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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: May 2008
Beautiful, Perfect Launch of STS-124/Discovery
A beautiful and perfect Space Shuttle launch, in support of the International Space Station (ISS); STS-124/Discovery carrying Japan’s Kibo laboratory to the Station: After STS-124, there are 9 more missions to go to complete the ISS. See NASA’s Space Shuttle … Continue reading
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Going Big (Jason Calacanis)
Great set of slides by Jason Calacanis — the three most important factors in predicting the next big thing. | View | Upload your own
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Attacking NFC Mobile Phones (Collin Mulliner)
NFC is a technology that not only is being deployed today, but that will be found on mostly every mobile phone in the future. And with this comes security and hacking concerns. I just found an interesting presentation by Collin … Continue reading
100 Explosions on the Moon
If you see a flashing light while looking at the moon, it might not be an optical illusion but an meteoroid impact; from 100 Explosions on the Moon (NASA): Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have … Continue reading
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Patents as Barrier to Entry
Josh Kopelman (Redeye VC blog and managing Director of First Round Capital) wrote a piece titled Depending on pending… where he argues about the importance of patents w.r.t. barriers to entry vs. focusing on going to market first: Most people … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship
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The Phoenix has Landed
The Phoenix Mars Lander has landed. Perfect landing. Congrats to the Phoenix Lander team… Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at … Continue reading
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Mobile Internet Programming: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Applications
Below is a diagram that will appear on a piece that I am writing. The diagram presents (and compares) the attributes for the different methods for mobile software application programming (non-messaging): Click to Enlarge — Mobile Internet Programming: Browser, Lightweight, … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
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Slow blogging, but lots of progress at eZee inc…
I haven’t blogged for a whole week… My team and I have been extremely busy, heads-down, with no time to blog. I’ve lots good stuff to blog about, thoughts and technical stuff, and my apologies for my slow blogging, but … Continue reading
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Ten Mistakes in Mobile Web Marketing (dotMobi)
dotMobi continues providing great services to the mobility development community, and has published Ten Mistakes in Mobile Web Marketing. It is a good compilation of things to avoid and related suggestions and best practices: The mobile web is taking off, … Continue reading
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Google lays out mobile future
From Google lays out mobile future (Silicon.com): Google Mobile group product manager, Hugo Barra, added a great user interface – like Apple’s iPhone – and a flat data plan are key in making mobile internet appeal to consumers. A great … Continue reading
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Zillow.com
If you own a home, or are looking to buy one, check out Zillow.com, a very cool website/tool. You can look at homes, or if selling, check your home, and all the information, photos and charts based on public records, … Continue reading
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Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) 2
Interesting, I just read via Olle’s blog JavaWire, about MSA version 2 (JSR 249)… I haven’t been able to keep up with JSR 249 for a while; so I decided to take a look at it today. …wow, lots of … Continue reading
Posted in JavaME-J2ME
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dotMobi buys Mowser
Mowser lives; pretty awesome. Just read that dotMobi has acquired Mowser, and that Mike and Russ will join dotMobi… From dotMobi Loves Mowser (dotMobi): At long last we can announce some great news! dotMobi is acquiring the well-known Mowser service … Continue reading
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Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) for Java ME
Sun has released (at J1) its Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) for Java ME, the library, demos and example code, as part of the a new project LWUIT on Java.net: LWUIT is a UI library that is bundled together with applications … Continue reading
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Novarra executive Talks about Transcoding
I had missed this; thanks to Alex Kerr for point this out: Talking Transcoding (Mobile Marketing Magazine) where Novarra’s President and COO, Jayanthi Rangarajan, was interviewed. Also make sure to scroll-down and go over the comments. My response to this: … Continue reading
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