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Sun to say adiós to mobile-specific Java

Some updates; below are responses or reactions to the c/net article from some Sun folks: Terrence Barr, evangelist at Sun, wrote his reactions to the c/net article; see Adieu Java ME? James Goslin, one of the fathers of Java, also wrote his reactions;…

The New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission

I’m not sure that many folks know about the New Horizons probe, which is in route to the Pluto-Kuiper Belt, in the outer solar system (this is beyond the orbit of planet Neptune). The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in January of 2006,…

S60 Touch-based User Interface

One of the things I’ve been wanting/waiting for in S60 is the touch capability; I am keyboard + touch screen kind of user. But that is about to change. At the Symbian Smartphone Show, Nokia announced (and showed) support for touch interfaces. It…

My “NFC in Mobile Commerce” Slides

I recently presented at the Texas Wireless Summit, a session called NFC in Mobile Commerce; see the slides (PDF). The summit was very good, with a great set of speakers. BTW, I didn’t win the award for which I was nominated for the…

Webwag annouces a seed funding with a leading mobile operator

I want to congratulate my friend Thomas Landspurg and his team at Webwag, who secured seed funding with the investment fund of the leading mobile operator SFR and the venture capital firm DigiTalents Capital. That is so awesome. See the announcement. Thomas is…

Got nominated for the Tech Innovation Awards (Austin)

So I got nominated for another award, the Tech Innovation Awards. Awesome. Thanks. If you get a minute, check the above link, and perhaps vote for my company for this award… you can read all 4 pages of the QA if you want…

Mobile Portals

From Mike Rowehl’s blog: “(A list or directory of Mobile Portals) is something that was mentioned at Mobile 2.0 a few times as well: there should be a mobile portal of the same form as the early Yahoo directory when it was still…

Article in WIRED: Inside The Matrix for Mobiles (and my contribution to it)

In the past I’ve written that DeviceAnywhere Rocks. A couple of days ago Rob Beschizza of Wired Magazine called me to asked me about my experiences with the tool, for a Wired article he was writing. See the article Inside The Matrix for…

Third Party Applications on the iPhone — yes!

Just saw this about Third Party Applications on the iPhone. Yes, yes… I knew it…. it was a matter of time. (Via Jyri’s Jaiku) ceo

No mention of Windows Mobile @ Mobile 2.0 Event; it is not about the OS, and other things

In this blog Rob Tiffany’s of Windows Mobile Accelerator blog wrote his summary about the Mobile 2.0 event. And he wrote something interesting: The words “Microsoft” and “Windows Mobile” were never uttered at this conference which I find strange based on the tens…