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Monthly Archives: November 2006

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W3C has released Widgets 1.0: Working Draft

Very interesting… the W3C has taken a stab at a Widgets spec for packaging and scripting and other! Awesome! Exactly what is needed — order, consistency, a common technical approach. From the W3C web site: 2006-11-09: The Web Application Formats Working Group has…

Latest Infrared Data Association numbers

Infrared continues to be an important point-to-point secure communications technology… The Infrared Data Association recently made some announcements, including the following: “…its newly published Market Report which shows IrDA has crossed the 1 Billion Mark, with the unprecedented growth of 297 million IrDA…

Daniel Appelquist on Mobile 2.0, and views on a different kind of Mobile 2.0

A number of Mobilists have been taking stabs at the definition of what the next generation of mobile is – this sometimes is referred to as Mobile 2.0. Ajit and Tony at OpenGardens took a stab at defining Mobile Web 2.0, and Daniel…

The Mobile 2.0 event – postmortem

Mike Rowehl, organizer of the Mobile 2.0 event summarizes his views on the Mobile 2.0 event and the mobile industry. Thanks to Mike for organizing the Mobile 2.0 event and taking such initiative/leadership… Mike has done his part to make a difference, and…

Sony Ericsson acquires UIQ

  Just learned via Ander's blog, that Sony Ericsson is in the process of acquiring UIQ from Symbian. This is pretty big news. This ties the fate of UIQ directly to SonyEricsson. I always thought UIQ is a superior interface that provides great…

Carnival of the Mobilists #52 @ All About Symbian

Rafe Blandford has published this week's Carnival of the Mobilist, number 52. Good stuff as usual, go check it out… From All About Symbian: “It is time for the 52nd Carnival of the Mobilists (CotM) and as it enters its second year it…

Your web site "is broken" if…

Your web site “is broken” if… visiting users have to fall back to the browser's search box to (externally) find what they are looking for… Many web sites are so poorly designed and/or organized, that it is faster to find information on it…

The P-51D Mustang

Perhaps the most gorgeous airplane ever built is the P-51D Mustang. Built by North American Aviation company and introduced in 1942, is just a flying beauty. And while the Mustang I always liked since I was a child, it is not until two…

Taking Google's new Gmail mobile client for a spin

Google's new Gmail mobile (local) client is now available. I installed the Java ME client for a quick spin. The app, even without push or autosync email, is a winner – an example of the kind of rich clients that I (and others)…

Commercial Seafood Species May Collapse by 2048

See Ocean 2048: Experts fear collapse of fish species. And remember…