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Next Mobile Monday Austin event, an evening with Sun Microsystems, November 13th

Join us at our next Mobile Monday Austin event, an evening with Sun Microsystems. It is going to be a very good event. We are having Stuart Marks from Sun who will cover Java ME and related initiatives and tools. If your company…

J2ME — looking for its place in the enterprise

Read SearchMobileComputing's Mobile platforms: J2ME — looking for its place in the enterprise, on which I was quoted… Also, read Ander's viewpoint on the same topic. ceo

Java ME: De-fragmentation Technical Overview and Design Guidelines

Check out Sun's Java ME: De-fragmentation Technical Overview and Design Guidelines Index. The guidelines cover areas including the platform, screen, input, memory, multimedia, connectivity and other design guidelines… ceo

Death of the landline

Photo source: the Global Mobile Culture pool. Photo taken in Colmar, France.

Carnival of the Mobilists #50

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists goes back home, to MobHappy. Great reading as usual. Wow, it's carnival #50 – it has been a year since the carnival's first edition – awesome! And it is getting better and better each week. I haven't…

Infrastructure and capacity planning

When you hear the word “(information) infrastructure”… what comes to mind? Your servers, routers and switches, and networks? What about software and dependencies to other applications, and related Service Level Agreements (SLAs)? It is all of that. Plus it is people too, and…

A day with a non-technical dev manager

There is a development team… and there is the team's development manager. And the team works on their S/W product, and the manager manages the team. A bug is found, a synchronization problem it is, threads are deadlocking, a synchronization bug by a…

Lady Longhorns UT vs. OU

Today I took my daughter, who this year started to play organized volleyball for the first time (and who has been a soccer player for a couple of years now), to the University of Texas vs. University of Oklahoma women's volleyball game… It…

Dr Paddy Byers on WICD Mobile 1.0

For some time now I've been talking/evangelizing about the convergence of browser-based and rich applications. Recently I wrote about the W3C WICD Mobile 1.0, which if adopted by mobile platforms such as Java ME will be the culmination of this convergence. Dr. Paddy…

Google on the rebirth of (mobile) cool

Read about Google's latest mobile related efforts/offerings – see The rebirth of cool. ceo