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Monthly Archives: September 2007

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The Mobile Context — The Effects of Leveraging the Mobile Context; a Framework for Mobile Context.

Leveraging the mobile context has a positive effect on the mobile user experience. As described in the essay The Mobile Context, the mobile context is defined as: “The user’s mobile context can be defined as the set of and the intersection between facts,…

Google Lunar X Prize

Google is funding the Lunar X Prize with $30 million, to encourage private teams to go to the moon, with $20 million to the first private enterprise to put a robot on the moon. Very nice Google! I love the space program, and…

Opening Microsoft Office 2007 documents in Office 2003

With the new Microsoft Office 2007 release, comes new file formats. And with new file formats come the questions “but what the hell happened with the concept of backward compatibility?”, and “is this Microsoft’s strategy to force everyone to move up to Office…

Betavine Project: ContextMessages

There is an interesting new project at Vodafone’s Betavine website that is called ContextMessages. Check it out. Context Aware Messaging for Bluetooth and Java Enabled Mobile Phones It should be a pretty neat project/study. The idea is to apply “personal, spatial and temporal…

Java Mobile & Embedded Community Stars

I recently got recognized, along with others in the mobile Java community, as a Java Mobile & Embedded Community Star. Community Stars are members who show noteworthy involvement in the community, be it by posting to forums, providing code, writing blogs, running projects,…

Computing is a natural science

I recently read a great article on how Computing is perceived today, a natural science. Written by Peter J. Denning, director of the Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, you can find this article…

MobileMonday Global Summit

The 3rd annual MobileMonday Global Summit is happening right now… As founder of the Austin chapter, I was invited to attend the summit, but I just couldn’t make it this year (I almost did); just too much/too many things are happening right now…

MobileMonday Austin — Mobile Gaming, Sept 17th

******************* Sept 17th ­ Mobile Gaming ******************* This month we have gaming experts Billy Cain and Paul Trowe come speak about mobile gaming development and publishing. We also will have metrics and trends on mobile gaming from Telephia. It is going to be…

eZee at Under The Radar Mobility Conference

Just got the word from Gary my CMO, that eZee was selected to participate at Under The Radar | Mobility Conference on November 15, 2007… Neat! 42 Startups, 20 Panelists, 400 attendees – 1 Day. …six minutes to tell our story, introduce our…

Austin continues to attract companies

Good to see Austin continue to attract well-known companies… The most recent one is Cray Inc.: “Austin has a very strong high-tech community in both hardware and software and provides a deep pool of technology and engineering talent,” said Peg Williams, senior vice…