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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: July 2008
A true, global Bluetooth Big Brother case
The B for Bluetooth can easily stand for “Big Brother”… Via Guardian (UK), a report on a study being done without people’s knowledge that uses Bluetooth to keep track of people’s aggregate behavior, see Bluetooth is watching: secret study gives … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #134 at Mopocket
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #134 is at Justin Oberman’s weblog Mopocket. This week edition comes with essays by newcomers Shaun Zelbers and Ari Zoldan, as well as regulars including as Martin Sauter, Steven Hoober, Ajit Joakar, Andreas Constantinou, … Continue reading
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Data Messenger and Secure Mobile Forms (Media Sourcery)
There is a new application for anyone who must store and/or transmit sensitive data to/from their cellphones. Good examples are hospitals or hospice businesses (HIPAA), lawyers on the field (client data), and as recently learned, even the government users of … Continue reading
About Carlos (Rafael) Ortiz Longo
A little bit about my middle (older) brother — see Carlos (Rafael) Ortiz Longo (Wikipedia). …he is the brain in the family (yes, the manned space program is in our blood) ceo P.S. It is very cool to see all … Continue reading
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W3C — New Work Started on Mobile Web Application Guidelines
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today has published its best practices and standards for open mobile Web and Web application development. The goal is to help mobile content developers deal with the challenges of designing Web content for a … Continue reading
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The Web Science
I was quite fascinated by a recent article in the Communications of the ACM written by Web luminaries James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Daniel Weitzner titled Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web (Communications … Continue reading
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SMS 5 years outlook: SMS is King
A quick note of another study, this time by ABI Research, that mobile messaging (SMS) is and will continue to be the top use, after voice, for cellphones — see SMS to Garner 83% of All Mobile Messaging Revenues through … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #133 at VisionMobile
The Carnival of the Mobilists #133 is at VisionMobile (Andreas Constantinou’s weblog). VisionMobile is one of the top mobility blogs in the global blogosphere; a must read. This week’s edition of the Carnival comes with mobile technology essays by Justin … Continue reading
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AtomDB – data management system for (mobile) web applications
At our last MobileMonday Austin event we had the pleasure of having as guest speaker Nikunj Mehta, team leader of the Atom DB project at Oracle. It really was a great technical presentation by Nikunj, where he discussed mobile web … Continue reading
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Apple Store, part 2 — 25 Million Apps Downloaded in 11 days
Not bad… From Apple Says 25 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded (CNN): Apple Inc. (AAPL) said iPhone owners has downloaded 25 million copies of software programs for the phone in about 11 days, which it sees as a significant benefit for … Continue reading
The End of Software Patents?
This is big. This very much could mean the end of software patents… See the article The Death of Google’s Patents (Patent Law Blog). From the Patent Law Blog article: If the PTO’s test is followed, the crucial question for … Continue reading
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Fragility of Services on the Web
A lot of noise recently, triggered by the recent S3 Outage, on the fragility of Web Services… And guess what? This is (and will continue to be) a recurring and expected theme on the highly interdependent world of Mashups and … Continue reading
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A very good day for physical to digital worlds connection companies. U.S. Patent Office Rejects All Ninety Five NeoMedia Patent Claims
Back in March of 2006 I wrote about Neomedia’s patent claims related to computer systems that rely on scanned inputs — they claimed that they owned the IP for all technologies and computer systems that perform processing based on scanning … Continue reading
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Juniper Research: NFC Mobile Payments to Reach US$75 Billion by 2013
Another report that claims big numbers; this time by Juniper Research — see NFC Mobile Payments to Reach US$75 Billion by 2013 (via Payment News). 2013, or five years from today, seems about right for the NFC sweet spot (or … Continue reading
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