Learn a new language with your cell phone

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It is good to see one’s product hit the market. OK, it is not my product, but I built it. Before I started eZee, I provided mobile expertise/services to others (this helped pay the bills and bootstrap in the meantime). One of those products I developed is Edigo, a language learning Java ME application for … Read more

Sun to say adiós to mobile-specific Java

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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; see JavaME is *not* dead! Laurie Tolson, Vice President of the Client … Read more

The New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission

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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, got a gravity assist with a fly-by of Jupiter early this year … Read more

S60 Touch-based User Interface

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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 was about time. You know, I wouldn’t be surprised that such S60 … Read more

My “NFC in Mobile Commerce” Slides

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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 summit, but the folks who did win totally deserve it. If you … Read more

Webwag annouces a seed funding with a leading mobile operator

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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 a great visionary and leader in mobility and widgets. Awesome! ceo

Got nominated for the Tech Innovation Awards (Austin)

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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 or skip to the voting. :-) Vote for eZee! ceo

Mobile Portals

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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 pages of links.” Mike has published an initial list of mobile portals; … Read more