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RIM Announces Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server

A smart move by Research in Motion to serve small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) by hosting the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. See their Press Release. ceo

Tom on Widgets

A very good post by Tom Landspurg on (mobile) widgets. See his post What is a (mobile) Widget. Tom gets it right… on the definition, the concepts and challenges behind widgets. I'm looking forward to see a kick ass widget engine for mobile…

On J2ME MIDP Navigation

Barbara and Tom Hume got it right – mobile applications should really follow the underlying UI metaphor/behavior vs. implementing their own in an attempt to create “consistency across handsets”… From the developer's perspective, initially it may seem such consistency is the right approach,…

Results for Developer Survey – Are You Using "Location" in Your App?

The bar chart below shows the results for the developer survey “Are you using “Location” in your app?”, as of June 25th, 2006. A total of 90 developers have responded. As with past polls, this poll will remain open to continue capturing developer…

The Actionable Mobile Context

The Mobile Context is comprised of many elements that distinguishes it from the desktop context. Some of these elements are time, space, the mobile perimeter, the social and personal aspects, and other, and how these define and effect the mobile usage and/or behavior…

Analysis and Opinions on the Future of Messaging

Above is a (Google) trend  graph for SMS, MMS, IM and e-mail… If we look at the MMS trend chart we will see that MMS activity has remained very flat over time, an indication of the level of interest, with much lower activity…

Mobiles for a Smaller World

There is a good presentation by Lara Srivastava on Mobiles for a Smaller World (PDF) that she presented during the Fifth Annual Mobility Roundtable (2006) that took place in Helsinki. Lara is a member of the international advisory committee for the mobility roundtables.…

Top 15 Countries in Mobile, January 2006

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has published the Top 15 Countries in Mobile, as of January 2006… “China is by far the overall leader with 393.4 million subscribers, almost twice as many as the United States in second place with 201.7 million.” ceo…

Mobile Banking has Finally Arrived

Is mobile banking finally here (I mean, in the U.S.)? It has taken financial institutions a long time to understand and feel comfortable with the technologies behind mobile banking, as well as understanding the implications to the financial institutions and to the end-users,…

Gyros on Mobile Handsets – A Very Powerful Tool

InvenSense has released their Integrated Dual-Axis Gyroscope… Very neat, great potential. More than half a year ago I was immersed in a thinking session, when the idea of using the dimension of space for mobile applications and presence came about – and with…