Is Research in Motion (RIM) new licensing strategy a move for survival or a move toward dominance? If you have worked with RIM before, you know this new strategy is a major change from how they used to do business. Why that “sudden”…
Earlier today I learned via Daily Wireless that Cingular will be deploying their 3G (UMTS) network on a number of U.S. cities by Q4 2005 and early 2006! That is just around the corner… Cool! Cingular had announced back in 2004 their plans…
A peer of mine sent me this. It's funny… but true! Top 10 replies by developers when their programs don't work: 10. 'That's weird…' 9. 'It's never done that before.' 8. 'It worked yesterday.' 7. 'You must have the wrong version.' 6. 'It…
With MSN and Yahoo! partnering on IM, two closed systems now make one very large, but still closed, system of 275 million users. The main issue with IM has been 1) the lack of interoperability between IM providers and 2) how closed these…
I've been patiently waiting for a killer handset for personal use – one with dual cameras, keyboard, touch-screen, with the latest set of JSRs, true 3G network, Wi-Fi enabled, large screen real-state, and many other killer features. And the SE P990 is such…
The JSR-271 Expert Group (EG) needs to prioritize the current list of UI features that have been proposed for MIDP 3.0. To help with this, the EG would like to leverage the MIDP developer community's expertise and input. To collect developer feedback, the…
-Updated on Oct.15.2005- We have never been so well connected and reachable, as we are today. We can reach people anytime and anywhere via voice, email and instant messaging, short messaging, and so on. Today we live in the “connected age”. The “connected”…
Google's new Personalized Home allows you to switch the traditional, simple, empty Google search home page into a more sophisticated (customizable) personalized page with things such as access to weather, stocks, GMail, and so on. If you haven't seen it yet, go to…
I tried the new Google RSS reader and I'm not impressed; I don't even like it. It drives me crazy when things that should be simple are made complex. Simple is good. I started by exporting my Bloglines feeds to OPML. I then…
The October Mobile Monday Austin event will be rescheduled to November 7 given this month's 2005 Texas Wireless Symposium on 26-28 October. Specific Mobile Monday event details will be posted here at a later date. We encourage you to register for the 2005…
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