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NFC IN MOBILE COMMERCE and Information Ubiquity – Use Cases, Technologies, APIs (MEDD)

The Presentation slides are complete, the bags are packed, and I am ready to go to MEDD. Also see Come join us at BarCampME, January 23rd, Santa Clara, CA. The slides look very good (not that I’m biased) and cover: Information Ubiquity Application…

Jaiku:blast from the past

I remember James posting on Jaiku some time ago “Jaiku, blast from the past”… referring to how long it takes Jaiku to aggregate stuff; some times displaying items that are 2 days old already; amazingly slow, and getting worst. This must be very…

Mobile and Embedded opposites

Microsoft cancels its annual conference for mobile and embedded developers… …and Sun will have its first Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Conference. And don’t forget about the BarCampME. ceo

One day, two huge acquisitions…

Wow, two huge acquisitions, same day: Sun aqcuires MySQL Oracle aquires BEA ceo

Jobs on good products, bad products, people, Kindle, and why it is going to fail

Steve Jobs comments on Amazon’s Kindle (from NY Times The Passion of Steve Jobs): “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read…

Come join us at BarCampME, January 23rd, Santa Clara, CA

Come join us! It should be fun… BarCampME is scheduled for 8:30 PM Wednesday January 23rd until 8:30 AM Wednesday January 24th, during the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days (MEDD) conference! BarCampME bridges the two days of the conference. You don’t have to…

Russell Buckley on The Frustrations of Java ME

This has become a yearly tradition, see The Frustrations of Java ME… Russell wrote: According to a Greg Ballard of mobile games maker, Glu, in a recent interview in Mobile Entertainment, their Transformers game needed no less than 25,000 SKUs (or variants). 25,000!…

Wired Magazine on the story of the iPhone

Below are a couple of citations from the article The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry (Wired Magazine); a very good article indeed: “For decades, wireless carriers have treated manufacturers like serfs, using access to their networks as leverage…

Use of URLs, QR Codes, OCT, Bookmarks Internet, and other in mobile Japan

A small but interesting survey of 300 mobile phone users in Japan (via What Japan Thinks) has shown the results below, but could this be representative of the expected behavior on other parts of the world?   Votes Percentage From a scanned QR…

The problem with Device-Information Repositories

The main issues or concerns with device repositories are 1) the time and resources required for maintaining the repository accurate and useful over time, and 2) fragmentation (a favorite topic in mobility). When developing a product, you either marry to a specific solution,…