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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: July 2007
CEnriqueOrtiz Lingr discusson room
Update 8/6: Experiment has been completed. Chat room has been closed… Update 8/1: Russ has closed his Lingr chat room. I am going to continue experimenting with Lingr, as in my case I see it as a public interaction channel … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #84
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #84 is at Mobile Messaging 2.0, and written by Debi Jones (of MobileJones.com) … Topics this week include SMS, MoSoSo, the iPhone, Mobile Web, Nokia handsets, Carriers/Operators, Mobile Industry, and International Travel; a great … Continue reading
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Action Engine lands $20 million in VC funding
With this new $20M, it totals $65 million in VC funding since it was founded in 2000. Action Engine is one of the promoters of On-Device Portals (ODP). ODP is a fancy name for an end-to-end mobile application (client on … Continue reading
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Dogs, skateboards and iPhones
After watching the iPhone TV commercial for the millionth time, I decided to try to find the YouTube video of the dog riding the skateboard… While I am not sure that I found the exact same video as on the … Continue reading
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Java ME Milestone: Motorola taking first step towards Apache License
Brian Deuser, Software Test Architect at Motorola Mobile Devices Software announced the following on the KVM Interest list: “In order to promote a unified mobile Java platform, Motorola is proud to release Gatling version 1.0.03 and the MIDP 2.1 TCK … Continue reading
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CTIA on the 700MHz Spectrum Auction (and Google)
CTIA position on the 700MHz Spectrum Auction (and directly against Google): “CTIA-The Wireless Association® strongly supports the open and fair auction of licenses for spectrum in the 700 MHz band with flexible service rules that will allow the wireless industry … Continue reading
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A Conversation with Michael Stonebraker and Margo Seltzer
Michael Stonebraker is a DB guru — over 30 years of experience with database technologies. He started with Ingres (and the open source PostgreSQL) developed at UC Berkeley, he taught at UC Berkeley, is currently an adjunct professor of computer … Continue reading
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Dominique on “Thin and dumb, or fat and smart?”
See Dominique’s Thin and dumb, or fat and smart? Good to see the folks at the W3C Mobile Web Initiative Team understand the future, the importance of the convergence between browser-based and local clients, which is something I have been … Continue reading
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Humanizing the User Interface – the power of the command line, natural language and ZUIs
The best user interface is the one that combines visual (GUI) and natural language. And the closest, cheapest thing to natural language is the command line interface (CLI); the ideal natural language medium is voice. This ideal user interface also … Continue reading
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Moblin.org – an open source Mobile & Internet Linux Project
Moblin.org is an interesting open source project related to Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). “… an umbrella, open source project focused on the development of Linux for Intel-based devices. To this purpose, moblin.org will host various projects that will provide … Continue reading
Russ on “When is Motorola going to get it together?”
On his blog Russ Beattie writes When is Motorola going to get it together?. It is a good write up that I hope the folks at Motorola read. From my perspective, we all know that Motorola is right now going … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #83
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (#83) is at Golden Swamp – great submissions from the blogosphere. Check it out! Thanks to Judy for including my entry The next big thing is Touch. ceo
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Jason on “Why i-mode is Bad For The Mobile Internet”
Related to operators dumping i-mode, Jason writes Why i-mode is Bad For The Mobile Internet with a good summary on some of the reasons why i-mode fails to succeed outside Japan today… Another reason is that I believe the success … Continue reading
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Galaxy Zoo – take part in a census of one million galaxies
What a cool project… Galaxy Zoo leverages the human collective intelligence to help classify thousands of images taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: “Astronomers are inviting members of the public to help them make major new discoveries by taking … Continue reading
