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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: June 2009
Feature vs. Smart-phone
Feature vs. the Smart-phone. There is no straight answer; the lines are blurring too fast. At the end, your definition will be different from mine. Nevertheless, this is how I’m defining it (to be included in an upcoming article): Both … Continue reading
Friday Poll: Browsing the Internet, the Web or the Mobile Web
When browsing on your mobile, do you call it browsing “the Internet”, “the Web” or browsing “the Mobile Web”? After an interesting discussion at ForumOxford on one vs. many webs, I’m curious (keeping in mind that the majority of the … Continue reading
SPRXmobile launches Layar mobile Augmented Reality browser
By now you probably have already seen the video on Layar augmented reality (AR) browser, embedded below: Layar is a location-based, context-aware product by SPRXmobile, a group of very smart folks in Amsterdam that I have been following for a … Continue reading
Posted in AugmentedReality
Tagged ar, augmented reality, layar, Raimo van der Klein, sprxmobile, zcapes
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Call for Submissions – VentureBeat Announces the “It’s the application, stupid!” Competition For Outstanding Mobile Apps
VentureBeat is looking to recognize Mobile innovation at the second annual MobileBeat Top Startup Competition. Last year the awards went to firms such as AdMob and Loopt. This year the competition shifts to mobile applications and services, with 50 finalists … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Tagged 2009, applications, Apps, competition, mobile, mobilebeat, venturebeat
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Radio Spectrum Allocations
Below is a nice illustration on Radio Spectrum Allocations (Yankee Group): …and those with the spectrum, the spectrum-rich players, are in the driver’s seat for Mobile Broadband economics. Radio spectrum is a scarce resource that is critical for mobile communications. … Continue reading
On Startups – Internal vs. External Pressures
Internal vs. external pressures impact the (potential for) success of your startup in different ways. I’ll argue that internal pressures are the worst… how do I know? I’ve learned this the *hard way*. But remember that what doesn’t kill you … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship
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What is new in MIDP 3.0 – a quick summary
As some of you may already know, MIDP 3.0 is going public. While smartphones have taken their own route with respect to the runtime environment, I expect feature phones to adopt MIDP 3.0; to be seen is the adoption by … Continue reading
