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Monthly Archives: May 2007

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The new Microsoft Surface, with advanced kernel debugging

Got the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) while using the new Microsoft Surface? No Worries… The new Microsoft Surface comes with a new interactive, multi-touch-screen kernel-level debugging support! …and it is so good, that even users play with and smile at it. ceo…

On Intellectual Property: obviousness-by-combination

New IP could be based on other's prio-art; this actually occurs often. Below is the Forgent v. EchoStar Jury Instructions on Obviousness: “One way to decide whether one of ordinary skill in the art would combine what is described in various items of…

A true desk-top (surface) user interface

Gosh, I always wanted one of these true surface desk-tops computing interfaces, since the day I saw the movie Tron back in 1982. While the desk-top surface user interface at Tron wasn't touch-screen (that I can remember) or as advanced as the Microsoft…

Carnival of the Mobilists 75

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Andreas Constantinou and Hampus Jakobsson's VisionMobile Forum. The folks at VisionMobile, which is one of my favorite mobility blogs, selected the top 10 mobility submissions from the blogosphere… It has been a while since I've…

The Mobile Operational Management Spec (JSR 232) – about management, fragmentation, and what about MIDP?

The OSGi Framework The JSR 232 Mobile Operational Management Java specification caught the attention of many at JavaOne 2007. A great set of blog post/essays by David Beers on this topic: Is OSGi the Solution for Mobile Java? OSGi and the real This…

On UI design, demos, expectation setting, practicality, and the technical realities of our space

If you are commissioning mobile software design and development work for your product, read below… It is great (ideal) to have UI designers design the ideal user experience and related assets. And it is important to have these UI designers be in touch…

NetBeans Mobility Pack Article: Creating a Mobile-to-Web Service Application

Michal Skvor describes how to use the End-to-End Connection Bridge technology in the NetBeans Mobility Pack to create a mobile client application that consumes a Web service to retrieve the Dilbert daily comic strip, and places it in a LCDUI Canvas on the…

Next MobileMonday Austin event: Mobile Banking and Payments, June 11 '07

Join us to learn about mobile banking and payments. Speakers will cover mobile banking and payment industry metrics, followed by wireless banking and payments over the years and today. Also covered are the challenges and lessons learned related to bringing such mobile commerce…

Standardizing location-based services (LBS)

The ISO has been working on a number of specifications to standardize Geographic information or Geomatics. Below is some information related to this. 1. ISO 19134 “ISO 19134 specifies the data types and their associated operations for the implementation of multimodal location-based services…

Java Mobility Podcast 5: A Talk With Java ME Expert C. Enrique Ortiz

From Java Mobility Podcasts #5: C. Enrique Ortiz, a recognized mobility expert, renowned blogger, developer, and author, touches on a range of mobility topics in this interview, including: moving to CDC; the latest JSRs that are important to mobile developers; mobile AJAX; and…