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Monthly Archives: September 2006

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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 $2.29/gallon). This gave…

Good article on using JUnit for Java ME

A good artile by Jim White on JUnit Testing Using Java ME JUnit Framework… ceo

.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 first look at…

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…, “I told you…

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 AJAX article triggered…

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

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 bunch of social,…

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 Information Society Martin…

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 a future technical…

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 monitoring 3 manned…