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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: December 2008
Worldwide and US mobile subscriber penetration (Dec 2008)
Worldwide Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 42% penetration in 2008 and 53% penetration by 2014 worldwide. US Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 88% penetration in 2008 and 104% penetration by 2014 in the United States. The above numbers for the US matches … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Tagged 2008, Frost & Sullivan, mobile, penetration, subscriber, US, Worldwide
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International Long Distance Calls Going Mobile
Not only landlines are being replaced by mobile phones, but according to the Annual TeleGeography study of the international voice market, international long-distance calling is also moving to mobile handsets: ceo
On Texting Usage in the USA (PEW Internet Project)
A recent report by the PEW Internet Project titled Networked Workers reveals a couple of interesting numbers on texting usage in the USA: General Numbers on Technology Usage by “Networked Workers” 93% own a cell phone, compared with 78% of … Continue reading
Gartner: Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate, Nokia #1 Smartphone Company in Q3 2008
According to Gartner, worldwide smartphone sales reached its lowest growth rate with 11.5% increase in 3rd quarter of 2008. It also says that Nokia is the #1 smartphone manufacturer/seller: Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the … Continue reading
On the Java Community Process: Expert Groups, JSRs, Observers and legal-related thoughts
Antonio Goncalves writes that Everybody should be able to easily observe JSRs. Yes, I agree. But it really is more than just being able to observe. I was an Observer for the MSA 1.0 Expert Group (EG) and other EGs; … Continue reading
Posted in JavaCommunity
Tagged 2008, change, eg, expert groups, ip, Java Community Process, JCP, jsr, legal, observer
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Carnival of the Mobilists #154
It has been one year since the last time that I hosted the Carnival of the Mobilists. And it is with great pleasure that I bring you the Carnival of the Mobilists #154, the last one for 2008. This week … Continue reading
Goodbye 2008 and welcome 2009 and some predictions on mobility
2008 was a very interesting year for me, with both failures and successes and tons of lessons learned. But life is good. 2009 will be a very interesting year for mobility and handsets and applications. An example of this was … Continue reading
Browser swallows OS
I like the image above (source: DesktopLinux.com). While not real (today), think about it. The machine boots up to a totally web-based experience. The application-bar at the bottom of the screen consists of widgets and icons (links) to web-based applications. … Continue reading
The sky is falling (over Alberta, Canada)
The search for the meteor impact site is on in Alberta, Canada. Dec 5 2008: Well, since Hulu TV removed the original video of the meteor, I had to replace it with a different meteor video below. But here is … Continue reading
