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Monthly Archives: December 2006

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Mobility Resources Customized Google Search

I've added to my mobility resources and weblog web sites support for mobility-specific Google searching; check it out. I will continue tuning the search engine over time. Google search results customized by Mobility Resources using Google Co-op ceo

When it comes to gadgets, how small is too small?

From Wired Magazine, Nov 2006: “The most amazing oversight in electronics design is that although the technologies are shrinking at increasing speeds, our hands are not…” Bryce Rutter, Founder of Metaphase Design Group

Betting on the All-in-One Handset

Gaming, on-line gaming, seamless voice, push-to-talk, VoIP, video sharing and streaming, entertainment, access to work, email, music, IM, payments, SMS, mobile web, etc, etc, etc. The All-in-One handset. BussinessWeek reports that DoCoMo is betting on the All-in-One Gizmo. Mike Elgan from The Raw…

Paxmodept's Javascript Test Suite for Mobile Browsers

Jason at Paxmodept has created a (basic at the moment) test suite to help investigate Javascript and DOM support/capabilities in mobile browsers. See his announcement. ceo

Google releases Patent Search

Google has released the beta version of Google Patent Search, with full text search of the U.S. patents. Note this first version is for granted or issued patents, and not patents in progress. This is going to be a very useful tool. Patent…

DANGER Will Robinson!

Microsoft has unveiled the Microsoft Robotics Studio, a development kit that includes visual drag & drop programming, simulation support, and set of APIs. Apparently the Lego Mindstorms NXT can be programmed with the Microsoft's Robotic Studio software… and we know what's going to…

Granting patents on obvious and widely used techniques – Surfkitchen

Any mobile technologist has the responsibility of understanding the related intellectual property landscape. This is done to understand how existing intellectual property affects you and your company, in other words, that you are not violating other's intellectual property, and/or to understand what intellectual…

A Response to "Assembly Java is Absurd"

I read John's piece Assembly Java is Absurd that was written in response to the original Assembly Java piece… I don't care about religious wars, but allow me to provide some clarification here. John says that he is “knee-deep in my studies of…

STS-116, so far so good

I have been so busy, that I totally missed the fact that the Shuttle STS-116 crew had launched last Saturday onboard Orbiter Discovery (OV-103); the first night launch in 4 years. Night launches are one of the most spectacular things to watch, and…

Learning the C Programming Language at an early age

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