It is said that dogs are man’s best friend… And after 15 years, I’ve lost mine… Bubbles was his name. Always happy, always on-guard, obedient, playful and friendly, always waiting and wanting to be with one. Today we’ve lost him, and will miss…
A very nice slide-deck by Rudy de Waele (@mtrends) — love it. I totally agree with this vision, which is one that has great potential, and is one that I’ve been passionately promoting for some time now: “The mobile handset is, by its…
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #172 is at MobileStance.com and is packed with great essays from bloggers from around the world. A must read. Thanks to Jamie Well who selected my blog entry as the post of the week! If monetization of…
I’ve been keeping track of a very interesting thread at Forum Oxford (FOROX) on the topic of Android phone dissapointing developers (w.r.t. iPhone), with Jason Delport, Alex Kerr, William Volk (who started the thread) and others adding their different perspectives on the matter.…
Great map by MobileMonday Estonia: View MoMo Chapters in a larger map It is great to see how many chapters we have now / how much the MobileMonday community has grown over the last years… The Austin chapter was founded on May 10…
A great writeup by Mike Rowehl, Please Don’t Mistake My Apathy For A Lack of Understanding, in response to VentureBeat’s piece iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers. Mike, who is a very experienced mobile developer and technologist in general, writes about his…
For the first time ever, pictures of a massive star (50-100 times more massive than our own Sun) exploding and becoming a black hole (Science Daily). Supernova SN 2005gl: explosion from start to finish, including the black hole ending This is so impressive…
As (mobile) technologists we must be aware of and recognize the potential for harm when obvious/weak-patents are granted by the Patent Office. We should be able to trust the patent system, but the system is weak. In particular I am here writing about…
I’ve been very busy lately to post this, but wanted to acknowledge all of our sponsors and speakers at our last (March) MobileMonday Austin event, specially the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. It was a great meeting with great speakers. SXSWi was a blast…
I’m sure that by now you have heard the rumors about IBM potentially buying Sun. Even yesterday Intel CEO says Sun was shopped around (cnet news). Why is this a significant announcement? And why I think Intel’s CEO is wrong (when he said…
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