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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: April 2008
The Real Threat to Google (is in your pocket)
An interesting BusinessWeek article, covers the next holly grail in marketing. Yeap you guest it; those 2 or so inches of screen real estate in your pocket; the cell phone or mobile handset. And more importantly, the application of the … Continue reading
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Better development tools for growing projects
As our project needs grow, it was clear that it was time for eZee to invest some dough into better, integrated tools for issue tracking, change management, and knowledge sharing. For this we acquired Atlassian’s Jira, FishEye (w/ Subversion which … Continue reading
Posted in Development
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Developing Mobile Widgets: a comprehensible tutorial
Thomas Landspurg (CTO of Webwag) wrote in his blog about a tutorial they published on developing mobile widgets for the Webwag platform using XML and JavaScript: The tutorial describes how to create a translator widget, using a web service and … Continue reading
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Java fully open-sourced ‘by end of year’
Sun continues its move towards a fully open-sourced Java: Sun is to open-source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions. See the rest of articles: Java … Continue reading
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Mobile Advocacy Do’s and Don’ts
Calder Strategies published a great summary of Do’s and Don’ts for Mobile (Marketing)… It really is a great summary, which some great points, such as: The medium is young, it is risky when poorly done, and it’ll take time to … Continue reading
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Great Rush Concert – Snakes and Arrows
Last night, Rush played at the University of Texas (Austin). And they played awesome, as strong as the last time they visited, ~14 years ago; from 2112, to Tom Sawyer, and their new album… (but no Roll the Bones!) Glad … Continue reading
On Startups, the economy, VCs, and calculated risks — Will VCs invest in your company?
Investors don’t invest based on the state of the economy. Investors invest in people, technologies, potential opportunities. It is all about taking calculated risks… Assuming that you have something of interest and with great potential, if an investor is hesitant … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship
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Andreas Weigend on the Consumer Data Revolution
Andreas S. Weigend (People & Data) is one of those visionary (yet practical) individuals, like Tomi T. Ahonen (Communities Dominate Brands), who I follow, and love how they think… as their way of thinking is very inline with my way … Continue reading
Posted in People-centric Computing
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Linux on Mobile Devices
According to ABI Research, by the year 2013 around 20% of all mid- and/or high-end mobile devices will be Linux-based handsets… (Since such projections are typically *wrong*, let’s cut the above number by half for that year.) ceo
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Dial “jobs” to 23933
Dial jobs to 23933 (2eZee) to learn about current job openings at eZee inc. It is simple and fast. (Other rates may apply; LOL) ceo
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Bray on “Why is Ruby on Rails so darn slow?”
Tim Bray said at his Ruby Conference keynote speech last week: Rails is “a big deal, a hot deal”, : : “Let’s face the facts: Ruby is too slow,” Bray told delegates. He says Ruby 1.8.6 – which dominates the … Continue reading
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Using Static Analysis For Software Defect Detection
A very good presentation Using Static Analysis For Software Defect Detection; William Pugh, Google TechTalks, July 6, 2006: William Pugh — I’ll talk about some of my experience in using and expanding static analysis tools for defect detection. The FindBugs … Continue reading
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Nokia introduces 6212 Classic with NFC support
Good, another phone with NFC; Nokia has introduced its 6212 Classic phone, but now with NFC support; see the press release. See the Nokia 6212 specs (GSM Arena). More related news: The Nokia 6212 Classic with NFC (3G Week) Nokia’s … Continue reading
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Multi-modal and iPhone presentation slides from last MobileMonday Austin
A number of people have been asking for Michael’s slides from last MoMo Austin event titled Multi-modal and iPhone; how to adapt web applications in the age of the iPhone (Michael Yuan). Enjoy… ceo
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60% of Americans feel uneasy about Web site personalization
I stumbled upon an interesting article that while I’m not surprised by its findings, it is relevant to recent discussions on personalization and critical mass with respect to advanced mobile software. According to a survey by Harris Interactive, nearly 60% … Continue reading
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