Is mobile banking finally here (I mean, in the U.S.)? It has taken financial institutions a long time to understand and feel comfortable with the technologies behind mobile banking, as well as understanding the implications to the financial institutions and to the end-users,…
“Do as I say not as I do!” The Web 2.0 is supposed to be about the open, collective, community-based use and evolution of the Web, so what happened here when O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0” and sets lawyers on IT@Cork? This recent trademark…
Theory “a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; “theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses”; “true in fact…
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Ajit Jaokar’s Open Gardens weblog… Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click on the above Carnival of the Mobilists button to go the…
I found a very neat web site called Total Eclipse (http://www.launchphotography.com) by photographer Ben Cooper, with photos of current and past Space Shuttle and other rocket launches, for example, you will find a great collection of new photos of the Shuttle Orbiter Discovery…
Every now and then I like to write about a (mobility) blogger that I really like… And today, I want to write about The Pondering Primate weblog… And while he is known as the Pondering Primate, his real name is Scott P. Shaffer,…
On his blog, Seth Godin asks himself “Why hasn't the whole cell phone industry exploded?“. While Seth's believes it is because "we've been trying to solve the wrong problem.", that is not the true reason… The problem is twofold – from the technology…
The Mobile Services Architecture (JSR-248) or MSA is almost final. The MSA expert group has published the Proposed Final Draft Specification: “This JSR creates a mobile service architecture and platform definition for the high volume wireless handsets continuing the work started in JSR-185…
InvenSense has released their Integrated Dual-Axis Gyroscope… Very neat, great potential. More than half a year ago I was immersed in a thinking session, when the idea of using the dimension of space for mobile applications and presence came about – and with…
Perimeter: The distance around a figure. The other day I read via Textually/Ringtonia about a fight that broke out in the Iraqi parliament after a mobile phone ringtone played a Shia Muslim chant – see Shia ringtone sparks scuffle in Iraqi parliament. Later…
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