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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 disconnected databases. He introduced AtomDB which in my opinion has great potential … Read more
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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. Related to this see Apple Store – 10 million downloads in just … Read more
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 patents on computer implemented inventions is whether a general purpose computer qualifies … Read more
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 web. When having such dependencies, you need to take the time to … Read more
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, words, and whatnot. Then took that one concept and applied for 12 … Read more
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 to see that happening, it must begin today. It is not until … Read more
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 significant benefit for future iPhone sales. William Volk wrote at ForxumOfxord the … Read more
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, planned to be completed before the end of fiscal year 2010. The … Read more
A reminder that next Monday July 14th is our next Austin MobileMonday session. A very interesting topic, come see Nikunj Mehta, tech lead for Oracle’s AtomDB project, talk about an emergent approach to mobile applications and browser-embedded databases, involving the use of the Atom publishing protocol for application programming as well as data synchronization, and … Read more