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Monthly Archives: September 2007

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Guy on “The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers”; also, a tidbit on this topic

Guy Kawasaki writes The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers, a good fun read (especially if you have to deal with attorneys)… On this topic I will add the following though: –> Keep lawyers and your business separate… One of Guy’s points to…

8 BILLION texts sent every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day.

Tomi T Ahonen writes SMS text messaging worth 100 B dollars in 2007, where he covers clear and impressive numbers that show that the use of SMS is not slowing down, and won’t slow down at time soon. 8 BILLION texts sent every…

Tip of the day: Kayak.com

Today I finished my arrangements for my trip to San Francisco for the Mobile 2 event where I will be speaking. Finding the best airfare deal is always a pain in the neck. My buddy Gary pointed me to kayak.com — and I’m…

Carnival of the Mobilists #92

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Abhishek Tiwari’s weblog, who is hosting the Carnival for the first time, and who has done a great job with it. A great set of entries this week from the blogosphere, including Rudy of M-Trends,…

Phil Solis on new devices at the Intel Developer Forum

Phil Solis, of ABI research, writes Get Ready for a Wave of Mobile Internet Devices, where he briefly covers the kind of new Intel-based devices that he saw at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). MIDs (mobile Internet devices) have been derived from concepts…

The War, a film by Ken Burns

Last night was episode #1 (of seven) of The War, a film by Ken Burns. It is the real story, as real as it gets, as told by the U.S. soldiers who fought at those theaters: in the Pacific, North Africa, and Europe,…

Tim Bray on Flat Rate Considered Harmful

Interesting that Tim writes about flat rates being considered harmful… Just last week I wrote that flat rates are the Requirement #1 for Mobile 2.0. To make sense why flat-rates are important, you need to understand what a “Mobile 2” application is. A…

Vodafone Mobile Web (User-Agent) Debacle

Today I read on multiple weblogs (Mike Rowehl, Barbara Ballard, David Harper), about Luca Passani’s rant on Vodafone’s mishandling of the User-Agent HTTP header. I am writing about this, to show my support. I’m not going to regurgitate Luca’s point here, and you…

Mobile Gaming at MobileMonday Austin was a great session

Last MobileMonday Austin event on mobile gaming was a great one — Paul Trowe (who recently sold his company Pulse Mobile Games to SK Telecom) and Billy Cain (of Critical Mass Interactive) covered the life-cycle of mobile gaming, from conception, to development, to…

Requirement #1 for Mobile 2.0

It is not AJAX. It is not Java ME or other mobile platform. It is not Mobile Web. It is not texting. At least not by themselves. It is –> F L A T     F E E     P L…