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Reminder — MobileMonday Austin Event | next Monday Dec 7 ’09 | Great Agenda!

A quick reminder of next MobileMonday Austin event, next Monday Dec 7 ’09. We have a great agenda! Hope to see you there! When: December 7, 2009, 5:30 – 8:00pm Topic: Central Texas Technology Incubators, Funding Sources and Mobile Apps Demo Night Agenda:…

Carnival of the Mobilists #202 at the Mobile Strategy blog

In its 202th edition, the Carnival of the Mobilists continue strong. This week’s Carnival is hosted at the Mobile Strategy weblog where you will find a number of interesting blog entries from MOpocket, WIP Jam, MSearchGroovem, Mobile Manifesto and About Mobility weblogs. Also…

Will RIM go the Android Way?

Will RIM adopt Android? A very interesting thought indeed. But why or not would RIM do such a thing? Some thoughts below: Why this would be unlikely? “Not built here” mentality — this is probably the biggest hurdle for them. There will be…

MobileMonday Austin Event – December 7 ’09 – Technology Incubators, Funding Sources and Demos

Mark your calendars! The next MobileMonday Austin event is scheduled for December 7, 2009, 5:30-8pm. For this event we will have a number of Central Texas Technology Incubators come in and talk about what and how they help local mobile developers and start-ups.…

OMTP BONDI 1.1 Candidate Release — Open to public for review/feedback

BONDI 1.1 is now in Candidate Release and it is open to public for feedback. Note that this phase will close on the 2nd of December so you’ll need to get your comments in before then. See OMTP and BONDI at the betavine…

Near-Field (Proximity) Communication in late 2009

It almost is the end of 2009. And where does near-field proximity communication-based applications stand? From mobile marketing, to customer loyalty, payments and authentication, to information exchange, transportation and health-care. Well, it still stands very far from its full potential. Due to its…

Will the iPhone trigger the Mobile RFID/NFC revolution?

Will history repeat itself? There was/is the 12 keys keypad cellphone. And few care about Touch. Then came the iPhone. Now everyone loves Touch. There was the operator Deck. Everyone hated the Deck. Then came Apple. And created the App Store. Now everyone…

On-bill App Store Purchases – finally, an operator leveraging their own infrastructure in new ways, on the new era of app stores

Operators have so much infrastructure already in place and it has taken them so many years to take advantage of it in news ways — to leverage such infrastructure for their own benefit and the benefit of the ecosystem, by repackaging and offering…

Navigation (and maps) the killer app for LBS and Google Maps Nav potential to disrupt the whole Nav systems market

      Yes, navigation and maps is the killer app for LBS. Now it seems that Google Map with support for navigation has the potential to disrupt the whole Nav systems market. And if Google decides to make this new app available…

Motorola announces DROID, the world’s first smartphone powered by Android 2.0

Today I received this from the Motorola marketing folks, here for your reading pleasure: Motorola today announced DROID, the first device powered by Android 2.0 and features the brainpower and breakneck speed of a modern smartphone. DROID is designed to outperform where other…