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The Texas Independent Game Conference takes place in Austin on July 22nd/23rd and attendees will get the chance to hear from indie veterans willing to share their successes and their experience as well as presentations addressing market trends, distribution, on-line security, development tools, IP protection, structuring a deal and the opportunities in the mobile and … Read more

Just wanted to congratulate the Italians, 2006 FIFA World Cup Champions… Congratulations also to France and Germany…                                                                   ceo [Flags Credit: CIA World … Read more

If it is not too much to ask, please re-subscribe to my feed using the following URL (feedburner): http://feeds.feedburner.com/CEnriqueOrtizWeblog I debated a lot if I should depend on an external web tool for this – see Should SLAs be extended to Web 2.0? But after reading Xen's blog on consolidating feed URLs, I've decided to … Read more

It is all over the news: Intel sells phone-chip unit to Marvell for $600 million… Buckley of MobHappy wrote on his blog about how this decision may signify the beginning of the death of Intel. While I don't think it will be the death of Intel, it does seem short-sighted. But also, this event is … Read more

While texting – communicating with text messaging, is great, the act of texting itself (typing) I hate – texting is a pain in the thumb. T9 and similar technologies never worked to my satisfaction… This is why I rather use (and own) handsets with a keyboard – today I own a Treo 650 and a … Read more

From Nokia to stop making CDMA phones: “The Finnish company said on Thursday it would pull out of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phone manufacturing, which it sees as a shrinking market in the longer term.” “CDMA is the less popular wireless telephony technology, used by 25 to 30 percent of mobile subscribers, and competes … Read more

Not sure if it is a typo or if it is for real, but Dennis Crouch of Patently-O: Patent Law Blog reports of a case where the PTO gave an estimate for a recently filed application, that it will be examined within fourteen (14) years of the filing date. Wow… I better submit now! You … Read more

See the product overview page, which provides a good summary of Exchange Server 2007. Also see their product FAQ, and the general product preview page. “Exchange Server ActiveSync technology delivers an improved Outlook e-mail and calendaring experience on mobile devices, while offering enhanced device and security policy control.” Microsoft is planning to release its Exchange … Read more

Net Neutrality… have you written to your congressmen? I have! And I encourage you to please do the same… You can find out who your congressmen are by visiting the The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senators of the 109th Congress websites. Net Neutrality is about keeping the net (and thus the web) unbiased, … Read more

Fellow mobilist Xen Mendelsohn and her company Comverse have released their Klonies avatars, now available on Skype – go check it out. Congrats Xen! …Oh, and the above Klonie is my Klonie – sorry, but you can't have that one – taken… :-) ceo