Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
The Texas Wireless Summit, organized by the Austin Wireless Alliance is in two weeks, October 14-16, 2008. You can register at http://www.twsummit.com/register/ to attend and interact with industry leaders and learn about the future of the wireless industry. As a special offer to friends and partners of the Austin Wireless Alliance and the Wireless Networking … Read more
Below is my presentation at Design4Mobile. Mobility, Context, Interactions and Data View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: data ortiz) The Design4Mobile mini-conference has been packed with great presentations and people; researchers, designers and implementers from around the world, all with great ideas and information to share. And the town of Lawrence KS is … Read more
Dennis Bournique of WapReview wrote a nice piece on Mobile Web applications, where he ponders on the topic after attending both Mobile Web Megatrends and the CTIA Mobile Jam Session. I agree with most of Dennis’ points. But in the article Dennis mentions two points, from Michael Mace presentation, that are pointed out as necessary … Read more
A number of companies have been applying their encryption technology to SMS. One of these companies is Masabi; see Encrypted SMS As a Backup for Mobile Data Applications (Cellular-news). Is SMS encryption a must have? Do you think users care? Personally, I don’t think so. The problem is lack of true integration with the native … Read more
The Mobile 2.0 2008 conference has been announced for November 3rd 2008 and the list of confirmed speakers looks great. What makes this event special for me is that it has been more in touch with reality, due to the number of practitioners involved. I hope that such spirit continues. I am planning/hoping to attend. … Read more
EWeek reports that the HTC Dream, the first Android phone, is expected to be launched in New York on Sept. 23 on the T-Mobile network. The article also covers the importance for Google to get it right on the first try, which is why they are deploying at first only on a single network provider, … Read more
Photos for the MobileWidget Camp Austin event have been uploaded to Flickr and tagged MobileWidgetCampAustin. If you have any photos of your own, please use the aforementioned tag, and thanks to all who have contributed photos so far: www.flickr.com I’m very happy with how the event turned out; this was the first event of this … Read more
I argue that for mobile interactions such as (smart/2D) barcodes and NFC to really takeoff, they must be “one click away”… OK, no surprise there. But what I really mean is that cellphones should have an explicitly designed and easy to reach “interaction” key/button to initiate the desired interactions… Perhaps a key-button to activate NFC … Read more
The first ever MobileWidget Camp, the MobileWidget Camp Austin was a success. Thanks to all the attendees, speakers and sponsors! I will be posting photos shortly, same with all the results posted notes. Anyone with photos, please post to Flickr. Presentation slides will be posted to Slideshare. Please tag all event-related stuff with tag “MobileWidgetCampAustin”. … Read more
Below are Rudy De Waele (m-trends.org) MobileMonday Amsterdam presentation on “15 Tips To Create Value For Mobile”… as always, great content: 15 Tips to create value for mobile @ Mobilemonday Amsterdam View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: mobilemonday momo#7)