Steve Jobs comments on Amazon’s Kindle (from NY Times The Passion of Steve Jobs): “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read…
Come join us! It should be fun… BarCampME is scheduled for 8:30 PM Wednesday January 23rd until 8:30 AM Wednesday January 24th, during the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days (MEDD) conference! BarCampME bridges the two days of the conference. You don’t have to…
This has become a yearly tradition, see The Frustrations of Java ME… Russell wrote: According to a Greg Ballard of mobile games maker, Glu, in a recent interview in Mobile Entertainment, their Transformers game needed no less than 25,000 SKUs (or variants). 25,000!…
Below are a couple of citations from the article The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry (Wired Magazine); a very good article indeed: “For decades, wireless carriers have treated manufacturers like serfs, using access to their networks as leverage…
A small but interesting survey of 300 mobile phone users in Japan (via What Japan Thinks) has shown the results below, but could this be representative of the expected behavior on other parts of the world? Votes Percentage From a scanned QR…
The main issues or concerns with device repositories are 1) the time and resources required for maintaining the repository accurate and useful over time, and 2) fragmentation (a favorite topic in mobility). When developing a product, you either marry to a specific solution,…
Via Michael Yuan’s blog: Austin TX is the #3 best city for jobs in America. ceo
From Bruce Schneier on Steal This Wi-Fi: Security is always a trade-off. I know people who rarely lock their front door, who drive in the rain (and, while using a cellphone) and who talk to strangers. In my opinion, securing my wireless network…
Richard Humbach, Nokia Emerging Business Unit on Mobile payments and banking with NFC (4:51min) ceo
Little by little, contactless (NFC) awareness, in this case with respect to mobile payment, is happening, plus interesting information about consumer preferences with respect to this. Below is some information from a recent survey (end of 2007) by ABI Research on this topic:…
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