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Monthly Archives: September 2009

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Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley 2009 – October 15-16

Mike Rowehl and Gregory Gorman are putting together the 4th Annual Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley on October 15-16, 2009: Day One: Business Day: Oct 15, 2009, 08:30am – 07:30pm Grand Hyatt San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Day Two: Developer Day: Oct 16,…

Carnival of the Mobilists #192

On App Stores (Guest Post by Kiran Mudiam)

This week guest post is by Dr. Kiran Mudiam, a long time mobile technologist and a researcher. Here is my take after reading all the letters sent to the FCC. We all know that there are positives and negatives to open and closed…

Mobile Application Stores Conference at CTIA 2009

Ajit and team have been organizing The Mobile Application Stores, Strategy and Deployment conference to happen during CTIA WIRELESS I.T. and Entertainment on October 8th 2009, in San Diego. Featured speakers for the event include: William Volk, CEO, PlayScreen Chetan Sharma, CEO, Chetan…

A word on the Skype Fiasco

Niklas Zennstrong and Janus Friis, Skype, eBay, Joost, Index Ventures, Volpi, Joltid, investors… There are many opinions floating around the Web, but this case is of interest to me because of the following: 1) Buy vs. License, 2) Due-diligence process, and 3) Core-IP…

Reminder: Next Carnival of the Mobilists – Submit your Entries!

First, let me acknowledge the last 3 Carnival of the Mobilists: Carnival #189 (Peggy Anne Salz at MSearch Groove), Carnival #190 (Caroline Lewko at WIP JAM) and Carnival # 191 (Phil Barrett at BurningTheBacon.com) for hosting great editions of the Carnival, and for…

SIM Card Overview

I put together a SIM Card Overview. It provides quick introduction to SIM Cards, standards, some industry numbers, Java Card, and the Smartcard Web Server, and links to Gemalto tools. SIM Card Overview View more documents from C. Enrique Ortiz. ceo

The Google App Market – An Analysis

I’ve written a quick analysis on the Google App Market situation… Looking forward to your feedback/opinions! You can download this article in PDF format. Download The Google App Market – An Analysis (PDF). The Google App Market – An Analysis September 6, 2009…

Startups in mobile: Join the PICNIC 2009 Mobile Bites!

My buddy Rudy De Waele (m-trends.org, dotOpen, Mobile 2.0 guru) sent me an email about the upcoming PICNIC 2009 event in Amsterdam. PICNIC is a very cool event and Rudy (dotOpen) is organizing the mobile bits of the event. So any startups that…

The Austin Entrepreneur Network and The Idea Finishing School

A quick announcement about two great resources that are available to Central Texas entrepreneurs who are starting or who had started a business (a start-up) and need some help or direction. First my friend Hall Martin who runs the Austin Entrepreneur Network (http://austinentrepreneurnetwork.org)…