Cost of Ownership and Walled-Gardens… not a good thing. I previously wrote about how Cost of Ownership (COO) is a stumbling block for the mass adoption of advanced handset services (services beyond text messaging). Combine COO with a closed (walled garden) offering, and…
This week's Carnival is at Xen Dolev's Xellular Identity. Lot's of topics. Great compilation of entries by Xen… This week also is the Gathering Of The Mobilists @ 3GSM – boy, I wish I could be there with the rest of the gang!…
I love widgets… they are fun, useful, and when designed properly, very good at what they do, at their specific function. While I personally run Konfabulator, today Yahoo! Widget Engine, I just learned about Opera Widgets… And there are widgets on the Mac,…
The Digital Convergence Initiative Mobile Content Festival is an experiment in film, gaming and application development for mobile devices. Austin, Texas, March 14th, 2006. The DCI is looking to address the current influence of mobile devices on our culture. Mobile devices have had…
This week's Carnival is at the Mobile Enterprise Weblog. The Carnival is in its fourteenth week, and this week's topics include: The Gathering of the Mobilists Industry Trends Mobility & Web 2.0 User Behavior Mobile Applications Enjoy the Carnival!
What is keeping users from really taking advantage of the handset's and the network's full potential? What is preventing mass adoption of handsets and related services? It is not the technology… It is not the users… It is not the developers… It is…
M:Metrics reports that in the battle of portals in the Mobile Domain, YAHOO! HAS EARLY LEAD… OK, it is very early, early, but today, Yahoo! is the winner… The report also contains other good information/metrics, includng metrics that shows that messaging is still…
This week's Carnival is at Blethers.com. This week's Carnival is packed with great entries, and is definitely growing in size… So join the carnival… The Carnival of the Mobilists is about the best submitted writing on wireless and mobility. The Carnival is hosted…
Back in the early and mid 1990s, when I was a young developer, Steve McConnell published some great books: Rapid Development, and Code Complete, both excellent references on writing good, solid code and best practices — these were and still are books that…
One of my recent posts was about a Poll I am doing on my website… Anyhow, the poll is done via an external provider – it is pretty neat, I like it very much, but when the service goes down, as it did…
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