The Carnival of the Mobilists #133 is at VisionMobile (Andreas Constantinou’s weblog). VisionMobile is one of the top mobility blogs in the global blogosphere; a must read. This week’s edition of the Carnival comes with mobile technology essays by Justin Oberman, Ian Wood,…
At our last MobileMonday Austin event we had the pleasure of having as guest speaker Nikunj Mehta, team leader of the Atom DB project at Oracle. It really was a great technical presentation by Nikunj, where he discussed mobile web applications, synchronization and…
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Not bad… From Apple Says 25 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded (CNN): Apple Inc. (AAPL) said iPhone owners has downloaded 25 million copies of software programs for the phone in about 11 days, which it sees as a significant benefit for future iPhone sales.…
This is big. This very much could mean the end of software patents… See the article The Death of Google’s Patents (Patent Law Blog). From the Patent Law Blog article: If the PTO’s test is followed, the crucial question for the vitality of…
A lot of noise recently, triggered by the recent S3 Outage, on the fragility of Web Services… And guess what? This is (and will continue to be) a recurring and expected theme on the highly interdependent world of Mashups and services on the…
Back in March of 2006 I wrote about Neomedia’s patent claims related to computer systems that rely on scanned inputs — they claimed that they owned the IP for all technologies and computer systems that perform processing based on scanning barcodes, 2D codes,…
Another report that claims big numbers; this time by Juniper Research — see NFC Mobile Payments to Reach US$75 Billion by 2013 (via Payment News). 2013, or five years from today, seems about right for the NFC sweet spot (or start of). But…
Update Jul-22: Apple Says 25 Million IPhone Apps Downloaded (in 11 days). Wow… SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) said iPhone owners has downloaded 25 million copies of software programs for the phone in about 11 days, which it sees as a…
NASA has published the remaining shuttle flights manifest. Ten more space shuttle missions before the fleet is decommissioned; that’s it: The manifest includes one flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, seven assembly flights to the International Space Station, and two station contingency flights,…
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