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What began as a colorful Internet fluke has blossomed into a full-fledged political movement – one that Republicans and Democrats alike are reluctantly having to acknowledge. See The C. Enrique Ortiz Phenomenon: ;-) ceo (P.S. Thanks to my brother Carlos)
Some videos of the RoboCup Japan Open 2008 competition this past May (via Robot Dreams): Various Competitions: Robot Sprints: Robot Fights:
Have you heard about Bondi? It is OMTP‘s initiative to extend the mobile browser to provide AJAX-like capabilities and access to local functionality on the handset. From the OMTP website: The OMTP BONDI initiative is addressing the problem that an application written for one phone must be rewritten again and again if it is to … Read more
A great summary of Public Resources about Mobile OSGi (courtesy of Jo Ritter, Mobile OSGi Blog). ceo
The GSMA Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative is alive and moving forward w.r.t. NFC standardization, in this case, w.r.t. secure elements for NFC applications. Developed by the 45 operators globally supporting the GSMA’s Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative, the requirements will help handset manufacturers to develop NFC-enabled phones that are compatible with operators’ planned NFC services. : The requirements build on … Read more
Read more at Roger Brinkley’s Blog — Mobile & Embedded Community Governance Board Nominations Open. ceo
Mike Rowehl has joined Skyfire, the mobile browser company… I got to see Skyfire in action earlier this year when Raj Singh showed it to me at a MobileMonday Austin event; I was impressed with it, and even blogged about it — see the Skyfire Mobile Browse. MikeR has joined as Scalability Architect, a very … Read more
Wow… OPWV is selling it’s mobile browser and messaging business… Do you remember when OPWV was all the rave? Do you remember Phone.com and the Phone.com conference? Man, those were cool days. The early days, (late 1990s and early 2000s) when Mobile Web really got started; HDML, HTML, WAP, cHTML, the WAP gateway security gap. … Read more
One of our roles as computer scientists, technologists and enthusiasts, is to help educate the next generation of computer scientists, technologists and enthusiasts. Reading today that Fewer students pursue computer-related degrees really concerns me — it is a no brainer that today and the future, computing will be at the center of economics, communication, science, … Read more
See my latest article — an introduction to the NFC API for Java… Near-field Communication (NFC) is characterized as a very short-range radio communication technology with a lot of potential, especially when applied to mobile handsets. Imagine yourself using your cellphone to interact with posters, magazines, and even with products while at the store, and … Read more