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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: January 2008
Report – Contactless Payments and NFC in the United States: Beyond Science Fiction
From a New Report from Aite Group titled Contactless Payments and NFC in the United States: Beyond Science Fiction: In the absence of increased incentives by card networks, Aite Group estimates that merchant penetration of contactless payment will only increase … Continue reading
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MobileMonday Austin, February 2008 – Mobility and Physical World Connections, Information Ubiquity and Near Field Communication
The MobileMonday Austin 2008 calendar for events is coming out nicely. Make sure you visit the MobileMonday Austin website at http://mobilemondayaustin.org/ Below is the information about the first session. February Topic: Mobility and Physical World Connections, Information Ubiquity and Near … Continue reading
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Recap of Mobile and Embedded Developer Days event
Last week I spent a day at the first Java Mobile and Embedded Developer days conference. It was a great event, very technical in nature, organized by developers for developers. Sun’s Grand Auditorium is a beautiful building, a perfect setup. … Continue reading
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MobileMonday Austin planning
With the new year, I am putting together the schedule for MobileMonday Austin. If you are local to Austin (or not for that matter), and you would like to present, and/or sponsor, please let me know ASAP. About March special … Continue reading
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Today, Call for Action: Meeting on Developer Issues @ Santa Clara
Sean Sheedy sent me an email about an important meeting that is going to be taking place today in Santa Clara. If you are there, you should attend, and express your opinion, feedback, concerns… ceo The meeting is introductory. There … Continue reading
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NFC and contactless payments around the world
The day after I gave my presentation on NFC and Information Ubiquity, I found a good summary of NFC today around the world (ZD Net), that covers NFC deployments in Australia, Asia, and Europe. Most often that sort of data … Continue reading
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NFC IN MOBILE COMMERCE and Information Ubiquity – Use Cases, Technologies, APIs (MEDD)
The Presentation slides are complete, the bags are packed, and I am ready to go to MEDD. Also see Come join us at BarCampME, January 23rd, Santa Clara, CA. The slides look very good (not that I’m biased) and cover: … Continue reading
Jaiku:blast from the past
I remember James posting on Jaiku some time ago “Jaiku, blast from the past”… referring to how long it takes Jaiku to aggregate stuff; some times displaying items that are 2 days old already; amazingly slow, and getting worst. This … Continue reading
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Mobile and Embedded opposites
Microsoft cancels its annual conference for mobile and embedded developers… …and Sun will have its first Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Conference. And don’t forget about the BarCampME. ceo
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One day, two huge acquisitions…
Wow, two huge acquisitions, same day: Sun aqcuires MySQL Oracle aquires BEA ceo
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Jobs on good products, bad products, people, Kindle, and why it is going to fail
Steve Jobs comments on Amazon’s Kindle (from NY Times The Passion of Steve Jobs): “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in … Continue reading
Come join us at BarCampME, January 23rd, Santa Clara, CA
Come join us! It should be fun… BarCampME is scheduled for 8:30 PM Wednesday January 23rd until 8:30 AM Wednesday January 24th, during the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days (MEDD) conference! BarCampME bridges the two days of the conference. You … Continue reading
Russell Buckley on The Frustrations of Java ME
This has become a yearly tradition, see The Frustrations of Java ME… Russell wrote: According to a Greg Ballard of mobile games maker, Glu, in a recent interview in Mobile Entertainment, their Transformers game needed no less than 25,000 SKUs … Continue reading
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Wired Magazine on the story of the iPhone
Below are a couple of citations from the article The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry (Wired Magazine); a very good article indeed: “For decades, wireless carriers have treated manufacturers like serfs, using access to their … Continue reading
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Use of URLs, QR Codes, OCT, Bookmarks Internet, and other in mobile Japan
A small but interesting survey of 300 mobile phone users in Japan (via What Japan Thinks) has shown the results below, but could this be representative of the expected behavior on other parts of the world? Votes Percentage From … Continue reading
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