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Monthly Archives: October 2007

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Austin Is The Top Blogging City (in the U.S.)

According to a Scarborough Research report, Austin, TX (the city where I live) is the top blogging city (in the U.S.): Austin, TX, Portland, OR, San Francisco and Seattle are the top markets for people who read or contributed to blogs. “Not surprisingly,…

Google: The OpenSocial API

Update (Nov 1st): MySpace joins Google’s OpenSocial. More updates: Adding more reference links at the bottom of this entry Google has announced its open social API. Very interesting. This can be big and a leap forward, converging into one service all social information…

McNeil Family Support – Mobile Diva

The blogosphere is a very large virtual space. But in reality, where and when it matters, it is a small community of friends and family. This is why I am writing this post… Darla Mack, the Mobile Diva (who in real life is…

AT&T (Cingular) Network fall “back” to standard time issue

If you are using AT&T (Cingular) I hope that your application doesn’t rely on network-time for execution. You see, AT&T’s network-time is off. Thanks to AT&T I would have been a whole hour too early (thanks Michelle) late to an event this weekend…

Donate to Southern California Fire Relief via SMS – Text 2HELP

The southern California fire has touched many lives. This terrible event has even touched the life of Debi Jones (a.k.a. Mobile Jones), a dear friend and fellow Mobilist, who I contacted today and told me the news. Hang in there Debi, let us…

Learn a new language with your cell phone

It is good to see one’s product hit the market. OK, it is not my product, but I built it. Before I started eZee, I provided mobile expertise/services to others (this helped pay the bills and bootstrap in the meantime). One of those…

Sun to say adiós to mobile-specific Java

Some updates; below are responses or reactions to the c/net article from some Sun folks: Terrence Barr, evangelist at Sun, wrote his reactions to the c/net article; see Adieu Java ME? James Goslin, one of the fathers of Java, also wrote his reactions;…

The New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission

I’m not sure that many folks know about the New Horizons probe, which is in route to the Pluto-Kuiper Belt, in the outer solar system (this is beyond the orbit of planet Neptune). The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in January of 2006,…

S60 Touch-based User Interface

One of the things I’ve been wanting/waiting for in S60 is the touch capability; I am keyboard + touch screen kind of user. But that is about to change. At the Symbian Smartphone Show, Nokia announced (and showed) support for touch interfaces. It…

My “NFC in Mobile Commerce” Slides

I recently presented at the Texas Wireless Summit, a session called NFC in Mobile Commerce; see the slides (PDF). The summit was very good, with a great set of speakers. BTW, I didn’t win the award for which I was nominated for the…