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On Physical and Web Interactions

I’ve updated my page on Physical and Web Interactions… …where the topic that “Everything around us can be made interactive (and thus is data) and at the center of this is the mobile handset”. See Physical and Web Interactions. ceo

Concepts and Technologies behind Real-time Demand Data – A Consumer, Mobile and Business Perspective

A continuation of one of my favorite research topics, the mobile context and the meaning of interactions, below is my latest as presented at the 2009 Demand Analytics conference — this time with focus on real-time demand data, the consumer and businesses. The…

On hardware vs. software-based handset differentiation

Is mobile handset differentiation based on hardware coming to an end? Back in 2007 I wrote a piece on my blog titled: The future of handset design: from hardware to software. And today this is getting more real (and validated) than ever. When…

Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley 2009 – October 15-16

Mike Rowehl and Gregory Gorman are putting together the 4th Annual Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley on October 15-16, 2009: Day One: Business Day: Oct 15, 2009, 08:30am – 07:30pm Grand Hyatt San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Day Two: Developer Day: Oct 16,…

Carnival of the Mobilists #192

On App Stores (Guest Post by Kiran Mudiam)

This week guest post is by Dr. Kiran Mudiam, a long time mobile technologist and a researcher. Here is my take after reading all the letters sent to the FCC. We all know that there are positives and negatives to open and closed…

Mobile Application Stores Conference at CTIA 2009

Ajit and team have been organizing The Mobile Application Stores, Strategy and Deployment conference to happen during CTIA WIRELESS I.T. and Entertainment on October 8th 2009, in San Diego. Featured speakers for the event include: William Volk, CEO, PlayScreen Chetan Sharma, CEO, Chetan…

A word on the Skype Fiasco

Niklas Zennstrong and Janus Friis, Skype, eBay, Joost, Index Ventures, Volpi, Joltid, investors… There are many opinions floating around the Web, but this case is of interest to me because of the following: 1) Buy vs. License, 2) Due-diligence process, and 3) Core-IP…

Reminder: Next Carnival of the Mobilists – Submit your Entries!

First, let me acknowledge the last 3 Carnival of the Mobilists: Carnival #189 (Peggy Anne Salz at MSearch Groove), Carnival #190 (Caroline Lewko at WIP JAM) and Carnival # 191 (Phil Barrett at BurningTheBacon.com) for hosting great editions of the Carnival, and for…

SIM Card Overview

I put together a SIM Card Overview. It provides quick introduction to SIM Cards, standards, some industry numbers, Java Card, and the Smartcard Web Server, and links to Gemalto tools. SIM Card Overview View more documents from C. Enrique Ortiz. ceo