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There is a piece by Ina Fried at Silicon.com, where Palm's CEO Ed Colligan says “We won't desert Palm OS”… And my answer to him is — while I may not speak for all developers, and I don't want to sound rude, I certainly don't care any more… Palm management has dropped the ball so … Read more
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 application to “AJAX”! Come on, it is a smart client, not a … Read more
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 case. Consumers have been the driving force behind wireless mobility. I learned … Read more
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 about competition now, and trying to beat that! And what is the … Read more
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 card, Pentium M 750 1.86GHz/533MHz FSB, 512MB DDR2/533MHz, and other good features … Read more
“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 reception and the MIDP 2.0 security framework.” See Wireless Messaging API 2.0.
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 writing I had “Page Impressions = 11,656” and number of “Clicks … Read more
This week's Carnival of the Mobilist is being hosted by Rudy de Waele of m-trends.org. Check it out! ceo
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 Intel Corp. Motorola Nokia Mobile Phones Orange France SA Research In Motion … Read more
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 features of Flash Lite 1.1: HTTP-based data connectivity SVG support (playback only) … Read more