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A management team might work with a s/w development team directly, with daily involvement. Or, the management team can treat the s/w development team as a black box, where (business) requirements come in and (magically) functional software comes out and is deployed. Many believe on the latter, but fail at the attempt. Unfortunately, the latter … Read more
The tradition continues…This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Mobile Active – cellphones for civic engagement. There you will find the best mobility bloggers, from Darla and Xen, to Martin, Justin, David, Russell, Deniss, Scott and others…. Check it out. ceo
By now you probably know that the International Astronomical Union came out with some guidelines for what is considered a planet. This effort to reclassify planets started when UB 313 (Xena) and its moon where discovered in 2003. I've mixed feelings about the whole thing… Pluto should remain a planet… it is large enough to … Read more
This month of August 2006, Mobile Monday Austin turns 1 year old… In this past year we had a great set of topics and presenters, best of the best, from Nokia and Opera Software and M:Metrics, to local startups such as Raak Technologies and Bones in Motion and others, and individuals such as Michael Yuan … Read more
Cool. I just read at the Carnival of the Mobilists and MobHappy weblogs, that Russell and Carlo have put together a Free Mobile RSS Reader Loaded with 14 Essential Mobile Blogs. Pretty neat. I'm honored to be included: > C. Enrique Ortiz > Darla Mack > Golden Swamp > M-Trends > MobHappy > Mobile Enterprise … Read more
I haven't expressed much about how I feel about .mobi – months ago I wrote a piece about it, but never finished editing it… Today Carlo wrote a very good piece on .mobi, which I am going to piggyback… .mobi is not needed. There is no technical reason for it, and there is no user … Read more
A very useful Nokia handset comparison page…
The Sony Ericsson P990i PDA phone – what a neat handset: UMTS, Symbian OS 9.1 underneath, MIDP 2.0, double camera for video calls, touchscreen, and a keyboard, Bluetooth, 802.11b, and many other features. I really would like to own one. But there is a problem with the SE 990i — it's price! With a price … Read more
Don't forget this week's Carnival of the Mobilists – this week at MOPocket. Good set of entries, a good read… A great mobility weblog. ceo
Do you like to use Code Generators? Below are the results for the poll: …with the majority of the respondents indicating they like using code generators as a starting point (35%). Then comes the developers who rather (completely) write their software vs. using (or not like using) an automation tool (25%). The rest of the … Read more