Mobility

The MobileWidget Camp Austin event schedule has been posted… Developers, bring your laptops, and go to the above event hyperlink for instructions on downloading the Yahoo! and Nokia Widget SDKs, which will be use during the coding labs. See you Sunday! ceo

I recently wrote an article on using JSON on mobile Java applications. From the article: Choosing the right data interchange format is an important design decision when building any network-aware software. This is especially true when designing mobile and embedded applications, where attributes such as lightweight and efficient are important characteristics to consider. Such characteristics … Read more

Levi Shapiro wrote a neat article on Fierce MobileContent titled Austin round-up: The new hotbed for mobile; check it out. And I agree w/ Levi… While Austin is not Silicon Valley, Austin is a great place to start your company, raise your family, and enjoy life. If you have any questions about Austin and how … Read more

A reminder that this weekend, Sept 7th 2008 is the MobileWidget Camp Austin event: See the tentative event schedule (it looks pretty good!). It is a free, informal, and fun event, with food and drinks throughout the day, great topics and speakers including Nokia, W3C, Yahoo!, the OMTP, Vodafone, Opera and others, as well as … Read more

At A fresh take on the browser (Official Google Blog), the Google team writes about Chrome, their WebKit-based web-browser: On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and … Read more

As (I) expected (and predicted), Google has launched its own application store or marketplace; see Android Market: a user-driven content distribution system (Android Developers Blog). And with the Android Market solution, Google is addressing the problem of application discovery and download; and their approach is user-centric, similar to YouTube — very, very good; exactly as … Read more

A quick note about the Mobile Web Megatrends event, organized by Ajit Jaokar of FutureText. The event is on Sept 8th. The event is a gathering of mobility practitioners/experts including Mike Rowehl (Skyfire), Barbara Ballard (Little Springs Design), Michael Mace (Rubicon Consulting), William Volk (MyNuMo), and folks from OMTP, Oracle, Cellfire, and many other. Me, … Read more

A good intro article about MSA2 at the Sun Mobility website – see Mobile Service Architecture 2 — Coming Your Way. Related to this see Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) 2 (About Mobility Weblog). ceo

SMS is King, from the end-user’s perspective. SMS is heaven, from the operators’ perspective, as it is a cash cow. And SMS is hell for businesses offering messaging, but that don’t have a good plan for monetizing it… SMS is way expensive to offer. For example, in the U.S.: A dedicated keyword will cost you … Read more

Hecl is a scripting language engine that runs on MIDP2. The scripting language is a wrapper for MIDP, and allows you to very quickly create UI elements, access the record store, use HTTP, access the file system (if available) and even use kxml2 XML parser. You can call Hecl code from Java, and even create … Read more