Mobility

I read Barbara's (Little Spring Design) piece titled the un-browsers where she describes mFoundry's mojax mobile application framework. I know about mFoundry from before, but wasn't aware of mojax. mojax is their a Mobile “AJAX” application platform, so I went ahead and checked it out. mojax is very cool, but mojax is not Mobile AJAX; … Read more

Any mobile technologist has the responsibility of understanding the related intellectual property landscape. This is done to understand how existing intellectual property affects you and your company, in other words, that you are not violating other's intellectual property, and/or to understand what intellectual properly makes sense to license. Another reason is prior-art searches to ensure … Read more

I read John's piece Assembly Java is Absurd that was written in response to the original Assembly Java piece… I don't care about religious wars, but allow me to provide some clarification here. John says that he is “knee-deep in my studies of object oriented design patterns, refactoring, Java EE, and Java ME”, which is … Read more

An excellent piece written by Rudy De Waele of m-trends.org titled Understanding Mobile 2.0. If you follow the Mobile Web and its evolution, this is a must read… ceo

I'm not a paranoid or conspiracy theory kind of individual, but it is good to know about these things: FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool This could be exploited by anyone, not just the FBI… from the article: The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal … Read more

  The other day I wrote about Mobile Complete and their DeviceAnywhere offering, pointing out that DeviceAnywhere seemed like a great, useful service for the mobile development community… And that just got validated; I just learned (via a trackback that Mobile Forum left on my blog) that Motorola has invested on the company… good for … Read more

A great piece by Daniel at the Mobile Enterpise Weblog — see The Three Halves of Seamless Mobility… Daniel provides a good historical background, talks about the split we currently have between voice and mobile, and other walls. I would like to add to the list of walls the “enterprise vs. consumer-space” wall; as personal … Read more

There are plenty of areas in mobility yet to be developed to its fullest potential. Below is a list of some of the “hot areas in mobility” to follow, or even better, to be part of and make a difference – there is plenty to innovate still: Mobile advertising (web-based, local/native-based) Mobile payments (ordering, payments, … Read more

The Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) forum, an operator-sponsored forum, has released a set of guidelines for mobile terminals such as PDAs and smartphones. The purpose of the guidelines is to minimize fragmentation across handsets. The guidelines OMTP Hardware Requirements And Defragmentation, Trusted Environment (PDF), defines a list of requirements for a trusted environment, as … Read more