Mobility

Windows Mobile, BREW, Symbian, Web, UIQ, Java FX, S60, Palm OS, MIDP, Pocket PC, BlackBerry, SMS, Widgets, iPhone, and now Android… Gheez… Android, Yet Another Platform? Let’s try to predict… Android, a Linux-based platform for mobile handsets that supports local applications via some kind of Java VM that is not Java ME/MIDP-based, with support to … Read more

If you are using AT&T (Cingular) I hope that your application doesn’t rely on network-time for execution. You see, AT&T’s network-time is off. Thanks to AT&T I would have been a whole hour too early (thanks Michelle) late to an event this weekend (translation: I could have slept an additional hour!). Yes, it appears that … Read more

It is good to see one’s product hit the market. OK, it is not my product, but I built it. Before I started eZee, I provided mobile expertise/services to others (this helped pay the bills and bootstrap in the meantime). One of those products I developed is Edigo, a language learning Java ME application for … Read more

Some updates; below are responses or reactions to the c/net article from some Sun folks: Terrence Barr, evangelist at Sun, wrote his reactions to the c/net article; see Adieu Java ME? James Goslin, one of the fathers of Java, also wrote his reactions; see JavaME is *not* dead! Laurie Tolson, Vice President of the Client … Read more

One of the things I’ve been wanting/waiting for in S60 is the touch capability; I am keyboard + touch screen kind of user. But that is about to change. At the Symbian Smartphone Show, Nokia announced (and showed) support for touch interfaces. It was about time. You know, I wouldn’t be surprised that such S60 … Read more

I recently presented at the Texas Wireless Summit, a session called NFC in Mobile Commerce; see the slides (PDF). The summit was very good, with a great set of speakers. BTW, I didn’t win the award for which I was nominated for the summit, but the folks who did win totally deserve it. If you … Read more

I want to congratulate my friend Thomas Landspurg and his team at Webwag, who secured seed funding with the investment fund of the leading mobile operator SFR and the venture capital firm DigiTalents Capital. That is so awesome. See the announcement. Thomas is a great visionary and leader in mobility and widgets. Awesome! ceo

In the past I’ve written that DeviceAnywhere Rocks. A couple of days ago Rob Beschizza of Wired Magazine called me to asked me about my experiences with the tool, for a Wired article he was writing. See the article Inside The Matrix for Mobiles, and my quote: “There’s no substitute for the real thing,” says … Read more

Just saw this about Third Party Applications on the iPhone. Yes, yes… I knew it…. it was a matter of time. (Via Jyri’s Jaiku) ceo

In this blog Rob Tiffany’s of Windows Mobile Accelerator blog wrote his summary about the Mobile 2.0 event. And he wrote something interesting: The words “Microsoft” and “Windows Mobile” were never uttered at this conference which I find strange based on the tens of millions of devices we have in the marketplace. If I based … Read more