Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
While texting – communicating with text messaging, is great, the act of texting itself (typing) I hate – texting is a pain in the thumb. T9 and similar technologies never worked to my satisfaction… This is why I rather use (and own) handsets with a keyboard – today I own a Treo 650 and a … Read more
Tom Landspurg wrote a good piece, his perspective on Flash Lite, check it out – Another Flash from J2me developer perspective (Part1) From the Flash Lite website: What Is Flash Lite? Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically developed for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Flash Lite dramatically accelerates the delivery of rich content … Read more
“Explore CLDC and the Profiles defined for use with the Connected Limited Device Configuration. Enrique Ortiz writes about the most common Java ME execution environment.” » Read Summary of CLDC-Based Profiles ceo
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Rudy at his m-trends.org weblog… Great set of submitted articles covering a wide spectrum of mobility – go check it out. And good job by Rudy this week. Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. … Read more
From Nokia to stop making CDMA phones: “The Finnish company said on Thursday it would pull out of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phone manufacturing, which it sees as a shrinking market in the longer term.” “CDMA is the less popular wireless telephony technology, used by 25 to 30 percent of mobile subscribers, and competes … Read more
Not sure if it is a typo or if it is for real, but Dennis Crouch of Patently-O: Patent Law Blog reports of a case where the PTO gave an estimate for a recently filed application, that it will be examined within fourteen (14) years of the filing date. Wow… I better submit now! You … Read more
The Mobile Context is comprised of many elements that distinguishes it from the desktop context. Some of these elements are time, space, the mobile perimeter, the social and personal aspects, and other, and how these define and effect the mobile usage and/or behavior – I will cover more of this at another time. But one … Read more
New set of buzzwords… “Enterprise Mashup” (Mashups as a Service) SOA 2.0 Web-Oriented Architecture Bottom line… It is about Web 2.0 in the Enterprise. ceo
Above is a (Google) trend graph for SMS, MMS, IM and e-mail… If we look at the MMS trend chart we will see that MMS activity has remained very flat over time, an indication of the level of interest, with much lower activity when compared to SMS, IM and e-mail. This is of no surprise. … Read more
I keep reading in the blogosphere that coding in Java ME (J2ME) is a pain… And I've a theory why some developers complain about it… Developers who have come from the embedded and/or low-level software development side of computing find Java ME development not as bad, because of the development environments they have been exposed … Read more