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Monthly Archives: March 2007

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Z750 MSA-compliant phone from Sony Ericsson

Z750 HSDPA phone I was expecting the first MSA phones to come out around the summer time, but SE's announcement of the Z750 beat that. Awesome. The first MSA phone on the market… The SE Z750, a tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE handset…

The Next Battlefront (for Mobile Applications)

This blog was written back in 2007 — before the days of App Markets. These were the days when Operators totally controlled the Device/Smartphone experience. Android and iPhone were just coming out. One of the next “battlefronts” for mobile application vendors will widgets…

Carnival of the Mobilists #66

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Rafe Blandford's All About Symbian; 19 entries from context in mobility to Oz' IM. Very good entries overall, but two entries caught my eyes specially (not in any particular order): 1) Kiran Bellubbi (SmallDoses)…

Latest Microsoft Update – The Big Brother Patch

What the hell… so there is a new Microsoft XP patch (update)… it is about the “Genuine Windows Notification”… The EULA says “WILL HELP YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE RUNNING A PROPERLY LICENSED…” Hm… is the intention to let me know, or let…

Mobile Web FAQ

I started putting together a Mobile Web FAQ with focus on design, development and resources, including answers to questions such as what is the Mobile Web, Widgets and Mobile Widgets, future and other. This FAQ should in theory complement Ajit's Mobile AJAX FAQ.…

Mobile Widgets – Mobease acquired by Webwag

  Congratulations to my friend Thomas Landspurg and the rest of his team on the acquisition of Mobease by Webwag. Tom, their CTO, is a mobility expert, blogger, and mobile widget evangelist, visionary, and implementer; Tom is also the person behind J2MEMap, mobile…

New Article: Using the PIM API for Java ME, Part 4 – Design Considerations

[Update: Fixed hyperlink to part 4, and added links to previous parts (thanks Anders!)] Part 4 of Using the PIM API for Java ME covers some design considerations when using the PIM API. Now it's time to explore design issues that will affect…

Mobile Monday Austin @ Gregg Sporar's and Stuart Mark's Blogs

On his weblog, Gregg Sporar, one of the speakers at the March's Mobile Monday Austin, wrote about the event and posted some pictures. Stuart Marks, who also presented, also wrote about the event on his blog, and posted his slides. Thanks to Gregg…

SxSWi – There's no Such Thing as the Mobile Web (Or Is There?)

Pictured above are, from left to right, Dwipal Desai of youtube.com, Carlo Longino of Techdirt / MobHappy, Michael Sippey, VP Prod at Six Apart Ltd, Daniel Appelquist, Sr Technology Strategist at Vodafone, and Bob Morgan, VP North America at Cognima/ShoZu. The panel discussed…

Enhancing the Bluetooth User Experience with NFC

The Bluetooth 2.1 is incorporating NFC. This is a very interesting and smart approach. The core concept is the use of NFC during the “authenticate” pairing interactions, vs. the use of passcodes over Bluetooth itself… the result, a much better and faster usage…