Thoughts on systems, engineering, technology, and life.

Seth: Architecture or Design

I like Seth’s brief yet meaningful essay on architecture, see Is architect a verb? So I reserve “architect” to describe the intentional arrangement of design elements to get a certain result. : Architecture, for me anyway, involves intention, game theory, systems thinking and…

Developers, start your engines – Nokia commits another $150M to mobile investment

$150MM for startups that create new and exciting mobile applications, that uses context, location, payments, advertising, music and entertainment… very neat… See Nokia to Invest an Additional USD 150 Million Through Nokia Growth Partners. ceo

Announcing MobileWidget Camp Austin – Sept 7th

The MobileWidget Camp Austin planning is under way. It is going to be a very cool event. We are having unstructured and structured sessions, labs, and a contest at the end of the day for the best Widget. We are having food and…

A true, global Bluetooth Big Brother case

The B for Bluetooth can easily stand for “Big Brother”… Via Guardian (UK), a report on a study being done without people’s knowledge that uses Bluetooth to keep track of people’s aggregate behavior, see Bluetooth is watching: secret study gives Bath a flavour…

Carnival of the Mobilists #134 at Mopocket

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #134 is at Justin Oberman’s weblog Mopocket. This week edition comes with essays by newcomers Shaun Zelbers and Ari Zoldan, as well as regulars including as Martin Sauter, Steven Hoober, Ajit Joakar, Andreas Constantinou, and others… Thanks…

Data Messenger and Secure Mobile Forms (Media Sourcery)

There is a new application for anyone who must store and/or transmit sensitive data to/from their cellphones. Good examples are hospitals or hospice businesses (HIPAA), lawyers on the field (client data), and as recently learned, even the government users of BlackBerry devices —…

About Carlos (Rafael) Ortiz Longo

A little bit about my middle (older) brother — see List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors (Wikipedia). …he is the brain in the family ;-) (yes, the manned space program is in our blood) ceo

W3C — New Work Started on Mobile Web Application Guidelines

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today has published its best practices and standards for open mobile Web and Web application development. The goal is to help mobile content developers deal with the challenges of designing Web content for a variety of mobile…

The Web Science

I was quite fascinated by a recent article in the Communications of the ACM written by Web luminaries James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Daniel Weitzner titled Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web (Communications of the ACM).…

SMS 5 years outlook: SMS is King

A quick note of another study, this time by ABI Research, that mobile messaging (SMS) is and will continue to be the top use, after voice, for cellphones — see SMS to Garner 83% of All Mobile Messaging Revenues through 2013 (ABI Research).…