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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: March 2007
Z750 MSA-compliant phone from Sony Ericsson
Z750 HSDPA phone I was expecting the first MSA phones to come out around the summer time, but SE's announcement of the Z750 beat that. Awesome. The first MSA phone on the market… The SE Z750, a tri-band HSDPA and … Continue reading
The Next Battlefront (for Mobile Applications)
One of the next “battlefronts” for mobile application vendors will widgets and the idle (standby) screen – who gets to deploy to it, and the user experience. It will be a "nasty" battle between application providers, network operators, maybe even … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #66
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Rafe Blandford's All About Symbian; 19 entries from context in mobility to Oz' IM. Very good entries overall, but two entries caught my eyes specially (not in any particular order): 1) … Continue reading
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Latest Microsoft Update – The Big Brother Patch
What the hell… so there is a new Microsoft XP patch (update)… it is about the “Genuine Windows Notification”… The EULA says “WILL HELP YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE RUNNING A PROPERLY LICENSED…” Hm… is the intention to let me … Continue reading
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Mobile Web FAQ
I started putting together a Mobile Web FAQ with focus on design, development and resources, including answers to questions such as what is the Mobile Web, Widgets and Mobile Widgets, future and other. This FAQ should in theory complement Ajit's … Continue reading
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Mobile Widgets – Mobease acquired by Webwag
Congratulations to my friend Thomas Landspurg and the rest of his team on the acquisition of Mobease by Webwag. Tom, their CTO, is a mobility expert, blogger, and mobile widget evangelist, visionary, and implementer; Tom is also the person … Continue reading
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New Article: Using the PIM API for Java ME, Part 4 – Design Considerations
[Update: Fixed hyperlink to part 4, and added links to previous parts (thanks Anders!)] Part 4 of Using the PIM API for Java ME covers some design considerations when using the PIM API. Now it's time to explore design issues … Continue reading
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Mobile Monday Austin @ Gregg Sporar's and Stuart Mark's Blogs
On his weblog, Gregg Sporar, one of the speakers at the March's Mobile Monday Austin, wrote about the event and posted some pictures. Stuart Marks, who also presented, also wrote about the event on his blog, and posted his slides. … Continue reading
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SxSWi – There's no Such Thing as the Mobile Web (Or Is There?)
Pictured above are, from left to right, Dwipal Desai of youtube.com, Carlo Longino of Techdirt / MobHappy, Michael Sippey, VP Prod at Six Apart Ltd, Daniel Appelquist, Sr Technology Strategist at Vodafone, and Bob Morgan, VP North America at Cognima/ShoZu. … Continue reading
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Enhancing the Bluetooth User Experience with NFC
The Bluetooth 2.1 is incorporating NFC. This is a very interesting and smart approach. The core concept is the use of NFC during the “authenticate” pairing interactions, vs. the use of passcodes over Bluetooth itself… the result, a much better … Continue reading
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New Article: Using the PIM API for Java ME, Part 3 – Security Considerations
Part 3 of Using the PIM API for Java ME, covers security considerations when using the PIM API. Will your application protect the user's address book, calendar and to-do list? In part 3 learn how PIM is designed to work … Continue reading
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Texas is the best place ($) for software developers
Michael Yuan has a great post on Texas as the best place for software developers… where he summarizes salary data for the top 10 cities in the U.S. After adjusting for cost of living, the first 5 spots are all … Continue reading
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A Day at the Park (Enchanted Rock)
It was supposed to be a fun day at the park… but holding that gigantic rock from tipping over was hard work! At the end I had to let it go… ceo
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RIP John W. Backus – Mathematician, Pioneer, Builder, Lead Creator of FORTRAN, and many other
John Backus, a pioneer in programming languages, passed away at the age of 82. He lead the creation of FORTRAN, both the language and its advanced compiler. Also, with Peter Naur, developed the Backus-Naur notation – a (still) very important … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #65
If you haven't yet, check out the latest installment of Carnival of the Mobilists, #65, at Judy Breck's Golden Swamp. Over 15 mobility blog entries, covering topics such as social networking, mobile structure, network environments, and user subjects. Good stuff… … Continue reading
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