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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: September 2006
The Car of the Future
While driving to work yesterday morning, the traffic was heavy. I stopped at the gas station to refuel. While the gas prices have been getting lower, the prices are still expensive (I was able to find a gas station with … Continue reading
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Good article on using JUnit for Java ME
A good artile by Jim White on JUnit Testing Using Java ME JUnit Framework… ceo
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.mobi public registration now open
It is all over the Web — .mobi public registration is now open. So I went to my registrar Dotster and checked the prices for .mobi… not that I really want to register a .mobi TLD, but to have a … Continue reading
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Ask Google
There was a couple. And the couple was chatting. “Honey, but how do we get to the fields?”, asked the spouse. “Let's ask Google, Google knows everything”… the spouse answered. And the couple smiled, and Googled away for the fields…, … Continue reading
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Tom on Myths of mobile Web2.0 (and mobile Ajax)
See Tom Landspurg's Myths of mobile Web2.0 (and mobile Ajax). Good piece. I share many of Tom's viewpoints, and as a matter of fact, Tom and I are very much in sync, to the point that Ajit's SoonR and Mobile … Continue reading
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Texas Wireless Summit 2006
I'm on my way to the Texas Wireless Summit 2006 – see the event's program. Good set of speakers. I'm looking forward to listen to what they have to say… ceo
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SMS Penetration rate in Argentina
According to the Prince & Cooke consultancy group, SMS penetration in Argentina is 97% if users under 18 are taken into account, and 92% otherwise. That's a very high pen rate. And that translates to one thing: Argentinians are a … Continue reading
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Two new books by fellow mobilists
Two fellow mobilists have recently published books… one book is on communication systems, and the other on Mobile Web 2.0. Both authors are great mobility bloggers, and leaders in the mobility space. Congrats to both… Communication Systems for the Mobile … Continue reading
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MIDP: Accessing a Resource over HTTP
Read my latest article Accessing a Resource over HTTP, a concise example of how to use the MIDP HttpConnection and GET method to retrieve content given a URI and MIME-type. Read this one carefully, as it will be used in … Continue reading
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12 Astronauts in Space, Station is now Half Built
12 Astronauts in space at the same time… I think that is a new record, isn't? 6 astronauts in the Shuttle STS-115, 3 in the space station, and 3 in the Soyuz spacecraft… Lots of tense people on the ground … Continue reading
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Sony's Mylo Gadget
Sony's specialized messaging handset, the Mylo gadget, is a small, Wi-Fi enabled handset that provides a Web browser, messaging, phone and digital music player. See more at Sony's Mylo site. Also see Engadget's review, and Gizmodo's video at YouTube. Seems … Continue reading
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MobileCrunch Presents Carnival of the Mobilists #45
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists, the week’s best blogging about mobile, is at Oliver's MobileCrunch. As always, great stuff… ceo
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On Sybase/Mobile 365 and MySpace/UIEvolution
Two recent (and relatively quiet) mobile industry news caught my attention: Sybase/Mobile 365 – Sybase acquires Mobile 365. Mobile 365, a messaging infrastructure provider, will be operating as Sybase Mobile 365, a wholly-owned subsidiary. This will give Sybase an edge … Continue reading
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Human Computation – Games with a purpose
See a very good and entertaining talk on Human Computation and “games with a purpose” by Luis von Ahn, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. What an ingenious method to have humans help solve the … Continue reading
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Joel on Sprint's LG Fusic cellphone
OMG, you guys have to read Joel's review of Sprint's LG Fusic handset. Joel cracks me up! A good, honest review. The following is just one of the examples of the handset's poor UI design/experience that he brings up: “The … Continue reading
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