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Daily Archives: January 14, 2008

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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 (or variants). 25,000!…

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 networks as leverage…

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 a scanned QR…