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Monthly Archives: July 2008

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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 Bath a flavour…

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, and others… Thanks…

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 BlackBerry devices —…

About Carlos (Rafael) Ortiz Longo

A little bit about my middle (older) brother — see List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors (Wikipedia). …he is the brain in the family ;-) (yes, the manned space program is in our blood) ceo

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 variety of mobile…

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 of the ACM).…

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 2013 (ABI Research).…

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 Oberman, Ian Wood,…

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 applications, synchronization and…

MobileBeat 2008 – Free Pass!

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