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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.
All opinions you read here are my own and are not necessarily those of my employer. See my About and my Legal pages.
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Is your application CUP'ed?
If your application doesn't provide CUP, or “convenience, utility and productivity”, then you must go back to the drawing board… ceo
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Daniel on The Three Halves of Seamless Mobility
A great piece by Daniel at the Mobile Enterpise Weblog — see The Three Halves of Seamless Mobility… Daniel provides a good historical background, talks about the split we currently have between voice and mobile, and other walls. I would … Continue reading
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Hot Areas in Mobility (to follow and be part of)
There are plenty of areas in mobility yet to be developed to its fullest potential. Below is a list of some of the “hot areas in mobility” to follow, or even better, to be part of and make a difference … Continue reading
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Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) Hardware Requirements And Defragmentation, Trusted Environment Spec
The Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) forum, an operator-sponsored forum, has released a set of guidelines for mobile terminals such as PDAs and smartphones. The purpose of the guidelines is to minimize fragmentation across handsets. The guidelines OMTP Hardware Requirements … Continue reading
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Mobile data consumption is about access to relevant information
Read via MocoNews that Telephia and ComScore revealed that on mobiles more people like to access weather information, while on the PC it is about searching… Let me tell you why I'm not surprised with these results… and why this … Continue reading
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Mobile Marketing Association Best Practices Guidelines
The Mobile Marketing Association has released the latest version of their Consumer Best Practices Guidelines for Cross-Carrier Mobile Content Programs (in PDF format). The guidelines include information on: General Conduct Advertising and Promotion Opt-in Standard Rate Programs Premium Rate Programs … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #55
Checkout Eli Dickinson's Carnival of the Mobilists at FierceDeveloper… Posts by Mobilists including Ajit, StayGoLinks, Russel Buckley, Eli, Mike Rowehl, and many others… ceo
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Sony Ericsson releases package for UIQ 3 based Web Services
From the Sony Ericsson press release: “With the new Web Services for UIQ 3 package released today, Sony Ericsson gives developers an easy solution including guidance on how to access remote services over the internet on UIQ 3 phones using … Continue reading
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The 10 principles of Assembly Java
A good compilation of tips by Mihai Preda's of the The anatomy of a project weblog. These are tips to consider to help keep your Java ME code small. I have used many of them, and some of these tips … Continue reading
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Ten reasons why every programmer should learn C
The C Language is probably the most important programming language; it is fast, compact, and pervasive, and it exposes programmers to very important skills and concepts; you can't be sloppy when using C. The C Language is the language of … Continue reading
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SMS-based mobile attack by sending invisible and unnoticeable SMS messages
“Simply by sending an invisible and unnoticeable SMS message to a particular cell phone, spying on cell phone users has become child's play.” Note sure the validity of this, but it's important to be aware of this security exposure… I … Continue reading
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Google: mobile operators want to block our apps
Jason at the Paxmodept Blog points out an article at ZDNet UK about Google and its struggles with operators who want to block Google applications. Oh boy… not even Google can be saved from this one… that says a whole … Continue reading
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Mike R on "US Carriers Developer Hostility Hits a New High"
Mike Rowehl writes about something that has me perplexed, upset, and furious – see All traffic to US handsets require a valid short code registered with the different networks. This is a very big deal. And is no good… Closed … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #54
Visit Judy Breck’s Golden Swamp for this week's Carnival of the Mobilists… A number of great and varied entries by Mobilists from around the world… I have to admit folks that I totally forgot to submit my entry — I've … Continue reading
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Java ME GPL Clarification by Terrence Barr, Sun Java Mobile & Embedded Evangelist
Terrence (and his team?) was kind enough to spend some time clarifying the concerns related to Java ME and the new GPL licensing model… read Interpreting Java under GPL — does it force applications to be GPL as well? Awesome. … Continue reading
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