Mobility

Scheduled for January 22-24, 2008, the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer conference is devoted solely to the technologies of mobile and embedded Java platforms and is targeted for application developers of intermediate and advanced skill levels, platform developers, and technical personnel at tool vendors, OEMs and carriers. Planning is underway for a series of technical … Read more

(Update: this piece omitted voice as a medium, and it has been updated to reflect such.) A good post by Tom Hume on Iterations, mobile, and Java, on the debate of web vs. local, a debate that in my opinion is getting kind of old. Yet, it is something that still needs to be talked … Read more

A reminder that Mobile 2.0 event is coming soon, and that the early bird special at $145 is coming to and end, available until the end of September. After that the regular price is $185. The event is almost sold-out. What makes Mobile 2.0 event different? The way I see it, this particular event is … Read more

Andrea Trasatti recently wrote: “Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community…” ..but I’m urged to clarify that content transcoding (targeting right markup language), or transformation/adaption (reorganizing content and selecting right assets such as images depending on device characteristics) have been a hot topic since the early days! While things have been … Read more

The iPhone has proven that touch-screen with multi-touch works great on mobile. The iPhone has also proven that true One Web or “the web as-is” (i.e. without transformation) is possible — effectively showing how dotMobi could become irrelevant. Maybe. To be successful, iPhone relies on zooming, touch-screen with multi-touch, and, fingers! Yes, fingers. (Is the … Read more

Following my previous post on 8 BILLION texts sent every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day, it is obvious that text messaging is very popular, but it can’t help the stupid or the sloppy… See TXT Messages Can Lead to Divorce, Jail ceo

My friend Rudy De Waele sent me an email about his recent presentation that he did last week in London at the Mobile Web 2.0 Conference. Rudy’s presentation, Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem (at Slideshare), is a great summary of Mobile 2.0 and the related ecosystem today. Related to this also see Rudy’s essay on Understanding … Read more

Tomi T Ahonen writes SMS text messaging worth 100 B dollars in 2007, where he covers clear and impressive numbers that show that the use of SMS is not slowing down, and won’t slow down at time soon. 8 BILLION texts sent every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day. It … Read more

Phil Solis, of ABI research, writes Get Ready for a Wave of Mobile Internet Devices, where he briefly covers the kind of new Intel-based devices that he saw at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). MIDs (mobile Internet devices) have been derived from concepts such as Nokia’s web tablets and WWAN-enabled UMPCs. note: I disagree with … Read more

Interesting that Tim writes about flat rates being considered harmful… Just last week I wrote that flat rates are the Requirement #1 for Mobile 2.0. To make sense why flat-rates are important, you need to understand what a “Mobile 2” application is. A next generation mobile application is a highly connected/interactive one; one that relies … Read more