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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: June 2007
While many were waiting in line for their iPhone, I was…
…I was in Houston enjoying The Police live in concert. And what a great concert it was; the original band and great performance. It was a full house — sold out. The Police Tour 2007-2008. Photo taken by CEO on … Continue reading
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I've been tagged (again)
I've been tagged by Zach of SymbianInMotion… Thanks Zack! Since I've been tagged before, I am going to point back to that previous post “five things about me”. But let me add a new item (update) to that list, which … Continue reading
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The ATM is 40 years old, the demise of cash, and the future of payments
Photo source: BBC article The man who invented the cash machine The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is 40 years old. Invented by John Shepherd-Baron (OBE recipient) of Scotland, and first deployed at a branch of Barclays in Enfield, north London, … Continue reading
Posted in MobileCommerce
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Slow blogging week, but all good…
…busy, but it was a good week… Completed another drop for one of my clients, Edioma — I created for them a very cool micro-learning application that is entering BETA, that allows people to learn and translate between languages using … Continue reading
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We’re really at Mobile Web 0.5
Yes we are… but don't take my word for it… Sumit Agarwal, a product manager in Google’s mobile division, also believes so… See Mobile Web 2.0 May Be Too Ambitious, Let’s Call It Mobile 0.5 ceo
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Carnival of the Mobilists #78
The 78th weekly Carnival of the Mobilists at Symbian-Guru.com. As usual, great essays from Mobilists from all around the world… check it out. Thanks to Tim for including my entry. Let me take the opportunity of reminding everyone about the … Continue reading
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Resources for Mobile Developers — Vodafone Betavine
Some of the best resources for mobile developers are the developer resources provided by handset manufacturers and network providers. One of these developer resources is Vodafone Betavine, a website run by Vodafone's R&D group with the goal of encouraging collaboration … Continue reading
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Coolest Gadget for Father's Day — Baby monitor that turns into a Space Station monitor
Click to see video (Fox Chicago) “I put the kids down, put the baby monitor on and saw two people floating in space.” Happy Father's Day! ceo [Via The Raw Feed, Wired Maganize, and Fox Chicago]
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Jonathan Green on Jaiku Mobile
A very nice introduction video by Jonathan Green on Jaiku… Jaiku gets it and they have done an excellent job on (the more advanced) Nokia handsets, and with their platform. There are not many (successful) vendors on this mobile social … Continue reading
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Back to the Future – Computer User Interfaces – the Sun Starfire, and Microsoft Surface
Sun Microsystems surface computing, the Starfire (1994 concept): >> See Sun Microsystems' Starfire concept video (complete with drama, heh) Surface computing today, Microsoft: >> See Microsoft's Surface video (Popular Mechanics) ceo
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Webwag mobile widgets launch
Tom announces the official launch of Webwag mobile. If you have a recent Java ME phone you can experiment with their mobile widgets, which are authored using an XML for the UI, and a simple scripting language for behavior. Congrats … Continue reading
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MIDP3 Proposal to remove the MIDlet pauseApp() lifecycle method
Currently there is a proposal within the MIDP3 Expert Group, to remove, or I should say, deprecate, the MIDlet pauseApp() life-cycle method… The rationale is that 1) it is a source of confusion for both developers and implementers because it … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #77
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists # 77 is at the Symbian in Motion blog. As Zach the host puts it, “…sit back, take a sip of that coffee, make sure that your calls are forwarded – and enjoy!”… … … Continue reading
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Developing Applications for the iPhone
Photo Source: GIZMODO UK …and the winner is… the carrier, yes, the network provider… or maybe not? I was going to wait until the release of the iPhone, and wait and see, but I just can't hold this after reading … Continue reading
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Summary — MobileMonday Austin — Mobile Banking and Payments
We had another great and informative MobileMonday Austin last night – the topic was Mobile Banking and Payments. We started the night with some food, followed by industry metrics on mobile commerce, banking and payment courtesy of David Gill of … Continue reading
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