The Carnival of the Mobilists (#247) came up today at mobiThinking with topics that include: Mobile’s role in Japanese disaster; near-field communications; tablets vs. smartphones; operators vs. content providers; making the Web mobile friendly and more. My piece on NFC in 2011 was…
I was with my Finn friends at SXSW when one of the Finns, while looking at his (Android) handset said “Hey there is this event at XYZ happenning now; let’s go there!” To what I said, “Cool, what do you use to know?…
SXSW Interactive is here! Very cool… The panels/sessions are looking great, the parties and the get together… And the weather is perfect. From the various cool panels, to the Monks of Invention, Mobile Future 15, to MobileMonday Austin and many others, hope to…
(This is part of a series of blog posts on Mobility in 2011) The debate of mobile (native) app vs. webapp is not new. This is a decade-old topic that has been debated since the days of WML. Today the debate is pretty…
We are less than a month away from SXSW Interactive; exciting! If you are attending the Festival, don’t forget to stop by the Mobile Future 15 session; more info below… When? Monday, March 14, 3:30-6pm. Topics & Speakers: Mobile Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in…
See my latest article titled DOM-based data storage and retrieval using jQuery. It covers the jQuery data() APIs and HTML5 data-* attributes in your jQuery-powered applications… Summary: The popular, and free (MIT and GPL-licensed), jQuery JavaScript library has a concise and portable set…
(This is part of a series of blog posts on Mobility in 2011) Near-field Communications (NFC), the very short-range secure communications channel that will enable for a new breed of application interactions, is making a comeback. The year 2011 is, finally, the year…
A reminder that our next Android Dev Austin meeting is this Thursday Feb 17 at 6pm, at the T-Mobile offices. Sponsored by T-Mobile, we will have an overview of T-Mobile’s integration of WiFi calling into Android devices followed by open format with local…
While a radical change in strategy was expected, it is not aggressive enough. On my previous post here titled Mobility 2011: Nokia, I shared some thoughts on what Nokia should be doing; some implemented on this new strategy (such as transitioning out of…
A quick heads up that our next Android Dev Austin (@androiddevaus) meeting is on Feb 17 at 6pm, at the T-Mobile offices. Sponsored by T-Mobile, we will have an overview of T-Mobile’s Android strategy followed by open format with local Android developers who…
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