Tom announces the official launch of Webwag mobile. If you have a recent Java ME phone you can experiment with their mobile widgets, which are authored using an XML for the UI, and a simple scripting language for behavior. Congrats to Tom and…
Currently there is a proposal within the MIDP3 Expert Group, to remove, or I should say, deprecate, the MIDlet pauseApp() life-cycle method… The rationale is that 1) it is a source of confusion for both developers and implementers because it is not consistently…
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists # 77 is at the Symbian in Motion blog. As Zach the host puts it, “…sit back, take a sip of that coffee, make sure that your calls are forwarded – and enjoy!”… … a great set…
Photo Source: GIZMODO UK …and the winner is… the carrier, yes, the network provider… or maybe not? I was going to wait until the release of the iPhone, and wait and see, but I just can't hold this after reading today's newspaper… but…
We had another great and informative MobileMonday Austin last night – the topic was Mobile Banking and Payments. We started the night with some food, followed by industry metrics on mobile commerce, banking and payment courtesy of David Gill of Telephia. Great data…
Planning for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival has already begun… “Scheduled March 7-11 2008 at the Austin Convention Center, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival brings together digital creatives from across the United State and around the world. The event features more…
“Smaller applications mean faster installs, caching enables the updating of resources after installation – two wins for the consumer. Read Enrique Ortiz's latest on improving the application experience.” The article Implementing a Local Cache to Manage Resources builds upon previous articles Externalizing Resources…
A great, successful launch of STS-117. Awesome. I'm glad. The first Shuttle launch of 2007. Mission STS-117, on board Atlantis, is the 21st Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station… this one is taking 7 astronauts to the station. It has been…
Reminder of our next MobileMonday Austin meeting, next Monday June 11th… We will have great industry data from Telephia (thanks to David Gill), and learn about mobile banking and related challenges from Amplify and M-Shift… and if time permits I might even talk…
The final installment of the six-part series on the Personal Information Management API (JSR 75), Summary of PIM Fields, provides a reference on the PIM fields and pointers to related on-line resources. Below is a summary of all six-parts on Using the PIM…
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