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Monthly Archives: February 2007

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Blackberry: always connected, higher productivity, higher-pay, personality traits vs. chained to work and unbalanced work/personal-life

ARS Technica published an article on the results of a survey done by Digital Life America that concluded that Blackberry owners are chained to work; not a big surprise here. “The results were split exactly three ways: a third agreed, a third remained…

Flash Lite on 200 Million Handsets. Also, Flash Lite to Support Video

Two press releases by Adobe tell that Flash Enabled Mobile Devices Pass 200 Million, and that Adobe Flash Lite To Support Video for Mobile Handsets… ceo

Jason on The Secrets of Creating Great Connected Java ME Applications

Read a very good write-up by Jason at Paxmodept, where he covers what writing mobile applications is about… While he is talking about Java ME applications, what he describes really applies to (local) mobile applications in general, and not only to Java ME.…

Global Peer Awards go to Switzerland, France and US

The Global Peer Awards have been awarded. And the honors go to Plazes, Realy Eyes 3D and Mobile Complete… Congrats to all. And it is pretty cool to see Mobile Complete win – three months ago I wrote about Mobile Complete, and what…

3GSM World Congress, Mobile Video, and Hype

At techdirt, Carlo writes 3GSM World Congress: What Happened To The Hype?, where he wrote something that caught my eye: “What's interesting, though, is to see non-broadcast video getting a growing amount of attention as smart companies cotton on to the idea that…

Telephony Mashup Contest, and The Programmable Web hits 1,500 Mashups

O'Reilly Media and StrikeIron are organizing a Telephony Mashup Contest – see the rules of the contest. “This new contest provides a stage for developers to demonstrate their creative skills using emerging telephony technologies such as PBX, IVR, and Web Service APIs.” I…

Mobile Monday Austin — The Mobile Lifestyle, February 19, 2007

Mobile Monday Austin — The Mobile Lifestyle, February 19, 2007 Mobile Monday Austin, in partnership with the Austin Wireless Alliance presents The Mobile Lifestyle – metrics, trends and technologies. Topic: The Mobile Lifestyle – metrics, trends and technologies Join us to learn about…

The Problem with Symbian OS

Bruce Stewart points out the Problems with Symbian. This follows concerns voiced by Mike Rowehl when he wrote S60 Platform Dying. Developing for the Symbian OS is no “walk in the park”; Java development truly is a breeze when compared to the Symbian…

3GSM World Congress 2007, Mobile Monday Peer Awards

This week is the biggest mobile/wireless industry show… Unfortunately I won't be attending this year :-(. During 3GSM also is the MobileMonday Peer Awards… (on another unfortunate, I wasn't able to get around to submitting finalists for the Austin Chapter – busy, busy,…

UIQ Technology releases UIQ 3.1 for Symbian OS 9.2

UIQ Technology has released its new version of UIQ, version 3.1: For the latest version of the Symbian OS, version 9.2 Improved graphics API with SVG Tiny, Scalable Vector Graphic API Enhanced softkey configurations and management Enhanced task list for enhanced user navigation…