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Monthly Archives: June 2006

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Carnival of the Mobilists 33

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Rudy at his m-trends.org weblog… Great set of submitted articles covering a wide spectrum of mobility – go check it out. And good job by Rudy this week. Visit the Carnival to read this…

Nokia to stop making CDMA phones

From Nokia to stop making CDMA phones: “The Finnish company said on Thursday it would pull out of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phone manufacturing, which it sees as a shrinking market in the longer term.” “CDMA is the less popular wireless telephony…

Get Your Patents Early (and wait 14 years)

Not sure if it is a typo or if it is for real, but Dennis Crouch of Patently-O: Patent Law Blog reports of a case where the PTO gave an estimate for a recently filed application, that it will be examined within fourteen…

The Actionable Mobile Context

The Mobile Context is comprised of many elements that distinguishes it from the desktop context. Some of these elements are time, space, the mobile perimeter, the social and personal aspects, and other, and how these define and effect the mobile usage and/or behavior…

New Web 2.0 Buzzwords

New set of buzzwords… “Enterprise Mashup” (Mashups as a Service) SOA 2.0 Web-Oriented Architecture Bottom line… It is about Web 2.0 in the Enterprise. ceo

Analysis and Opinions on the Future of Messaging

Above is a (Google) trend  graph for SMS, MMS, IM and e-mail… If we look at the MMS trend chart we will see that MMS activity has remained very flat over time, an indication of the level of interest, with much lower activity…

Is coding in Java ME really a pain?

I keep reading in the blogosphere that coding in Java ME (J2ME) is a pain… And I've a theory why some developers complain about it… Developers who have come from the embedded and/or low-level software development side of computing find Java ME development…

Mobiles for a Smaller World

There is a good presentation by Lara Srivastava on Mobiles for a Smaller World (PDF) that she presented during the Fifth Annual Mobility Roundtable (2006) that took place in Helsinki. Lara is a member of the international advisory committee for the mobility roundtables.…

Top 15 Countries in Mobile, January 2006

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has published the Top 15 Countries in Mobile, as of January 2006… “China is by far the overall leader with 393.4 million subscribers, almost twice as many as the United States in second place with 201.7 million.” ceo…

Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 Product Overview

See the product overview page, which provides a good summary of Exchange Server 2007. Also see their product FAQ, and the general product preview page. “Exchange Server ActiveSync technology delivers an improved Outlook e-mail and calendaring experience on mobile devices, while offering enhanced…