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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: December 2006
Thoughts on Mobility 2007
This is my last weblog entry for 2006, where I'll share with you some thoughts about Mobility in the year 2007… It has been almost a decade since I first realized the potential of mobile & wireless, and the impact … Continue reading
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Important Java ME Milestones: MIDP3 Early Draft Review, MSA Final Release
During the month of December 2006 two very important Java ME specifications milestones were reached: MIDP3 (JSR 271) entered the Early Draft Review phase Mobile Service Architecture (JSR 248) is now final release Two important specifications indeed… MIDP3 is introducing … Continue reading
Posted in JavaME-J2ME
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M:Metrics reports on teen demographics, mobile-social network and user-generated content
Source: M:Metrics, Inc., Copyright © 2006. One of the hot mobility areas in to keep watch in 2007+ is the intersection of mobility and social software: mobile social software, virtual communities, messaging and user-generated content. Earlier this month M:Metrics published … Continue reading
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Deadline for JavaOne Call For Papers is the worst possible time
I missed the deadline (again) for JavaOne submissions… December is just the worst possible time for this: the end of the year rush for both business + family, etc… JavaOne submission deadline should be sometime in January, as in the … Continue reading
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A bad user experience can span generations
While talking to my daughter earlier today, I realized how a bad user experience could ruin a product and/or brand across generations, and decades. In our case, it was about a car maker. Around 10 months ago I bought a … Continue reading
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Bill Day's new discussion forums and Java ME archive
Bill has added a new Java ME and realated discussion forums to his site, go check it out. He also has renamed the old “J2ME Archive” to be the “Java ME Archive” to reflect the rebranding of “J2ME” as “Java … Continue reading
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About Mobile AJAX, or, mojax is not Mobile AJAX
I read Barbara's (Little Spring Design) piece titled the un-browsers where she describes mFoundry's mojax mobile application framework. I know about mFoundry from before, but wasn't aware of mojax. mojax is their a Mobile “AJAX” application platform, so I went … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
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The Web x.0, past, present and future
The Web is constantly evolving. The web's major milestones are a reflection of the impact made to our society (regardless of the technologies behind it). These milestones or revolutions have been tipping points; the moment when previously unique Web becomes … Continue reading
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Back from Mont Tremblant and Merry Xmas!
We are back from the Province of Quebec, Canada, where we were on vacation and had a great time… Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the Holidays, let me start with a photo of the Nativity taken at La basilique … Continue reading
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Traveling… and Happy Holidays!
I am off to my ski vacation trip, back in a week… My weblog will be very quiet until then… When I return, I have some code to share, new technical articles, and I will also tell you about a … Continue reading
Posted in General
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Mobility Resources Customized Google Search
I've added to my mobility resources and weblog web sites support for mobility-specific Google searching; check it out. I will continue tuning the search engine over time. Google search results customized by Mobility Resources using Google Co-op ceo
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When it comes to gadgets, how small is too small?
From Wired Magazine, Nov 2006: “The most amazing oversight in electronics design is that although the technologies are shrinking at increasing speeds, our hands are not…” Bryce Rutter, Founder of Metaphase Design Group
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Betting on the All-in-One Handset
Gaming, on-line gaming, seamless voice, push-to-talk, VoIP, video sharing and streaming, entertainment, access to work, email, music, IM, payments, SMS, mobile web, etc, etc, etc. The All-in-One handset. BussinessWeek reports that DoCoMo is betting on the All-in-One Gizmo. Mike Elgan … Continue reading
Posted in Handsets
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Paxmodept's Javascript Test Suite for Mobile Browsers
Jason at Paxmodept has created a (basic at the moment) test suite to help investigate Javascript and DOM support/capabilities in mobile browsers. See his announcement. ceo
Posted in MobileWeb
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Google releases Patent Search
Google has released the beta version of Google Patent Search, with full text search of the U.S. patents. Note this first version is for granted or issued patents, and not patents in progress. This is going to be a very … Continue reading
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