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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: October 2007
Austin Is The Top Blogging City (in the U.S.)
According to a Scarborough Research report, Austin, TX (the city where I live) is the top blogging city (in the U.S.): Austin, TX, Portland, OR, San Francisco and Seattle are the top markets for people who read or contributed to … Continue reading
Posted in Austin
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Google: The OpenSocial API
Update (Nov 1st): MySpace joins Google’s OpenSocial. More updates: Adding more reference links at the bottom of this entry Google has announced its open social API. Very interesting. This can be big and a leap forward, converging into one service … Continue reading
Posted in SocialSoftware
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McNeil Family Support – Mobile Diva
The blogosphere is a very large virtual space. But in reality, where and when it matters, it is a small community of friends and family. This is why I am writing this post… Darla Mack, the Mobile Diva (who in … Continue reading
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AT&T (Cingular) Network fall “back” to standard time issue
If you are using AT&T (Cingular) I hope that your application doesn’t rely on network-time for execution. You see, AT&T’s network-time is off. Thanks to AT&T I would have been a whole hour too early (thanks Michelle) late to an … Continue reading
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Donate to Southern California Fire Relief via SMS – Text 2HELP
The southern California fire has touched many lives. This terrible event has even touched the life of Debi Jones (a.k.a. Mobile Jones), a dear friend and fellow Mobilist, who I contacted today and told me the news. Hang in there … Continue reading
Learn a new language with your cell phone
It is good to see one’s product hit the market. OK, it is not my product, but I built it. Before I started eZee, I provided mobile expertise/services to others (this helped pay the bills and bootstrap in the meantime). … Continue reading
Sun to say adiós to mobile-specific Java
Some updates; below are responses or reactions to the c/net article from some Sun folks: Terrence Barr, evangelist at Sun, wrote his reactions to the c/net article; see Adieu Java ME? James Goslin, one of the fathers of Java, also … Continue reading
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The New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
I’m not sure that many folks know about the New Horizons probe, which is in route to the Pluto-Kuiper Belt, in the outer solar system (this is beyond the orbit of planet Neptune). The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in … Continue reading
Posted in Space
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S60 Touch-based User Interface
One of the things I’ve been wanting/waiting for in S60 is the touch capability; I am keyboard + touch screen kind of user. But that is about to change. At the Symbian Smartphone Show, Nokia announced (and showed) support for … Continue reading
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My “NFC in Mobile Commerce” Slides
I recently presented at the Texas Wireless Summit, a session called NFC in Mobile Commerce; see the slides (PDF). The summit was very good, with a great set of speakers. BTW, I didn’t win the award for which I was … Continue reading
Webwag annouces a seed funding with a leading mobile operator
I want to congratulate my friend Thomas Landspurg and his team at Webwag, who secured seed funding with the investment fund of the leading mobile operator SFR and the venture capital firm DigiTalents Capital. That is so awesome. See the … Continue reading
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Got nominated for the Tech Innovation Awards (Austin)
So I got nominated for another award, the Tech Innovation Awards. Awesome. Thanks. If you get a minute, check the above link, and perhaps vote for my company for this award… you can read all 4 pages of the QA … Continue reading
Posted in eZee
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Mobile Portals
From Mike Rowehl’s blog: “(A list or directory of Mobile Portals) is something that was mentioned at Mobile 2.0 a few times as well: there should be a mobile portal of the same form as the early Yahoo directory when … Continue reading
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Article in WIRED: Inside The Matrix for Mobiles (and my contribution to it)
In the past I’ve written that DeviceAnywhere Rocks. A couple of days ago Rob Beschizza of Wired Magazine called me to asked me about my experiences with the tool, for a Wired article he was writing. See the article Inside … Continue reading
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Third Party Applications on the iPhone — yes!
Just saw this about Third Party Applications on the iPhone. Yes, yes… I knew it…. it was a matter of time. (Via Jyri’s Jaiku) ceo
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