Thoughts on AI, architecture, and building systems that work in the real world.

Joel on Sprint's LG Fusic cellphone

OMG, you guys have to read Joel's review of Sprint's LG Fusic handset. Joel cracks me up! A good, honest review. The following is just one of the examples of the handset's poor UI design/experience that he brings up: “The first thing you…

MobiSys 2007 – Preliminary Call for Papers

Deadlines: Abstract due: November 27, 2006 Full Paper due: December 4, 2006 Acceptance notification: March 8, 2007 Camera-ready paper due: April 6, 2007 Location: Puerto Rico, USA Conference Dates: June 19-22, 2007 (Tentative) Organizers: Conference General Chair: Edward W. Knightly, Rice University Program…

Anousheh Ansari – First Female Private Space Explorer

Anousheh Ansari is a serial entrepreneur and is Chairwoman to Prodea Systems of Plano Texas. She also is the first female private space explorer (tourist), who is flying under commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency. She is part of the International…

On the Space Station, STS-115, a rant and some memories

Today I watched NASA-TV's video stream – you should check it out, it is pretty awesome to see in real-time (or not) the men and women of STS-115 workingat an altitude of 200+ miles, while moving at 17,000+ miles/second. The STS-115 mission is…

scanR – scan, copy, and fax with your digital camera or camera phone

Brandon Watts, evangelist at scanR sent me an email introducing their product… scanR allows you to scan, copy, and fax with your digital camera or camera phone. This could be a handy thing… Check out the short YouTube video that shows how to…

Nokia Phone Software (Firmware) Updater

Keeping your handset firmware (the software embedded in hardware) up-to-date is an important thing to do. Why? Because software is constantly being updated with enhancements and/or bug fixes. If you have one of the more recent S60 Nokia handsets, go checkout the Nokia…

Carnival of the Mobilists #44

Hey, don't forget this week's Carnival of the Mobilists at the Software Everywhere weblog. David Beers (i.e. Mr. Cervezas) has done a great job compiling the best mobility writing from blogs around the world… enjoy. ceo

AdMob Gets Series A Funding

Awesome… Congrats to the AdMob team, and Mike and Russell on their Round A of funding… very neat… enrique

Om Malik on widgets

I am a widget enthusiast – well designed/focused widgets rock, and will become standard gadgets on desktop as well as mobile. Om recently wrote a piece on widgets for Business 2.0 – see Suddenly everything's coming up widgets… “Breaking down the Web into…

Rita Hayworth as Gilda

I don't watch many (very) old movies, but I've to say… after 60 years, Rita Hayworth, in her 1946 movie Gilda (she was 28 years old then), oh boy, what a gorgeous, sleek woman she was, really – an American actress of Spanish…