Mobility

Perimeter: The distance around a figure. The other day I read via Textually/Ringtonia about a fight that broke out in the Iraqi parliament after a mobile phone ringtone played a Shia Muslim chant – see Shia ringtone sparks scuffle in Iraqi parliament. Later on Ringtonia reported about the controversy caused by another ringtone, “La Migra” … Read more

John Carmack of id Software understands what mobile software development is all about…he really does. I am going to quote to pieces from an interview of him by GameSpot titled “Carmack bitten, smitten by mobile bug“, that tells a lot about his understanding of the mobility space… In the next quote, John is referring to … Read more

Are you using “Location” in your application? I have posted a new mobility poll to understand the distribution of developers using location in their applications. You can find the the current and past mobility polls in my Mobility Resources web site. Also, the current poll can be found on the right side of this blog. … Read more

No surprises here… A Mobile TV study by Red Bee Media concludes the obvious: “full length programming on mobile is not as popular as made for mobile TV because screen sizes are too small, opportunities to watch full length programs on-the-go are rare and subjects preferred to watch full-length programming on the TV” But… it … Read more

In response to comments from various mobility bloggers, including mine, Ajit Jaokar has written part 2 of “Mobile web 2.0: AJAX for mobile devices – why mobile AJAX will replace both J2ME and XHTML as the preferred platform for mobile applications development”. A very good essay that I recommend you read. Ajit did a good … Read more

What kind of mobile application are you creating? I have posted a new mobility poll to understand the distribution of mobile applications being created. You can find the poll at the top of my Mobility Resources page. Also, the current mobility poll can be found on the right side of this blog. ceo

On his website, MobHappy, Russell Buckely wrote here and here about Google changing the way content is displayed on people’s phones, without permission. Below is a modified, expanded version of the comment that I left at MobHappy, in response to Russell's blog entry: I think Google didn’t mean evil here — they just tried to … Read more

In his blog, Tom Landspurg writes about the The Benefits of Fragmentation, and how Innovation and Fragmentation are related to each other… I agree with Tom. At the same time, I disagree with fragmentation just for the hell of it. For example, long a time ago I wrote a piece on my blog titled True … Read more

I have posted a new mobility poll to understand the distribution of people who already have created, people currently creating vs. people who are planning on creating mobility applications… You can find the poll at my Mobility Resources page. Also, the current mobility poll can be found on the right side of this blog. ceo

Cost of Ownership and Walled-Gardens… not a good thing. I previously wrote about how Cost of Ownership (COO) is a stumbling block for the mass adoption of advanced handset services (services beyond text messaging). Combine COO with a closed (walled garden) offering, and the problem is now a compound problem. MVNO Mobile ESPN is a … Read more