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Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference

Scheduled for January 22-24, 2008, the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer conference is devoted solely to the technologies of mobile and embedded Java platforms and is targeted for application developers of intermediate and advanced skill levels, platform developers, and technical personnel at tool…

Mobility-related speaking engagements for October 2007

I will be speaking or presenting at the following events during October 2007: Emerging Technologies panel at Mobile 2.0 event, October 15th. NFC in Mobile Commerce at Texas Wireless Summit, October 18th. Hope to see you there… ceo

Mowser – mobilizing the Web

I think Mowser rocks. It is simple, seems to use the right approach to context adaptation, and man, it’s fast — just check the Mowser version of Techmeme Top 100. I am not sure though about the business model that Russell is going…

Carnival of the Mobilists #93 @ Communities Dominate Brands

Another great edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, this week at the Communities Dominate Brands blog. Thanks to Tomi for picking up my blog entry On iterations, mobile, texting, web, and local applications. ceo

An XML Internet Operating System

I recently read about Xcerion’s XML Internet Operating System. Hmm, an XML OS? Do you think that the OS is slow, or highly verbose? The specifications and possibilities of Xcerion XML Internet Operating System (XIOS/3) include some quite interesting features. The essence of…

After two days, my website is up again!

My website was down for two days… supposedly a general network outage in the Downtown Chicago area where a number of servers for the hosting company that I use are located. That was painful! My apologies. If you sent me email in the…

Decoupling social networking, communication vs. search, and apples vs. oranges

Shawn Conahan, CEO @ Intercasting, wrote and interesting piece titled Decoupling social networking, but his following statement is just strange: “Simply put, Communication is more valuable than Search. ” I was going to leave a comment in his blog, but couldn’t find how,…

The New ROI: Return on Interaction

I like this definitions for ROI, by John Maeda, associate director of research and Allen Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab: From iThinking About iPods: Designers can tackle the time challenge in two different ways: by making the…

On iterations, mobile, texting, web, and local applications (oh, and voice)

(Update: this piece omitted voice as a medium, and it has been updated to reflect such.) A good post by Tom Hume on Iterations, mobile, and Java, on the debate of web vs. local, a debate that in my opinion is getting kind…

Jonathan Knudsen on “Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone”

Jonathan sent me an email that he will be teaching a tutorial on Java ME programming at OOPSLA in October. The details from his email follow: Title: Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone Time & Date: Monday, October 22, 1:30 PM…