Category Archives: Mobility

Below is my presentation at Design4Mobile. Mobility, Context, Interactions and Data View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: data ortiz) The Design4Mobile mini-conference has been packed with great presentations and people; researchers, designers and implementers from around the world, … Continue reading →

Dennis Bournique of WapReview wrote a nice piece on Mobile Web applications, where he ponders on the topic after attending both Mobile Web Megatrends and the CTIA Mobile Jam Session. I agree with most of Dennis’ points. But in the … Continue reading →

A number of companies have been applying their encryption technology to SMS. One of these companies is Masabi; see Encrypted SMS As a Backup for Mobile Data Applications (Cellular-news). Is SMS encryption a must have? Do you think users care? … Continue reading →

The Mobile 2.0 2008 conference has been announced for November 3rd 2008 and the list of confirmed speakers looks great. What makes this event special for me is that it has been more in touch with reality, due to the … Continue reading →

EWeek reports that the HTC Dream, the first Android phone, is expected to be launched in New York on Sept. 23 on the T-Mobile network. The article also covers the importance for Google to get it right on the first … Continue reading →

Photos for the MobileWidget Camp Austin event have been uploaded to Flickr and tagged MobileWidgetCampAustin. If you have any photos of your own, please use the aforementioned tag, and thanks to all who have contributed photos so far: #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; … Continue reading →

The first ever MobileWidget Camp, the MobileWidget Camp Austin was a success. Thanks to all the attendees, speakers and sponsors! I will be posting photos shortly, same with all the results posted notes. Anyone with photos, please post to Flickr. … Continue reading →

Below are Rudy De Waele (m-trends.org) MobileMonday Amsterdam presentation on “15 Tips To Create Value For Mobile”… as always, great content: 15 Tips to create value for mobile @ Mobilemonday Amsterdam View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: mobilemonday … Continue reading →

The MobileWidget Camp Austin event schedule has been posted… Developers, bring your laptops, and go to the above event hyperlink for instructions on downloading the Yahoo! and Nokia Widget SDKs, which will be use during the coding labs. See you … Continue reading →

I recently wrote an article on using JSON on mobile Java applications. From the article: Choosing the right data interchange format is an important design decision when building any network-aware software. This is especially true when designing mobile and embedded … Continue reading →

Levi Shapiro wrote a neat article on Fierce MobileContent titled Austin round-up: The new hotbed for mobile; check it out. And I agree w/ Levi… While Austin is not Silicon Valley, Austin is a great place to start your company, … Continue reading →

A reminder that this weekend, Sept 7th 2008 is the MobileWidget Camp Austin event: See the tentative event schedule (it looks pretty good!). It is a free, informal, and fun event, with food and drinks throughout the day, great topics … Continue reading →

At A fresh take on the browser (Official Google Blog), the Google team writes about Chrome, their WebKit-based web-browser: On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that … Continue reading →

As (I) expected (and predicted), Google has launched its own application store or marketplace; see Android Market: a user-driven content distribution system (Android Developers Blog). And with the Android Market solution, Google is addressing the problem of application discovery and … Continue reading →