Thoughts on AI, architecture, and building systems that work in the real world.

Google's Local App – Is this Mobility 2.0?

Everyone is talking about Google's Local for mobile application. The application is neat indeed, but what I really find interesting is all the extra “shock and awe” because the application comes from Google… I even read today a piece by Matt comparing this…

Consumers — The Real Drivers of Mobility in the Enterprise

The mobility space is pretty much divided into two: 1) business or enterprise users, and 2) consumers, which includes gamers. Many of us used to believe that “the enterprise” would be the driving force behind mobility and wireless. But that is not the…

Google and Yahoo! vs. Java ME Developers and MVNOs

Wow, Yahoo! and Google are launching new smart clients and wireless services. I believe this annoucement to be huge… Google and Yahoo! providing their own Java ME smart clients that leverage their own back-end services directly, and/or offering MVNO-like services – wow. Talk…

My New Toy — Inspiron 9300 Notebook

It was time for me to upgrade my laptop… and based on cost vs. features I opted to go with the Inspiron 9300, a 17-inch widescreen (1900×1200) “desktop replacement” multimedia notebook with integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, CD/DVD writer, 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce video…

New Article: The Wireless Messaging API 2.0 for Java ME

“There is more to WMA 2.0 than just multi-part message support. C. Enrique Ortiz writes about wireless messaging on the Java ME platform using WMA 2.0 (JSR 205). Explore all the details of using WMA including multi-part message handling, connections, sync and async…

Google AdSense or NoSense?

Google ads could be better targeted… that's right… AdSense can sometimes put up some very lame ads. Today it was a great example of this — great traffic yet the number of clicks was basically next to zero — at the time of…

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists

This week's Carnival of the Mobilist is being hosted by Rudy de Waele of m-trends.org. Check it out! ceo

MSA for CLDC Approved – But With Request for Changes

The Micro Edition Executive Committee (EC) has voted to approve the Public Review Draft of Mobile Service Architecture for CLDC (JSR 248), but with good comments requesting making the JSR smaller. The voting was as follows: Voted Yes Did not Vote Abstain IBM…

Macromedia Flash Lite — Pretty Impressive…

You may know that I am a Java ME guy, but I have to say that Macromedia Flash Lite seems like a very awesome, robust platform for mobile applications. Just look at the following features for mobile phones, and decide for yourself: Major…

Putting together the Top 10 replies why your Java ME app doesn't work…

After my post Developer's Top 10 replies when code doesn't work…, it occured to me why don't we now put together the top 10 replies for why Java ME apps stop working or misbehave… I have come up with 7 so far… Post…