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On ubiquity

A big theme post-PC era was ubiquitous computing. …but ubiquitous computing is too abstract and means nothing all by itself. But when applied to humans, ubiquitous computing is more about computing for the purpose of communication and for the purpose of information access.…

W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web

Call for Participation… From the W3C website: “The Ubiquitous Web “takes advantage of the diversity of networked devices,” said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon). Attendees will examine technologies and help W3C make choices for standardization to realize the vision of distributed applications that adapt to…

On Ubiquitous Computing…

I have been giving a lot of thought to the foreground-background definitions for the qualities of mobility that I initially read at Lifeblog… Today at Lifeblog is a good piece on ubiquitous technologies and the concept of foreground/background computing. The definitions of foreground-background…