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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: January 2009
The “WAP Gap” All Over Again – W3C, HTTPS and Transcoding
The other day Luca Passani sent me an email pointing me to a very important discussion that had been happening at the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group WG. The discussion is around Transcoding of web content and HTTPS … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Tagged Dennis Bournique, HTTPS, luca passani, Transcoding, W3C, WAP Gap
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Meet at Mobile World Congress 2009
For those attending Mobile World Congress 2009: I would love to meet my (virtual) friends, followers and people who I follow, From work perspective, if your company has or will have “end-to-end digital management” needs anywhere in the world from … Continue reading
Pollen Journal – First Pollen Alert iPhone App (Ringful)
When I started eZee inc, one of my proudest accomplishments was the great R&D/development team I had. And one of the members of that team was Michael Yuan. Enter Ringful… Since then, Michael went on and started Ringful, a mobile … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Tagged iPhone, michael yuan, mobile, Mobility, pollen journal, ringful
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Mobile Peer Awards at Mobile World Congress – we need more Austin representation (deadline is tonight)
Austinites – The “Mobile Peer Awards” is to happen at Barcelona during Mobile World Congress (MWC). There are great mobile startups in Austin. It would be great if you register your startup, even if you will not attend MWC. I … Continue reading
Posted in MobileMonday Austin
Tagged Austin, Mobile Peer Awards, Mobile World Congress, mobilemonday
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Palm’s webOS strategy flaw: ignoring current customer-base
Update: (May-2-09) Since I wrote this piece, it seems that the Palm OS folks have changed their minds, recognizing that ignoring the current customer-base was a mistake. The Palm Pre will come with a PalmOS Emulator that will “let the … Continue reading
Carnival of the Mobilists #156 at the WAP Review blog
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (#156) is at Dennis Bournique’s The WAP Review blog. This week the Carnival topics include mobile predictions for 2009, on software and services, design and user experience, mobile marketing and strategy and related events … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival Of The Mobilists
Tagged carnival of the mobilists, Dennis Bournique, mobile, wap review
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Design For Mobile Conference 2009
I just noticed that this year’s Design For Mobile conference, organized by the folks from Little Springs Design, is scheduled for April 20-22, 2009. I attended last year’s event and it was a good event with attendees and presenters from … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Tagged Conference, Design For Mobile, little springs design, mobile, Mobility
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Update – Diagram on Mobile Applications: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Apps
I’ve updated my diagram on non-messaging Mobile Applications: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Applications (click to enlarge): I will be using this diagram on an upcoming article that I’ve been cooking for a while. ceo
Upgraded to WordPress 2.7
I just updated to WordPress 2.7 (from 2.5.1). Hooray… It was about time. The new Dashboard is very nice…
Microsoft Joins the Physical World Connections and Interactions Space with Microsoft Tag
Microsoft has joined the physical world connection/interactions space with its release of their High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) called Microsoft Tag, a new 2D Barcode technology developed by Microsoft research that competes with QR Code, Datamatrix and other 2D barcode … Continue reading
Posted in PhysicalToDigitalConnections
Tagged connections, gettag, interactions, microsoft, physical, tag, world
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Carnival of the Mobilists #155
Don’t forget this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, number 155 and the first one of 2009, at Helen Keegan’s weblog Musings of a Mobile Marketer. This edition is packed with great essays, a must read! Thanks to Helen for including … Continue reading
Top 10 Mobile Phones in the U.S. (Q3 2008)
Source: THE NIELSEN COMPANY ISSUES TOP TEN U.S. LISTS FOR 2008. Motorola on the top and Nokia on the bottom – wow. And in between in that order: LG, Apple and BlackBerry. Wow again. The US does operate differently than … Continue reading
More on iPhone vs. Android App Store and the reason why the Android App Store will Win
I found the above via Mobile-Facts and it is quite funny (and probably even true!). The important concept here, even if not the best of examples, is that an open market and ecosystem is a very good thing… ceo
My New Book
On my new book, I explain how to build up great abs… (OK, ok, I am joking, but my wife had a great hard laugh) ceo
Posted in General
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Russian Professor Predicts Fall of USA by 2010
Source: Datamation/Mike Elgan. There is a Wall Street Journal article about the Russian academic Igor Panarin who predicts the U.S. will fall apart in 2010… …and his theory goes like this: “There’s a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will … Continue reading
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