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Monthly Archives: July 2008

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Apple Store, part 2 — 25 Million Apps Downloaded in 11 days

Not bad… From Apple Says 25 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded (CNN): Apple Inc. (AAPL) said iPhone owners has downloaded 25 million copies of software programs for the phone in about 11 days, which it sees as a significant benefit for future iPhone sales.…

The End of Software Patents?

This is big. This very much could mean the end of software patents… See the article The Death of Google’s Patents (Patent Law Blog). From the Patent Law Blog article: If the PTO’s test is followed, the crucial question for the vitality of…

Fragility of Services on the Web

A lot of noise recently, triggered by the recent S3 Outage, on the fragility of Web Services… And guess what? This is (and will continue to be) a recurring and expected theme on the highly interdependent world of Mashups and services on the…

A very good day for physical to digital worlds connection companies. U.S. Patent Office Rejects All Ninety Five NeoMedia Patent Claims

Back in March of 2006 I wrote about Neomedia’s patent claims related to computer systems that rely on scanned inputs — they claimed that they owned the IP for all technologies and computer systems that perform processing based on scanning barcodes, 2D codes,…

Juniper Research: NFC Mobile Payments to Reach US$75 Billion by 2013

Another report that claims big numbers; this time by Juniper Research — see NFC Mobile Payments to Reach US$75 Billion by 2013 (via Payment News). 2013, or five years from today, seems about right for the NFC sweet spot (or start of). But…

Apple Store – 10 million downloads in just 3 days (who said local apps are RIP?) It is about ease of discovery.

Update Jul-22: Apple Says 25 Million IPhone Apps Downloaded (in 11 days). Wow… SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) said iPhone owners has downloaded 25 million copies of software programs for the phone in about 11 days, which it sees as a…

Final Space Shuttle Manifest – 10 more missions before fleet is decommissioned

NASA has published the remaining shuttle flights manifest. Ten more space shuttle missions before the fleet is decommissioned; that’s it: The manifest includes one flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, seven assembly flights to the International Space Station, and two station contingency flights,…

Reminder: MobileMonday Austin, July 14th with Oracle

A reminder that next Monday July 14th is our next Austin MobileMonday session. A very interesting topic, come see Nikunj Mehta, tech lead for Oracle’s AtomDB project, talk about an emergent approach to mobile applications and browser-embedded databases, involving the use of the…

The C. Enrique Ortiz Phenomenon

What began as a colorful Internet fluke has blossomed into a full-fledged political movement – one that Republicans and Democrats alike are reluctantly having to acknowledge. See The C. Enrique Ortiz Phenomenon: ;-) ceo (P.S. Thanks to my brother Carlos)

RoboCup Japan Open 2008 competition

Some videos of the RoboCup Japan Open 2008 competition this past May (via Robot Dreams): Various Competitions: Robot Sprints: Robot Fights: