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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 the “ground up”. Its programming model is obviously OO using C++, and … Read more
As we speak RIM is taking its own medicine… And it tastes so bad that it sucks. Not sure if you recall when RIM sued Hanspring and Good, and when RIM sued Glenayre, and who knows who else, for their patent on “method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication … Read more
JSR 253 Mobile Telephony API (MTA) for Java ME Final Draft Specification is out… This is definitely an interesting API, one that I have been waiting for a long time, and yes, it is finally here! Well, almost here. MTA provides common network telephony services for handsets. With this API an application can initiate and … Read more
It just amazes me how companies can be so early to market… hey, it has happened to me a couple of times already… Today I read about how Video-on-demand is to break $10bn barrier on 2010. Wow, 2010… It was 1995 when I was at IBM working on the AIX VideoCharger multimedia streaming server for … Read more
What a beautiful photo of Dione and Saturn in the background… And because Dione was discovered in 1684 by Giovanni Cassini, nothing was more appropriate for taking the picture than the Cassini-Huygens probe… You can read more about Dione and Saturn's other moons at the NASA's Dione Solar System Exploration page. Photo Source: NASA JPL
[Updated on Nov. 28, 2005] The other day News.com ran a story about RIM's CEO, Jim Balsillie, saying that “he is not worried about Microsoft's latest assault into his market space.” My immediate reaction was, uh? Think again… that's not smart, especially if RIM depends so much on MSFT Exchange… Then two days later, News.com … Read more
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Smart Mobs. The Carnival is about the best submitted writing on wireless and mobility, and is hosted at a different mobility website every week. If you’re a blogger, you might want to enter in the future – or even offer to host it one week soon. Enjoy … Read more
So finally we are going to have a Java ME/MIDP platform that offers all the APIs we have been waiting for. And this platform is the Nokia S60, the new brand name for what we have known as the Series 60. Recently published was Nokia's S60 2nd/3rd Edition: Differences In Features v1.2 document which as … Read more
Pretty cool site to create your own warning labels in JPG format…. Hey, I even created my own warning label… :-) ceo
Last night we had a small but good November's Mobile Monday Austin event. The topic was “The role of Smartcards in Mobility”. For speakers we had the pleasure to have Dan Cunningham, president and CEO of Raak Technologies and William Muscato, Marketing Manager at Axalto (used to be Schlumberger). The session was very interactive and … Read more