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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: June 2008
Openwave Sells Mobile-Phone Unit To Purple Labs For $32 Million In Cash
Wow… OPWV is selling it’s mobile browser and messaging business… Do you remember when OPWV was all the rave? Do you remember Phone.com and the Phone.com conference? Man, those were cool days. The early days, (late 1990s and early 2000s) … Continue reading
Fewer students pursue computer-related degrees
One of our roles as computer scientists, technologists and enthusiasts, is to help educate the next generation of computer scientists, technologists and enthusiasts. Reading today that Fewer students pursue computer-related degrees really concerns me — it is a no brainer … Continue reading
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An Introduction to Near-Field Communication and the Contactless Communication API
See my latest article — an introduction to the NFC API for Java… Near-field Communication (NFC) is characterized as a very short-range radio communication technology with a lot of potential, especially when applied to mobile handsets. Imagine yourself using your … Continue reading
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Virgin Mobile to buy Helio for $39M
Another MVNO “bites the dust”; not exactly for Helio as it is being rescued by Virgin Mobile. At $39M it is a bargain for Virgin Mobile, compared to all the cash SK Telecom et al. have put into it… It … Continue reading
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Towards free location on all devices (with OpenCellId)
Nice interview of Thomas Landspurg, founder of 8Motions, and a friend from France, on the importance and use of Cell-IDs for location-based mobile applications. Thomas is the creator of the OpenCellId project: This project is an open source project, aiming … Continue reading
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MobileMonday Austin – Oracle on mobile applications and databases (July 14th)
A very interesting topic, come see Nikunj Mehta, tech lead for Oracle’s AtomDB project, talk about an emergent approach to mobile applications and browser-embedded databases, involving the use of the Atom publishing protocol for application programming as well as data … Continue reading
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Mobile & Embedded Community
I’ve joined (invited to join) the governance body (Board of Directors) of the Mobile & Embedded Community. As a board member, some of my responsibilities will include: Ensure all contributions represent the values of the majority of the community and … Continue reading
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On my visit to the Tecnológico of Monterrey, Santa Fe
Before the new week begins, I’ll write down my thoughts and experiences on my visit to Santa Fe, Mexico City. I spent last week at the Tecnológico of Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe, teaching 11 professors of Engineering on the topic … Continue reading
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Iker Casillas saves the game
Casillas! What a great photo shot/moment, isn’t it — click to enlarge Iker Casillas blocks Daniele De Rossi penalty kick for the win — Spain 0 – Italy 0; Spain beats Italy on the shoot out…
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Traveling this week – prob no blogging
I’m traveling this whole week thus blogging will be light, or no blogging at all. ceo
Successful STS-124 Space Shuttle mission
What a great photo, isn’t it? Mission Specialist Karen Nyberg looking out the space station window… If I had $20MM to spare, I would be right up there, as a space tourist. Discovery and her crew landed safely earlier today… … Continue reading
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Mobile 2.0 Europe, What is Mobile 2.0? (and a free ticket for you)
Mobile 2.0 Europe is scheduled for July 4, 2008 in Barcelona. And it is going to be an awesome mobility event, by mobile technologists/practitioners for mobile technologists/practitioners; that is why I like so much the Mobile 2.0 events; I can’t … Continue reading
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interview with C. Enrique Ortiz
Last week I was interviewed by Barbara; check it out… ceo P.S. Thanks Barbara!
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Carnival of the Mobilists is Here
I haven’t submitted to the Carnival in a long time… will get to that hopefully soon. But this week’s Carnival of the Mobilist is at the WAP Review. Check it out. ceo
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When We Left Earth
The Discovery Channel HD is showing a very cool series (Sundays 9 EST) called When We Left Earth – The NASA Missions; Part 1 ran today. Great images/video clips and historical information… The series is available on DVD and Blue … Continue reading
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