Mobility

Last year when Ron Garriques joined Dell from Motorola, rumors started that Dell might come out with a cellphone/handset. Back then I wrote that Dell as a company doesn’t have what it takes to build a successful handset (market). Sure, they can continue to piggyback on Microsoft and release Windows-based PDAs, but that is not … Read more

From a New Report from Aite Group titled Contactless Payments and NFC in the United States: Beyond Science Fiction: In the absence of increased incentives by card networks, Aite Group estimates that merchant penetration of contactless payment will only increase from 0.5% today to 2.5% by 2014. ceo [Via Glenbrook Partners]

Last week I spent a day at the first Java Mobile and Embedded Developer days conference. It was a great event, very technical in nature, organized by developers for developers. Sun’s Grand Auditorium is a beautiful building, a perfect setup. The organizers, Roger Brinkley and

Sean Sheedy sent me an email about an important meeting that is going to be taking place today in Santa Clara. If you are there, you should attend, and express your opinion, feedback, concerns… ceo The meeting is introductory. There have been years of blogs and articles and JavaOne hallway conversations about the issues facing … Read more

The day after I gave my presentation on NFC and Information Ubiquity, I found a good summary of NFC today around the world (ZD Net), that covers NFC deployments in Australia, Asia, and Europe. Most often that sort of data transfer takes the form of payment — but applications are already going beyond that to … Read more

The Presentation slides are complete, the bags are packed, and I am ready to go to MEDD. Also see Come join us at BarCampME, January 23rd, Santa Clara, CA. The slides look very good (not that I’m biased) and cover: Information Ubiquity Application Triggers and Use-cases Background on NFC NFC Code Example, and Pointers The … Read more

Microsoft cancels its annual conference for mobile and embedded developers… …and Sun will have its first Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Conference. And don’t forget about the BarCampME. ceo

Come join us! It should be fun… BarCampME is scheduled for 8:30 PM Wednesday January 23rd until 8:30 AM Wednesday January 24th, during the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days (MEDD) conference! BarCampME bridges the two days of the conference. You don’t have to be a MEDD attendee to participate at BarCampME. For more information see … Read more

This has become a yearly tradition, see The Frustrations of Java ME… Russell wrote: According to a Greg Ballard of mobile games maker, Glu, in a recent interview in Mobile Entertainment, their Transformers game needed no less than 25,000 SKUs (or variants). 25,000! This has reached the point of absurdity. I bet there is misinformation … Read more

Below are a couple of citations from the article The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry (Wired Magazine); a very good article indeed: “For decades, wireless carriers have treated manufacturers like serfs, using access to their networks as leverage to dictate what phones will get made, how much they will cost, … Read more