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The day after I gave my presentation on NFC and Information Ubiquity, I found a good summary of NFC today around the world (ZD Net), that covers NFC deployments in Australia, Asia, and Europe. Most often that sort of data transfer takes the form of payment — but applications are already going beyond that to … Read more
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 Triggers and Use-cases Background on NFC NFC Code Example, and Pointers The … Read more
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 frustrating for the Jaiku team. Getting acquired could be both the best … Read more
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
Wow, two huge acquisitions, same day: Sun aqcuires MySQL Oracle aquires BEA ceo
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 one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at … Read more
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 be a MEDD attendee to participate at BarCampME. For more information see … Read more
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! This has reached the point of absurdity. I bet there is misinformation … Read more
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 to dictate what phones will get made, how much they will cost, … Read more
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 Code or bar code 125 41.7% Send a blank email and access … Read more