Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
Thanks, Steve — Created by Jonathan Mak. Steve Jobs’ legacy spans a number of industries — the personal computer, computer graphics & visualization, the movie industry, the music industry, telecommunications and mobile devices, retail stores. The impact he made across technology sectors was like no other before him. His legacy touched so many people, directly, … Read more
The App Developers Conference and Hackathon is taking place Oct 26-27, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA. ADC addresses key components of App development, marketing and revenue on mobile devices and tablets. Walmart and Pandora will deliver the keynotes. Additionally we have more than 50 speakers, including leading developers participating. Speakers include: Bump, Netflix, Smule, Flurry, … Read more
I just blogged at the Austin Startup blog, about Evernote in Austin; the popular Evernote is opening a development Studio in Austin. The company is growing fast — they started the year with 45 people and are looking to grow to 130 by the year end. And they have about 11 million users, and growing. … Read more
A week ago or so, HP announced that it was pulling the plug on their webOS devices, including their TouchPad. A few days ago, TouchPads go on fire sale for $99. And guess what? They are selling like hot cakes. Now HP TouchPad will soon to be running Google Android via Touch Droid. Ironic. There … Read more
On September 1st, 2011 is the 6th edition of the Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco: Our one-day event, presented by the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee, focuses on understanding and leveraging Mobile Ecosystems, building and successfully monetizing new Mobile Applications and Services, and exploring Disruptive Mobile Innovation and Business Models. This is a very unique event, … Read more
The latest big news on Android is Google’s acquisition of Motorola’s Mobility group. And I have to say, I wasn’t expecting that one. The main arguments floating around on the acquisition are: Patent play, driven by the patent war including the recent Nortel patent acquisition by Google’ competitors Hardware play, which better positions Google against … Read more
A friend of mine who works at Phunware recently pointed me to their blog to read about a recent acquisition they have made; very cool, congrats. Then a recent blog post of theirs caught my eye (as it is a topic close to my heart): The Delusion of “Write Once Run Anywhere” Mobile App, where … Read more
Ajit Jaokar from London’s Futuretext (and the Open Gardens blog) interviewed me on the state and future of mobile web… Following Dan Appelquist’s interview, I am very pleased to present the next Mobile Web Influencer interview – Good friend and industry guru C. Enrique Ortiz. Even in this brief interview, I really like the way … Read more
Near-field Communication (NFC) is a very-short range (proximity) radio communication technology introduced a number of years ago, but it is not until now that we are going to start seeing adoption and interesting applications that uses NFC. One is mobile payments, but there is much more than that. NFC is just a type of interaction, … Read more
As discussions and opinions continue at Forxum Oxford on the topic of mobile leadership and Nokia and so forth, the following statement was made by Tomi Ahonen, for which I responded as follows. Why I am writing about this? Because it is important to understand some of the reasons why some are leaders or are … Read more