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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…

Article – Understanding the Web Services Subset API for Java ME

It has been a while since I posted to my blog — I have been extremely busy… I have a couple of good pieces coming, but in the meantime, there is an article of mine that was recently published in the Sun Java…

Same Book 8 Times, One Concept 12 Patents…

… The other day, while reading Guy Kawasaki's weblog, I laughed when he wrote that “he was the author of 8 books, or, the same book 8 times…”. Having been an author myself, I thought that was pretty funny. Just for the record,…

Mobility Poll: What Mobility Space Are You Targeting?

What kind of mobile application are you creating? I have posted a new mobility poll to understand the distribution of mobile applications being created. You can find the poll at the top of my Mobility Resources page. Also, the current mobility poll can…

Carnival of the Mobilists No. 19

Wow, this week we got lots of entries – that's great. By the end of the year we will need to hire someone to handle the volume! Let's begin with Daniel Taylor (The Mobile Enterprise Weblog). In his entry, Blurring the lines between…

Google Should Rethink Their Content Transformation Approach

On his website, MobHappy, Russell Buckely wrote here and here about Google changing the way content is displayed on people’s phones, without permission. Below is a modified, expanded version of the comment that I left at MobHappy, in response to Russell's blog entry:…

Good March Mobile Monday Austin

We had a great Mobile Monday in Austin last night… Thanks to all the speakers. It was good to see all the different perspectives to LBS from our speakers: David from M:Metrics who covered stats/metrics Jon from Bones from Motion who covered LBS…

isolatr – The Antisocial Network

isolatr is a Yahoo! company… And it is hilarious… A product that was built out of necessity? Maybe. And I love Xeni's quote on their main web page… pretty raw, but it cracks me up! Oh, and don't forget about their IMolatr –…

Carnival of the Mobilists @ The Mobile Technology Page

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Martin's Mobile Technology Page. Great selection of entries: Host Martin Sauters, Mobile Technology Page, Wireless VoIP Demystified – Part 2: SIP Carlo Longino, MobHappy, Selling Dollars for a Dime Jim Downing, Smartmobs, The Phone is…