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Monthly Archives: June 2006

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Carnival of the Mobilist – Pick the Best Post For June

The poll for the Carnival's best post for June is up… My entry, “The Mobile Perimeter” is running – if you liked it, feel free to vote for me! :-) ceo

Carnival of the Mobilists 34 at W2F

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Jan Kuczynski at the Wireless World Forum – go check it out. Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click on Carnival of…

Elements of Social Networks Software

On his blog, Tristan Louis wrote 5 reasons why social networks can succeed. But what Tristan has described is much more than 5 reasons to succeed – he described the true essence of social networks software: Viral Nature Provides an Online Identity Enhances…

Intel selling its phone-chip unit to Marvell is a big deal – think XScale

It is all over the news: Intel sells phone-chip unit to Marvell for $600 million… Buckley of MobHappy wrote on his blog about how this decision may signify the beginning of the death of Intel. While I don't think it will be the…

On J2ME MIDP Navigation

Barbara and Tom Hume got it right – mobile applications should really follow the underlying UI metaphor/behavior vs. implementing their own in an attempt to create “consistency across handsets”… From the developer's perspective, initially it may seem such consistency is the right approach,…

Soccer Hurts

Like the 1975 Nazareth song, Love hurts… but this time is about soccer… Soccer hurts, Soccer scars, Soccer wounds, and marks… If you follow soccer, and play soccer, you know how physical the game could be… And last week was my turn –…

Results for Developer Survey – Are You Using "Location" in Your App?

The bar chart below shows the results for the developer survey “Are you using “Location” in your app?”, as of June 25th, 2006. A total of 90 developers have responded. As with past polls, this poll will remain open to continue capturing developer…

Is your text-typing speed slow? You may have Dystextia

While texting – communicating with text messaging, is great, the act of texting itself (typing) I hate – texting is a pain in the thumb. T9 and similar technologies never worked to my satisfaction… This is why I rather use (and own) handsets…

Tom on Flash Lite

Tom Landspurg wrote a good piece, his perspective on Flash Lite, check it out – Another Flash from J2me developer perspective (Part1) From the Flash Lite website: What Is Flash Lite? Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically developed for mobile phones and…

Java ME – Summary of CLDC-Based Profiles

“Explore CLDC and the Profiles defined for use with the Connected Limited Device Configuration. Enrique Ortiz writes about the most common Java ME execution environment.” » Read Summary of CLDC-Based Profiles ceo