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Monthly Archives: January 2007

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About ordering used books from Amazon (rip off)

So I ordered Applying UML and Patterns 3rd Edition by Craig Larman… a must have text on OO analysis, design and iterative software development… To save some money, since I also ordered Design by Contract by Richard Mitchell and Jim McKim, another must…

Mobile Payments – one of the most important annoucements in CES 2007

While the Apple phone announcement took CES 2007 by storm (as in taking attention away from CES), there is another announcement that is as important, if not more important, than the Apple phone:     ⇒ Visa, Nokia turn cell phones into credit…

Once again, Apple redefines… (this time the mobile handset)

Apple has announced its new phone – a full surface screen mobile handset that is just sweet. While Nokia and BenQ had previously exposed concept phones with a full surface screen for UI, Apple is the one taking the concept all the way…

Web Browsing User Experience on Mobile Phones

Nokia Research Center Virpi Roto's Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Web Browsing on Mobile Phones – Characteristics of User Experience provides mobile web browsing background information, and characteristics for improving the mobile browsing user experience. ceo

NASA manned space exploration plans for the next 20 years

It is very exciting to see NASA (trying) to go back to its roots of space and human planetary exploration. See below NASA’s plans for the next 20 years – until 2016. And it is it is about returning to the Moon, and…

Carnival of the Mobilists #58 @ Wap Review

Photo by Rick Takagi Dennis at WAP Review has published Carnival of the Mobilists #58, the first one of 2007, with 20 blog entries from mobility bloggers from around the world… read about mobile predictions, reviews, technology and business plans. ceo

Mobile Design Pattern Library

Barbara Ballard of little springs design has published a mobile design patterns Wiki, and she is looking for participation: “Little Springs Design has posted a Wiki containing the pattern library in my new book, Designing the Mobile User Experience. So far, it's got…

ITU digital.life Report

The 8th edition of the ITU Internet Reports, entitled “digital.life“, is available for download. The report was prepared for ITU TELECOM World 2006 (December 4-8 2006, Hong Kong). The report examines how innovation in digital technology is radically changing individual and societal lifestyles.…

Trackbacks have been disabled (temporarily)

Due to a new round of trackback spamming, I've decided to disable trackbacks… Trackback spamming was very low for a long time, but now it is back. I will re-enable trackbacks once this current spamming cycle is over… Note that comments are still…

BLUE ORIGIN REVEALED

Cosmic Log has published a story titled Blue Origin Revealed, where you can read and learn about Blue Origin, which is Jeff Bezos aerospace company – see pictures and a short video of their successful maiden test flight of their Goddard rocket vertical-take-off-and-landing…