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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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Category Archives: Mobility
Calling All Developers | Mobile Developer Survey
Our friends at VisionMobile are conducting a mobile developer survey, sponsored by O2 Litmus. The survey close date has been extended to March 26 and the results will be published in Q2 2010. And there are prizes! All participants will … Continue reading
If you are at MWC, stop by the ALU/Motive booth to see my products
While I am not attending Mobile World Congress this year (2010), my products are! If you want to see what I’ve been working on for the last year or so, stop by the Alcatel-Lucent booth where you will see a … Continue reading
.mobi enters a new phase?
I read via MobHappy that .mobi Gets Sold Off. .mobi has been a topic that stirred a lot of discussions, especially when it was introduced 4 or 5 years ago. Many, as I, believed (and still believe) that the new … Continue reading
Motorola Ventures Leads Investment Round in Scanbuy (and not NeoMedia)
So Motorola invested in Scanbuy. SCHAUMBURG, Ill. and NEW YORK – February 2, 2010 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), through its strategic investment arm, Motorola Ventures, today announced an investment in Scanbuy, Inc., a leader in mobile barcode solutions. Motorola … Continue reading
Which BlackBerry are you?
My good friend Michael Yuan (Ringful Health) put together a quick survey on BlackBerry to better understand popular BlackBerry versions and help them prioritize their product road-map. The survey results are public so everyone can benefit from this survey: So, … Continue reading
Mobile Trends 2020
Rudy De Waele (@mtrends) has put together a collaborative outlook of the mobile trends for the next 10 years: Update: Mobile Trends 2020 has been updated to include views from Russell Buckley, Tomi Ahonen, Yuri van Geest, Kelly Goto, Raj … Continue reading
On (Mobile) Cloud Computing – Multiple Perspectives to its Benefits, Drivers and Economics
Ajit wrote an interesting post titled Mobile Cloud Computing – the silver lining for Operators, where he explores Cloud Computing from an Operator perspective and discusses the synergies and opportunities for Carriers. He quotes an ABI Research report that states … Continue reading
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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
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
On Android, Distribution, Buzz, Pre-insalled apps and Crapware
Responding to Tomi‘s thread on ForumOxford, where he wrote: “The best phone in the world cannot take the mobile phone market, unless there is distribution.” Yes. Which is exactly why Android seems to me that it will be widely adopted. … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Apps, Buzz, Crapware, Distribution, paxmodept, Pre-insalled
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On the the rise of open mobile
While looking for information on how CTIA 2009 in San Diego went, I found an article by Richard Wong (who is a venture capitalist with Accel Partners) titled on “The rise of open mobile (and congratulations Android team)“. A good … Continue reading
On Physical and Web Interactions
I’ve updated my page on Physical and Web Interactions… …where the topic that “Everything around us can be made interactive (and thus is data) and at the center of this is the mobile handset”. See Physical and Web Interactions. ceo
