Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
My buddy Rudy De Waele (m-trends.org, dotOpen, Mobile 2.0 guru) sent me an email about the upcoming PICNIC 2009 event in Amsterdam. PICNIC is a very cool event and Rudy (dotOpen) is organizing the mobile bits of the event. So any startups that would like to demo at the PICNIC event need to apply as … Read more
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) is organizing a “Startup Business Class” on September 15 of 2009. But … Read more
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 Interactive, in Austin TX, features five days of compelling presentations from the … Read more
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 — business cases and new products requirements and marketing and sales and … Read more
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 access technologies. In addition, low PC penetration makes the small screen (or … Read more
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 Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies diagram. At the end, who cares? Hype … Read more
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 of the eBooks in question was 1984, the classic dystopian novel that … Read more
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… Stop by the Carnival and enjoy! ceo
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 on Google’s (Mr. Vic Gundotra) comment at MobileBeat2009 about mobile apps and … Read more
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 is typically done to easily find related emails (by author or by … Read more