About
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.
I can be reached via email at "enrique.ortiz at gmail dot com" or via SMS/text message by scanning the QRCode below:
You need a QR reader installed for scanning; below are some readers:
Monthly Archives: September 2007
On iterations, mobile, texting, web, and local applications (oh, and voice)
(Update: this piece omitted voice as a medium, and it has been updated to reflect such.) A good post by Tom Hume on Iterations, mobile, and Java, on the debate of web vs. local, a debate that in my opinion … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
5 Comments
Jonathan Knudsen on “Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone”
Jonathan sent me an email that he will be teaching a tutorial on Java ME programming at OOPSLA in October. The details from his email follow: Title: Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone Time & Date: Monday, October … Continue reading
Posted in JavaME-J2ME
Leave a comment
Mobile 2.0 Event – A Day Exploring the Future of Mobile
A reminder that Mobile 2.0 event is coming soon, and that the early bird special at $145 is coming to and end, available until the end of September. After that the regular price is $185. The event is almost sold-out. … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
Mobile Web and JSF (and transformation/adaptation)
Following the recent discussions on The iPhone, One Web, Content Transformation, Multi-touch, and fingers and Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community, here (at eZee) we are going through the pains related to this topic of … Continue reading
Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community
Andrea Trasatti recently wrote: “Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community…” ..but I’m urged to clarify that content transcoding (targeting right markup language), or transformation/adaption (reorganizing content and selecting right assets such as images depending on … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
Tips from Barbara Ballard on design and development of location services
Little Springs Design is an expert in Mobile User Experience. Barbara Steven recently wrote a good piece titled location is not GPS, where she covers design and development of location services. Quoting from her essay: So, to guide our design … Continue reading
Posted in LocationBased
3 Comments
Collective Intelligence Applied to the Patent Process
A very interesting application of the Web collective intelligence applied to the patent process. Peer-to-Patent is a pilot program that opens the patent examination process to public participation: “Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of … Continue reading
Posted in General
2 Comments
The iPhone, One Web, Content Transformation, Multi-touch, and fingers
The iPhone has proven that touch-screen with multi-touch works great on mobile. The iPhone has also proven that true One Web or “the web as-is” (i.e. without transformation) is possible — effectively showing how dotMobi could become irrelevant. Maybe. To … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
12 Comments
TXT is popular, but can’t help the stupid (or the sloppy)
Following my previous post on 8 BILLION texts sent every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day, it is obvious that text messaging is very popular, but it can’t help the stupid or the sloppy… See … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
Rudy De Waele: The Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem
My friend Rudy De Waele sent me an email about his recent presentation that he did last week in London at the Mobile Web 2.0 Conference. Rudy’s presentation, Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem (at Slideshare), is a great summary of Mobile … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
Guy on “The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers”; also, a tidbit on this topic
Guy Kawasaki writes The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers, a good fun read (especially if you have to deal with attorneys)… On this topic I will add the following though: –> Keep lawyers and your business separate… One of … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship
1 Comment
8 BILLION texts sent every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day.
Tomi T Ahonen writes SMS text messaging worth 100 B dollars in 2007, where he covers clear and impressive numbers that show that the use of SMS is not slowing down, and won’t slow down at time soon. 8 BILLION … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
4 Comments
Tip of the day: Kayak.com
Today I finished my arrangements for my trip to San Francisco for the Mobile 2 event where I will be speaking. Finding the best airfare deal is always a pain in the neck. My buddy Gary pointed me to kayak.com … Continue reading
Carnival of the Mobilists #92
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Abhishek Tiwari’s weblog, who is hosting the Carnival for the first time, and who has done a great job with it. A great set of entries this week from the blogosphere, including … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival Of The Mobilists
Leave a comment
Phil Solis on new devices at the Intel Developer Forum
Phil Solis, of ABI research, writes Get Ready for a Wave of Mobile Internet Devices, where he briefly covers the kind of new Intel-based devices that he saw at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). MIDs (mobile Internet devices) have been … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
