIDP 2.0, double camera for video calls, touchscreen, and a keyboard, Bluetooth, 802.11b, and many other features. I really would like to own one. … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #41
Don't forget this week's Carnival of the Mobilists – this week at MOPocket. Good set of entries, a good read… A great mobility weblog. ceo
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Poll Results for Do you like to use Code Generators?
Do you like to use Code Generators? Below are the results for the poll: …with the majority of the respondents indicating they like using code generators as a starting point (35%). Then comes the developers who rather (completely) write their … Continue reading
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Article: The Mobile Services Architecture Specification
I wrote a short article that explains MSA. You can find it at Sun's Mobility Development Center website: The article “The Mobile Services Architecture Specification introduces JSR 248 and next generation platform for Java ME devices. See how the pieces … Continue reading
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Sun to Open-Source Java ME
Wow… Very interesting… First Motorola, with their open source projects. Now Sun is open-sourcing Java ME. This is pretty big. This will have a huge impact on how Java ME is defined (today via JCP expert groups), and developed, distributed, … Continue reading
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Carnival #40 at Abiro
This week's carnival of the mobilists is at Abiro. Also remember to vote for the best post of July. The winner receives a $250 prize from the carnival's sponsor Khosla Ventures. ceo
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Tips from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team – Defending Cell Phones and PDAs Against Attack
As cell phones and PDAs become more technologically advanced,attackers are finding new ways to target victims. By using text messaging or email, an attacker could lure you to a malicious site or convince you to install malicious code on your … Continue reading
