I am going to make a bold prediction… For years, the word has been that local applications are not the best solution because people won’t take the time to download them — the process is just painful. …and today it is. If you…
Oops… It is hard to believe that something like this would slip through…Wow. Details, details… Never assume (that it runs until tested on the handset), or you will make an ASS of yoU and ME… See Flash Lite 2.0 in the Nokia N95…
Sean Sheedy, a good friend of mine, is running for the Micro Edition Executive Committee at the Java Community Process. Sean is a very passionate individual who has great ideas on representing the developer community. He has been involved in this space for…
Some time ago I read about TextMarks at Russell Beattie’s blog. At that time Russ wrote of personalized SMS cards. While I thought it was an interesting idea, I didn’t give it a whole lot of thought. Russ posted more about TextMarks, then…
Windows Mobile, BREW, Symbian, Web, UIQ, Java FX, S60, Palm OS, MIDP, Pocket PC, BlackBerry, SMS, Widgets, iPhone, and now Android… Gheez… Android, Yet Another Platform? Let’s try to predict… Android, a Linux-based platform for mobile handsets that supports local applications via some…
A very interesting article about the role of the PC diminishing in Japan, in favor of personal gadgets such as mobile devices. The same will happen in the U.S. and other parts of the world. In many parts of the world, cellphones already…
Danah Boyd (apophenia) together with Nicole Ellison, have published the introduction piece of a very interesting paper on social networking — see the announcement at danah’s blog, and also see the introduction to Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Abstract: Social network…
It has been a while since I work on true embedded stuff, which is an area that I enjoyed experimenting with. So it is time to do something fun related to this, while relating such efforts to an area that I’m spending an…
I made the switch from AT&T to Internet Phone powered by Time Warner cable. This is why… There was Cingular, now called AT&T (Wireless). There was AT&T long-distance, who call themselves the old AT&T. There was SBC who call themselves the new AT&T.…
Nielsen//NetRatings reports the top social network portals for September 2007: Top social networking sites in September 2007 Audience, 000 Growth Site September 2006 September 2007 YTY Myspace.com 47,189 58,581 24% Facebook 7,765 18,090 133% Classmates Online 13,291 13,313 0% Windows Live Spaces…
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