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This week is 2008 Texas Wireless Summit ==> $200 Discount for Friends of MobileMonday

This week is the 2008 Texas Wireless Summit. OCTOBER 14-16, 2008 AUSTIN, TEXAS USA www.twsummit.com Friends of MobileMonday get $200 discount. REGISTER NOW at http://www.twsummit.com/register/ to attend and use discount code TWS08200D to get the $200 discount. Speakers include: Michael Bayle, Senior Director,…

Richard Garriot: Austinite, Game Designer, 2nd-Generation Space Traveler

Richard Garriot, a big name in Austin tech and gaming community, and gaming industry worldwide, founder of Origin Systems and other gaming companies, and creator of titles such as Ultima Online and many others, British citizen by birth, who is son of Owen…

Video of the successful SpaceX Falcon 1 Launch #4

Pretty awesome video of SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket Launch #4. As I understand it, SpaceX is the first private company (non-government involvement), to reach true orbital flight. Listen to the team cheering in the background as each major phase of the launch occurs……

Carnival of the Mobilists No. 144

Visit Xen’s Xellular Identity blog for this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #144. Great set of posts from the mobile blogosphere. Thanks to Xen for including my piece of Mobile Context, Interactions and Data. Good to see Xen, who has been very busy…

Google Apps on Android

Google Apps for Android, which includes YouTube, Search w/ suggestions, Mail, Calendar, Maps, Contacts and Talk, all seem very well implemented and very well integrated with the web and their corresponding web-based applications: The Android platform is looking good… ceo

Texas Wireless Summit 14-16 October 2008 – Register now and get $200 off

The Texas Wireless Summit, organized by the Austin Wireless Alliance is in two weeks, October 14-16, 2008. You can register at http://www.twsummit.com/register/ to attend and interact with industry leaders and learn about the future of the wireless industry. As a special offer to…

Skyfire Public Beta now available

The Skyfire mobile browser is now available in public beta. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should; the browser is pretty neat, is fast, and works great. Currently, the Skyfire browser is only supported in the US on Windows Mobile (5 or…

Mobility, Context, Interactions and Data @ Design4Mobile

Below is my presentation at Design4Mobile. Mobility, Context, Interactions and Data View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: data ortiz) The Design4Mobile mini-conference has been packed with great presentations and people; researchers, designers and implementers from around the world, all with great…

On Mobile Browser-Based Applications

Dennis Bournique of WapReview wrote a nice piece on Mobile Web applications, where he ponders on the topic after attending both Mobile Web Megatrends and the CTIA Mobile Jam Session. I agree with most of Dennis’ points. But in the article Dennis mentions…

Encrypted SMS

A number of companies have been applying their encryption technology to SMS. One of these companies is Masabi; see Encrypted SMS As a Backup for Mobile Data Applications (Cellular-news). Is SMS encryption a must have? Do you think users care? Personally, I don’t…