Mobility

Paul Golding has created a new Mobilists group on Facebook: A group for leading thinkers, entrepreneurs and technologists within the mobile/wireless space, hoping to drive innovation within the industry. I created a Mobilists group on Facebook to try and assemble the best people in the mobile industry into one network. It’s completely open for anyone … Read more

The discussions about the death of mobile applications continues on the blogosphere. At ForumOxford, a couple of discussion threads on the same topic have appeared, with the last one discussing if Mobile Apps, Dead or Dying? If you know me, you know that I can’t keep quiet about such topic; especially since all they do … Read more

An interesting perspective by Michael Mace on Mobile applications, RIP, and Mike Rowehl’s response/follow-up to it. Also see David Beers’ response; welcome back David! I would love to see the actual (empirical) data that feeds the two graphs “attractiveness of the platforms to developers” in the blog, if such data exist. If mobile applications are … Read more

Is Local faster, fresher, better? It all depends on what we want to get out of the mobile handset, and the application. But it short, it is. And I’m not making this up. We have Google, who likes (prefers?) Local for mobile applications. Google recently released their Local application for faster search for Nokia handsets … Read more

A great resource on mobile design and pattern’s is Barbara Ballard’s / Little Springs Design Mobile Patterns Wiki… We just re-launched our mobile UI patterns library into a mobile design resources center including UI patterns. It’s a Wiki, and we’d like as much contribution as possible. The idea is to have an useful, community-based, and … Read more

TR writes their 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008. One of them is Offline Web Applications. Kevin Lynch (chief software architect at Adobe Systems) believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of both the browser and the desktop. While the above article is more focused on Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) which … Read more

Barbara writes “Java ME is dead. Long live Java ME.“, about how the word out there is about mobile web, but what her customers are ordering are Java mobile applications… Why local applications? Barbara explains it well on her blog post. Indirectly, this same explanation also shows that once the browser-runtime of the “future” gets … Read more

I am proud to have Michael Yuan, senior developer and mobility expert at eZee, inc., present at JavaOne 2008: Austin, TX.–(WIRE) February 7, 2008 – eZee, inc. the Interactive Mobile Marketing Platform company is proud to announce its senior Java developer, Dr. Michael Yuan will present on 2 topics at the largest gathering of Java … Read more

Cisco’s CEO John Chambers defines ‘mobility’ at Mobile World Congress 2008. Their definition is way to narrow, and it reveals their true nature (still), which is “an equipment manufacturer”: “Most people talk about mobility in terms of a device,” he told analysts and reporters Monday. “But the challenge is to think of mobility as the … Read more

In the past I’ve written about DeviceAnywhere; in my blog, and I even got quoted about DeviceAnywhere on Wired Magazine. In this piece I’ll cover some information to help you determine if DeviceAnywhere is a good choice for you. DeviceAnywhere provides a service that allows for remote access to real handsets in live networks. I’ve … Read more