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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: November 2009
Carnival of the Mobilists #202 at the Mobile Strategy blog
In its 202th edition, the Carnival of the Mobilists continue strong. This week’s Carnival is hosted at the Mobile Strategy weblog where you will find a number of interesting blog entries from MOpocket, WIP Jam, MSearchGroovem, Mobile Manifesto and About … Continue reading
Will RIM go the Android Way?
Will RIM adopt Android? A very interesting thought indeed. But why or not would RIM do such a thing? Some thoughts below: Why this would be unlikely? “Not built here” mentality — this is probably the biggest hurdle for them. … Continue reading
MobileMonday Austin Event – December 7 ’09 – Technology Incubators, Funding Sources and Demos
Mark your calendars! The next MobileMonday Austin event is scheduled for December 7, 2009, 5:30-8pm. For this event we will have a number of Central Texas Technology Incubators come in and talk about what and how they help local mobile … Continue reading
OMTP BONDI 1.1 Candidate Release — Open to public for review/feedback
BONDI 1.1 is now in Candidate Release and it is open to public for feedback. Note that this phase will close on the 2nd of December so you’ll need to get your comments in before then. See OMTP and BONDI … Continue reading
Near-Field (Proximity) Communication in late 2009
It almost is the end of 2009. And where does near-field proximity communication-based applications stand? From mobile marketing, to customer loyalty, payments and authentication, to information exchange, transportation and health-care. Well, it still stands very far from its full potential. … Continue reading
Will the iPhone trigger the Mobile RFID/NFC revolution?
Will history repeat itself? There was/is the 12 keys keypad cellphone. And few care about Touch. Then came the iPhone. Now everyone loves Touch. There was the operator Deck. Everyone hated the Deck. Then came Apple. And created the App … Continue reading
On-bill App Store Purchases – finally, an operator leveraging their own infrastructure in new ways, on the new era of app stores
Operators have so much infrastructure already in place and it has taken them so many years to take advantage of it in news ways — to leverage such infrastructure for their own benefit and the benefit of the ecosystem, by … Continue reading
