Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
For those attending Mobile World Congress 2009: I would love to meet my (virtual) friends, followers and people who I follow, From work perspective, if your company has or will have “end-to-end digital management” needs anywhere in the world from activation to support to management for mobile handsets and 3G-and-4G nomadic devices, I would love … Read more
When I started eZee inc, one of my proudest accomplishments was the great R&D/development team I had. And one of the members of that team was Michael Yuan. Enter Ringful… Since then, Michael went on and started Ringful, a mobile mashup company for voice and mobile messaging applications. Ringful is the creator of apps such … Read more
Austinites – The “Mobile Peer Awards” is to happen at Barcelona during Mobile World Congress (MWC). There are great mobile startups in Austin. It would be great if you register your startup, even if you will not attend MWC. I can do the registration for you if you cant; email me. We need Austin representation! … Read more
Update: (May-2-09) Since I wrote this piece, it seems that the Palm OS folks have changed their minds, recognizing that ignoring the current customer-base was a mistake. The Palm Pre will come with a PalmOS Emulator that will “let the phone UI look and act like the Garnet OS, and even has virtual, on screen … Read more
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (#156) is at Dennis Bournique’s The WAP Review blog. This week the Carnival topics include mobile predictions for 2009, on software and services, design and user experience, mobile marketing and strategy and related events — check it out. ceo
I just noticed that this year’s Design For Mobile conference, organized by the folks from Little Springs Design, is scheduled for April 20-22, 2009. I attended last year’s event and it was a good event with attendees and presenters from both academia and industry-practitioners. See the Design For Mobile website. ceo
I’ve updated my diagram on non-messaging Mobile Applications: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Applications (click to enlarge): I will be using this diagram on an upcoming article that I’ve been cooking for a while. ceo
I just updated to WordPress 2.7 (from 2.5.1). Hooray… It was about time. The new Dashboard is very nice…
Microsoft has joined the physical world connection/interactions space with its release of their High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) called Microsoft Tag, a new 2D Barcode technology developed by Microsoft research that competes with QR Code, Datamatrix and other 2D barcode technologies. Comparing Microsoft Tag to QR Code: Microsoft Tag uses colors and triangles vs. black … Read more
Don’t forget this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, number 155 and the first one of 2009, at Helen Keegan’s weblog Musings of a Mobile Marketer. This edition is packed with great essays, a must read! Thanks to Helen for including my entry… Happy New Year! ceo