Mobility

Read SearchMobileComputing's Mobile platforms: J2ME — looking for its place in the enterprise, on which I was quoted… Also, read Ander's viewpoint on the same topic. ceo

Check out Sun's Java ME: De-fragmentation Technical Overview and Design Guidelines Index. The guidelines cover areas including the platform, screen, input, memory, multimedia, connectivity and other design guidelines… ceo

For some time now I've been talking/evangelizing about the convergence of browser-based and rich applications. Recently I wrote about the W3C WICD Mobile 1.0, which if adopted by mobile platforms such as Java ME will be the culmination of this convergence. Dr. Paddy Byers has written a great follow up titled WICD mobile: MashLite?, where … Read more

Barbara Ballard, of Little Springs Design, has put together the User Experience Bootcamp — get the flier (PDF format). This two-day session is open to startup companies less than two years old, with a focus on mobile devices, software, or services, regardless of technology, that will be used by end users. Bring two to ten … Read more

Jason writes about the buzz around Mobile 2.0, Mobile AJAX, and so on: “While the web 2.0 taxonomy came about as a result of actual and meaningful changes in the web ecosystem, mobile 2.0 is primarily about supposition, wishful thinking and making a quick buck…” Coincidentally, yesterday I wrote about Mobile AJAX Today, in an … Read more

There is a long-term view of Mobile AJAX, and a short/mid-term (or current view) reality about it… Let me start with a brief overview: AJAX is web-browsing (UI) technology. AJAX implies a set of technologies: it's client side scripting that uses HTTP, JavaScript, (X)HTML, DOM (as in Document Object Model), and maybe even CSS (style … Read more

I'm a fan of Widgets and their potential. Widgets are going to be a very important strategy in the consumption of content on the Web, and this includes the mobile environments. But with the plethora of Widgets 'runtimes' that are popping up, developers will have to deal with a new issue: Widget portability – I … Read more

Very, very neat… Mike Rowehl from MoMo Silicon Valley, and Daniel Appelquist from MoMo London are organizing the first The Mobile 2.0 Event, Nov 6th, 2006, in San Francisco… ceo

Paul Golding has written a good piece on Mobile IM – is it really IM?… a reality check. ceo

The other day I attended the Texas Wireless Summit 2006. It was a good event. The summit is a reltively small event but with a great set of (influencial) speakers that included Paul Struhsaker, Motorola, Dr. Sanjay Jha, QUALCOMM, Dr. Sandeep Chennakeshu, Freescale Semiconductor, Moris Simson, WaveNet, Inc., Ted Rappaport, and a number of panelists … Read more