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About Communicators: From Science Fiction to Reality, and Convergence

Most of us were introduced to communications via science fiction TV programs and movies. Today communicators are part of our daily life. Still, the Sci-Fi definition for communicators tops web searches — if we do a web search for the word “communicator” we…

JTWI (JSR 185) Maintenance Review

For those of you who follow the progress and changes of Java Specifications for Java ME, a new maintenenace release for Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI) Specification (JSR 185) has been published. Changes are very few, and specific to security. ceo

The Carnival of the Mobilists Volume1 Issue10

Welcome to the Carnival! The Carnival of the Mobilists is about mobility and wireless and the blogosphere. Here you will find and learn from mobility bloggers from all around the world – from personal opinions, to topics on the technology, the landscape, marketing,…

Guidelines for Location-based Service (LBS) Developers

We are seeing increased use of location data in mobility solutions such as mobile social software and in employee tracking solutions. And it is important to remind ourselves, the mobility developers, product managers and people in general whom are responsible for the creation…

IDEs – A Tool or an Obstacle

I am too upset to write a detailed entry on this, but all current IDEs suck in one way or another. They try to do too much. They want to be too intelligent. They want to think ahead, but they all have lost…

Google – The Best Thing That Has Happened to Yahoo!

Yahoo! was one of the pioneers in Web Portals and searching – we all know that. But as it happens to many large companies, focus and vision was lost somewhere on the way – call it growing pains, or loss of direction, or…

Carnival of the Mobilists @ Mobile Jones

The Carnival of the Mobilists is about the best submitted writing on wireless and mobility, and this week's Carnival is packed with lots of excellent pieces from great Mobilists. The Carnival is hosted at a different mobility website every week. If you’re a…

Forrester: Find Alternatives to RIM, Avoid Palm OS

For those (business-types) who are dependant on RIM Blackberries, there is a good commentary on News.com by Forrester Research titled RIM on the brink. The commentary covers things such as identify alternative technologies to RIM, and put together a migration plan just in…

Carnival of the Mobilists @ Wap Review

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Wap Review. Topics are: Usability v. Human Factors in Complex Mobile Systems Mobile Marketers – Take your cue from the theatre Ringtones Are Not Mobile Music, and Vice Versa Nokia S60 Platform – A JTWI…

On Symbian OS (and Java ME)

I have been playing with Symbian OS S60 recently. It has been a while since I did. And this exercise has reminded me that the Symbian OS is pretty neat and well thought. Symbian OS is a C++ / Object Oriented OS from…