Mobility

Anders @ Abiro points to an article by Adobe on Porting J2ME games to Flash Lite. One of the differences pointed out is the use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Flash Lite, which is something that is coming soon to Java ME under JSR 226 which is one of the “mandated” APIs under the … Read more

Yeap, we have been saying that for a while… Mr. Cerf who is chief Internet evangelist at Google says: “Yet, the Internet only reaches a sixth of the world's population… You will get those other 5.5 billion people only when affordability increases and the cost of communication goes down… The mobile phone has become an … Read more

The Future of Mobile Applications is Multiplatform, Multimodal The Future of Mobile Applications is Multimodal, Context-aware and Social The Future of Mobile Applications is exposing and consuming Services on the Web – The Web as the Platform The Future of Mobile Applications is an Iceberg The Future of Mobile Applications is Open, Public, Connected and … Read more

ARS Technica published an article on the results of a survey done by Digital Life America that concluded that Blackberry owners are chained to work; not a big surprise here. “The results were split exactly three ways: a third agreed, a third remained neutral, and a third disagreed. Among just those who own a BlackBerry-like … Read more

Two press releases by Adobe tell that Flash Enabled Mobile Devices Pass 200 Million, and that Adobe Flash Lite To Support Video for Mobile Handsets… ceo

Read a very good write-up by Jason at Paxmodept, where he covers what writing mobile applications is about… While he is talking about Java ME applications, what he describes really applies to (local) mobile applications in general, and not only to Java ME. The emphasis on focusing on highly usable, great user experience on the … Read more

The Global Peer Awards have been awarded. And the honors go to Plazes, Realy Eyes 3D and Mobile Complete… Congrats to all. And it is pretty cool to see Mobile Complete win – three months ago I wrote about Mobile Complete, and what seems to be a very useful service – it feels good to … Read more

At techdirt, Carlo writes 3GSM World Congress: What Happened To The Hype?, where he wrote something that caught my eye: “What's interesting, though, is to see non-broadcast video getting a growing amount of attention as smart companies cotton on to the idea that non-linear, channel-organized video isn't the be-all and end-all of mobile video, and … Read more

O'Reilly Media and StrikeIron are organizing a Telephony Mashup Contest – see the rules of the contest. “This new contest provides a stage for developers to demonstrate their creative skills using emerging telephony technologies such as PBX, IVR, and Web Service APIs.” I think this is pretty cool… Earlier this week, The Programmable Web announced … Read more

This week is the biggest mobile/wireless industry show… Unfortunately I won't be attending this year :-(. During 3GSM also is the MobileMonday Peer Awards… (on another unfortunate, I wasn't able to get around to submitting finalists for the Austin Chapter – busy, busy, but no excuse, my bad). The MobileMonday Peer Awards finalists have been … Read more