During CES 2007, Nokia and VISA put together a demo of NFC in action, using the Nokia 6131 NFC handset. This NFC event is one of the most important announcements in CES 2007, I kid you not; Mobile Payments and NFC/contact-less are part…
Handsets are first and most about voice, about communications. The ITU has published Voice Revenues in the Telecommunications which is worth checking out: “In 2004, as in 1991, voice constituted more than 90% of telecom revenue surpassing, by far, income from any other…
What is Google trying to say? And this one, see the SQL statement printed on the package content's print: ceo
A good piece by Christian Lindholm where he writes: Will iPhone create a new dominant design in mobile user interfaces? One of Christian's points is: “In my view a phone is a one hand operated device which can be used while moving. While…
Just a note to people who ask me questions or guidance or advise (on mobility stuff)… Please note that I am more than happy to help people – that is the reason I write, to share and teach and help others in our…
I was reading Erik Smartt's blog where he wrote about the recent winter storm here in Austin… Yeap, it was pretty bad. Ice everywhere, and it even snowed here, which is not typical. Erik made me laugh with the photo he grabbed of…
Steve Jobs introduces the magically proprietary Apple phone: Apple advances user-restricting technology five years: Click to enlarge
There are 2 main killer applications: 1) access to friends-and-family, and 2) access to information… …and Search has been and will continue to be a killer application; it is about better access to information. Today I found Quintura, a visual search web engine……
Photo by Rick Takagi Some rights reserved. This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Tom Landspurg's TomSoft weblog – 17 blog pieces from mobilists from all around the blogosphere – topics include opinions and news on Apple's new mobile handset, on mobile…
I landed on Doug T's blog, a Mozilla Minimo developer, while working on the 2007 Mobile Monday Austin calendar planning. At Doug's blog I read his entry The new “walled garden”, and I liked his following quote: “The new walled garden is not…
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