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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: September 2008
Skyfire Public Beta now available
The Skyfire mobile browser is now available in public beta. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should; the browser is pretty neat, is fast, and works great. Currently, the Skyfire browser is only supported in the US on Windows … Continue reading
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Mobility, Context, Interactions and Data @ Design4Mobile
Below is my presentation at Design4Mobile. Mobility, Context, Interactions and Data View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: data ortiz) The Design4Mobile mini-conference has been packed with great presentations and people; researchers, designers and implementers from around the world, … Continue reading
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On Mobile Browser-Based Applications
Dennis Bournique of WapReview wrote a nice piece on Mobile Web applications, where he ponders on the topic after attending both Mobile Web Megatrends and the CTIA Mobile Jam Session. I agree with most of Dennis’ points. But in the … Continue reading
Encrypted SMS
A number of companies have been applying their encryption technology to SMS. One of these companies is Masabi; see Encrypted SMS As a Backup for Mobile Data Applications (Cellular-news). Is SMS encryption a must have? Do you think users care? … Continue reading
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Mobile 2.0 2008 – November 3rd
The Mobile 2.0 2008 conference has been announced for November 3rd 2008 and the list of confirmed speakers looks great. What makes this event special for me is that it has been more in touch with reality, due to the … Continue reading
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Android phone to be available last week of September ’08
EWeek reports that the HTC Dream, the first Android phone, is expected to be launched in New York on Sept. 23 on the T-Mobile network. The article also covers the importance for Google to get it right on the first … Continue reading
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MobileWidget Camp Austin Photos
Photos for the MobileWidget Camp Austin event have been uploaded to Flickr and tagged MobileWidgetCampAustin. If you have any photos of your own, please use the aforementioned tag, and thanks to all who have contributed photos so far: #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; … Continue reading
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“Geeky” screen
…while at home working this weekend coding away, took a snapshot of my 2nd computer screen. Pretty geeky I guess: 1) the movie War Games, 2) SETI @ Home, 3) Process Explorer: (Click to enlarge) ceo
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One click to effective (mobile) interactions
I argue that for mobile interactions such as (smart/2D) barcodes and NFC to really takeoff, they must be “one click away”… OK, no surprise there. But what I really mean is that cellphones should have an explicitly designed and easy … Continue reading
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The future of the USA space program is the private sector
During the 1990s when I used to work on the space program, the US lawmakers (president Reagan and Congress at that time) made the worst decision on the future of the space station: they canceled the USA-space station in favor … Continue reading
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MobileWidget Camp Austin a success, thanks to everyone!
The first ever MobileWidget Camp, the MobileWidget Camp Austin was a success. Thanks to all the attendees, speakers and sponsors! I will be posting photos shortly, same with all the results posted notes. Anyone with photos, please post to Flickr. … Continue reading
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Rudy’s 15 Tips To Create Value For Mobile
Below are Rudy De Waele (m-trends.org) MobileMonday Amsterdam presentation on “15 Tips To Create Value For Mobile”… as always, great content: 15 Tips to create value for mobile @ Mobilemonday Amsterdam View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: mobilemonday … Continue reading
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Google 10 years anniversary — Happy Birthday!
I remember 10 years ago, 1998, or maybe closer to 1999, I was working at Pervasive Software working with a great group of folks, building an embedded DB for mobile, embedded devices, and smart-cards; a cool project with great people … Continue reading
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Event Schedule for MobileWidgetCamp Austin has been posted
The MobileWidget Camp Austin event schedule has been posted… Developers, bring your laptops, and go to the above event hyperlink for instructions on downloading the Yahoo! and Nokia Widget SDKs, which will be use during the coding labs. See you … Continue reading
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Using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in Java ME for Data Interchange
I recently wrote an article on using JSON on mobile Java applications. From the article: Choosing the right data interchange format is an important design decision when building any network-aware software. This is especially true when designing mobile and embedded … Continue reading
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