A quick announcement about two great resources that are available to Central Texas entrepreneurs who are starting or who had started a business (a start-up) and need some help or direction. First my friend Hall Martin who runs the Austin Entrepreneur Network (http://austinentrepreneurnetwork.org)…
It is once again that time of the year; it is time to vote for next year’s SXSW (2010) panel sessions! To vote, go to the SXSW 2010 Panel Picker. ==> Note that voting closes September 4th! An incubator of cutting-edge technologies, SXSW…
First and foremost, my apologies to all the readers of my blog, as I haven’t been able to write much at all lately… I’ve been so busy at work, literally ->0 time to write/blog. (well, I’ve been busy writing other kinds of stuff…
From: Ovum’s report on Operator strategies for mobile broadband in emerging markets (August 7, 2009) Mobile broadband in emerging markets is a very different proposition to that seen in mature markets. Low fixed-line penetration means that there are opportunities for a myriad of…
On ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez writes Prepare Yourselves: Augmented Reality Hype on the Rise. You know, I really like the RWW, but this particular article was pure complaining about the “Hype” with respect to Augmentated Reality (AR) to the point of bringing up the…
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…
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