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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: May 2007
The new Microsoft Surface, with advanced kernel debugging
Got the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) while using the new Microsoft Surface? No Worries… The new Microsoft Surface comes with a new interactive, multi-touch-screen kernel-level debugging support! …and it is so good, that even users play with and smile … Continue reading
On Intellectual Property: obviousness-by-combination
New IP could be based on other's prio-art; this actually occurs often. Below is the Forgent v. EchoStar Jury Instructions on Obviousness: “One way to decide whether one of ordinary skill in the art would combine what is described in … Continue reading
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A true desk-top (surface) user interface
Gosh, I always wanted one of these true surface desk-tops computing interfaces, since the day I saw the movie Tron back in 1982. While the desk-top surface user interface at Tron wasn't touch-screen (that I can remember) or as advanced … Continue reading
Posted in HCI
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Carnival of the Mobilists 75
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Andreas Constantinou and Hampus Jakobsson's VisionMobile Forum. The folks at VisionMobile, which is one of my favorite mobility blogs, selected the top 10 mobility submissions from the blogosphere… It has been a … Continue reading
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The Mobile Operational Management Spec (JSR 232) – about management, fragmentation, and what about MIDP?
The OSGi Framework The JSR 232 Mobile Operational Management Java specification caught the attention of many at JavaOne 2007. A great set of blog post/essays by David Beers on this topic: Is OSGi the Solution for Mobile Java? OSGi and … Continue reading
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On UI design, demos, expectation setting, practicality, and the technical realities of our space
If you are commissioning mobile software design and development work for your product, read below… It is great (ideal) to have UI designers design the ideal user experience and related assets. And it is important to have these UI designers … Continue reading
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NetBeans Mobility Pack Article: Creating a Mobile-to-Web Service Application
Michal Skvor describes how to use the End-to-End Connection Bridge technology in the NetBeans Mobility Pack to create a mobile client application that consumes a Web service to retrieve the Dilbert daily comic strip, and places it in a LCDUI … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
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Next MobileMonday Austin event: Mobile Banking and Payments, June 11 '07
Join us to learn about mobile banking and payments. Speakers will cover mobile banking and payment industry metrics, followed by wireless banking and payments over the years and today. Also covered are the challenges and lessons learned related to bringing … Continue reading
Posted in MobileMonday Austin
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Standardizing location-based services (LBS)
The ISO has been working on a number of specifications to standardize Geographic information or Geomatics. Below is some information related to this. 1. ISO 19134 “ISO 19134 specifies the data types and their associated operations for the implementation of … Continue reading
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Java Mobility Podcast 5: A Talk With Java ME Expert C. Enrique Ortiz
From Java Mobility Podcasts #5: C. Enrique Ortiz, a recognized mobility expert, renowned blogger, developer, and author, touches on a range of mobility topics in this interview, including: moving to CDC; the latest JSRs that are important to mobile developers; … Continue reading
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Congrats to Intercasting Corp on their recent round of funding
Above: Intercasting's Anthem Platform in action… I want to congratulate Intercasting Corp., and Derrick Oien (who last year presented at Mobile Monday Austin) and Shawn Conahan, and their teams, on their recent round of funding earlier this month; good times. … Continue reading
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ACM Queue: Articles on SIP
The ACM Queue magazine has published a number of great articles on SIP. Some of the articles of interest include: SIP Primer, SIP Glossary, Unified Communications with SIP, Decentralizing SIP, and Making SIP make Cents. ceo
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Dell says "Don't look for wireless phone soon", and why Dell will never succeed on the mobile phone business
There has been some speculation about a possible Dell-branded mobile phone, speculations that were further fueled when the company hired Motorola executive Ron Garriques earlier this year. More recently, Mr. Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Inc., said that … Continue reading
Mobile Web FAQ has been updated
The Mobility Resources Mobile Web FAQ has been updated… (I'll announce “updates to the FAQ”, when major or considerable changes are done). ceo
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