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 from 0.5% today…
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 Field Communication (JSR…
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. The organizers, Roger…
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 session (same week…
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 have been years…
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 transfer takes the…
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: Information Ubiquity Application…
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 must be very…
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
Wow, two huge acquisitions, same day: Sun aqcuires MySQL Oracle aquires BEA ceo
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