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New Member of the Family

My blog has been very quiet lately, but for good reasons: ceo

Dilbert – Sales Secret Weapon

You gotta love Scott Adams…. Today – “Sales Secret Weapon”… Click on the image to go to Dilbert.com:

Carnival of the Mobilists Vol. 1 Issue 22

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted at Helen Keegan's Musings of a Mobile Marketer. You will find essays on mobile marketing, communities, mobile web 2.0, service and product reviews, and other. Enjoy the Carnival! ceo

Mobile Monday Austin is not SPAM!

Come on Blogger! How can you just disable the Mobile Monday Austin blog?!!! Your automated process suck. MoMo Austin is not a SPAM blog!!! Man, I tell you, this is the exact reason why SLAs should be extended to Web 2.0!!! Crap. It…

Nokia Application Test Criteria

Nokia has published their test criteria for J2ME and Symbian applications… It is good to go over these, and keep them handy. These documents will tell you about allowed content, power consumption, UI, interactions, and other requirements that your application must meet if…

Java ME Recent Activities – MSA, Updates to MIDP 2.1 and Other Specifications

There has been a lot of activity the last couple of months (end of 2005, early 2006) in the Java ME Community, with updates to many specifications (JSR). Many of these updates are happening because JSR 248 Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) is going…

Make Easy Money With Google

If you want to learn about how to make money with Google, go grab a copy of Make Easy Money With Google: Using the Adsense Advertising Program, which is written by my buddy Eric Giguère, mobility expert, and now considered the contextual advertising…

The XMLHttpRequest Object W3C Working Draft

The W3C has published The XMLHttpRequest Object specification working draft… As you may know, the XMLHttpRequest object is at the center of AJAX, and while it is implemented across Web browsers, the implementations are not 100% interoperable, requiring special handling by developers. The…

Mobile TV Study: Content for Mobile Phones Must be Tailored

No surprises here… A Mobile TV study by Red Bee Media concludes the obvious: “full length programming on mobile is not as popular as made for mobile TV because screen sizes are too small, opportunities to watch full length programs on-the-go are rare…

A Response to "Mobile Web 2.0: AJAX for mobile devices as the preferred platform for mobile app development"

In response to comments from various mobility bloggers, including mine, Ajit Jaokar has written part 2 of “Mobile web 2.0: AJAX for mobile devices – why mobile AJAX will replace both J2ME and XHTML as the preferred platform for mobile applications development”. A…