As I watch today in celebration of Veterans Day a number of documentaries about WWII, I am reminded about the incredible sacrifices and unbelievable courage by those folks, from the Pacific, to Europe, to the African front… Thank you. Let it be peace.…
I just found this little nugget at the wubbahed.com blog, which is Google’s ZXing project, a new (and still quiet) open source visual tags reader for Android for reading QR Code, DataMatrix and UPC barcodes (and probably others over time). “Google is going…
I am going to make a bold prediction… For years, the word has been that local applications are not the best solution because people won’t take the time to download them — the process is just painful. …and today it is. If you…
Oops… It is hard to believe that something like this would slip through…Wow. Details, details… Never assume (that it runs until tested on the handset), or you will make an ASS of yoU and ME… See Flash Lite 2.0 in the Nokia N95…
Sean Sheedy, a good friend of mine, is running for the Micro Edition Executive Committee at the Java Community Process. Sean is a very passionate individual who has great ideas on representing the developer community. He has been involved in this space for…
Some time ago I read about TextMarks at Russell Beattie’s blog. At that time Russ wrote of personalized SMS cards. While I thought it was an interesting idea, I didn’t give it a whole lot of thought. Russ posted more about TextMarks, then…
Windows Mobile, BREW, Symbian, Web, UIQ, Java FX, S60, Palm OS, MIDP, Pocket PC, BlackBerry, SMS, Widgets, iPhone, and now Android… Gheez… Android, Yet Another Platform? Let’s try to predict… Android, a Linux-based platform for mobile handsets that supports local applications via some…
A very interesting article about the role of the PC diminishing in Japan, in favor of personal gadgets such as mobile devices. The same will happen in the U.S. and other parts of the world. In many parts of the world, cellphones already…
Danah Boyd (apophenia) together with Nicole Ellison, have published the introduction piece of a very interesting paper on social networking — see the announcement at danah’s blog, and also see the introduction to Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Abstract: Social network…
It has been a while since I work on true embedded stuff, which is an area that I enjoyed experimenting with. So it is time to do something fun related to this, while relating such efforts to an area that I’m spending an…
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