Earlier this month Amazon not only pulled a number of eBooks from their online catalogs, but also deleted such eBooks from the Kindles of people who had purchased such eBooks. The reason: some kind of publishing/copyright debacle. But ironic it is that one…
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Punchcut‘s idlemode weblog with contributions from Tomi Ahonen, Dennis Bournique, Judy Breck, Tam Hanna, Volker Hirsch, Holly Kolman, Sanjeet Matharu, truly yours C. Enrique Ortiz, Howard Rheingold, and Peggy Anne Salz. Lots of great content……
The Problem: Too many handsets, environments, and differences across platforms The Solution: A single environment/platform for mobile apps There you go, problem solved, no more fragmentation! Google at MobileBeat 2009 Now that the “noise” level has dropped, it is my turn to comment…
With Gmail, Google introduced a couple of peculiar ways to deal with email. One of these is the “search vs. sort” approach to finding emails of interest or finding related emails. Instead of going with the common approach of sorting by column which…
Today is MobileBeat2009. And congrats to my friend Michael Yuan, who was Mobility Researcher and Lead Developer at eZee Inc. (my previous start-up) and who was invited to present his new start-up company Ringful at the MobileBeat2009 event — see 14 finalists picked…
Yes, that’s right, the SXSW 2010 Panel submission closes tonight at midnight CST (July 12, 2009) — submit your entry at the 2010 Panelpicker website. Submit your mobile panel today!!! ceo
On December 2008 I wrote on my blog Browser Swallows OS, where I pondered on the idea of a Web OS. The machine boots up to a totally web-based experience. The application-bar at the bottom of the screen consists of widgets and icons…
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Rudy de Waele at the m-trends blog: Looking back at the many contributions done by so many mobilists till now, this is still what’s it’s all about! The Carnival stays probably the best online…
Feature vs. the Smart-phone. That is the question. There is no straight answer; the lines are blurring too fast. At the end, your definition might be different from mine: Both Feature and Smartphones support voice and data capabilities, including multimedia audio and video,…
When browsing on your mobile, do you call it browsing “the Internet”, “the Web” or browsing “the Mobile Web”? After an interesting discussion at ForumOxford on one vs. many webs, I’m curious (keeping in mind that the majority of the readers of this…