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 for when I…
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 read. Thanks to…
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 the handset, and…
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 TV commercial, I…
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 003 under the…
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 to continue its…
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 science at MIT,…
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 predicating for a…
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 applies to mobile.…
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 key elements of…
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