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STS-121 Discovery Blast Off!

STS-121 has cleared the launch-pad, and the mission has begun. A perfect blast-off, on a perfect Fourth of July – this is the first Space Shuttle launch on Independence Day, in the history of the program… If you like to follow the STS-121…

W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the advancement of the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Of great importance is that these are the guidelines that are going to be used to enforce .mobi mobile website's behavior. From the W3C…

Using NetBeans 5.0

Download NetBeans 5.0 For many, IDEs are a religious topic. For me it is about ROI – the best bang for the buck. I've tried many Java IDEs – today I use NetBeans. I've seen NetBeans grow to what it is today –…

STS-121 Discovery web page and other info

Today's launch attempt was scrubbed (for the second time) due to weather – 3rd attempt will occur on July 4 – great day to have a launch! Update: We are a go for launch, today July 4th! If you like to follow the…

Carnival of the Mobilist – Pick the Best Post For June

The poll for the Carnival's best post for June is up… My entry, “The Mobile Perimeter” is running – if you liked it, feel free to vote for me! :-) ceo

Carnival of the Mobilists 34 at W2F

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Jan Kuczynski at the Wireless World Forum – go check it out. Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click on Carnival of…

Elements of Social Networks Software

On his blog, Tristan Louis wrote 5 reasons why social networks can succeed. But what Tristan has described is much more than 5 reasons to succeed – he described the true essence of social networks software: Viral Nature Provides an Online Identity Enhances…

Intel selling its phone-chip unit to Marvell is a big deal – think XScale

It is all over the news: Intel sells phone-chip unit to Marvell for $600 million… Buckley of MobHappy wrote on his blog about how this decision may signify the beginning of the death of Intel. While I don't think it will be the…

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,…

Soccer Hurts

Like the 1975 Nazareth song, Love hurts… but this time is about soccer… Soccer hurts, Soccer scars, Soccer wounds, and marks… If you follow soccer, and play soccer, you know how physical the game could be… And last week was my turn –…