Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Abhishek Tiwari’s weblog, who is hosting the Carnival for the first time, and who has done a great job with it. A great set of entries this week from the blogosphere, including Rudy of M-Trends, Xen from Xellular Identity, Paul from Mobile Point, Tomi and Alan of … Read more
Phil Solis, of ABI research, writes Get Ready for a Wave of Mobile Internet Devices, where he briefly covers the kind of new Intel-based devices that he saw at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). MIDs (mobile Internet devices) have been derived from concepts such as Nokia’s web tablets and WWAN-enabled UMPCs. note: I disagree with … Read more
Last night was episode #1 (of seven) of The War, a film by Ken Burns. It is the real story, as real as it gets, as told by the U.S. soldiers who fought at those theaters: in the Pacific, North Africa, and Europe, as well as the stories from the families in four towns in … Read more
Interesting that Tim writes about flat rates being considered harmful… Just last week I wrote that flat rates are the Requirement #1 for Mobile 2.0. To make sense why flat-rates are important, you need to understand what a “Mobile 2” application is. A next generation mobile application is a highly connected/interactive one; one that relies … Read more
Today I read on multiple weblogs (Mike Rowehl, Barbara Ballard, David Harper), about Luca Passani’s rant on Vodafone’s mishandling of the User-Agent HTTP header. I am writing about this, to show my support. I’m not going to regurgitate Luca’s point here, and you should go read how Vodafone UK is abusing its position. I totally … Read more
Last MobileMonday Austin event on mobile gaming was a great one — Paul Trowe (who recently sold his company Pulse Mobile Games to SK Telecom) and Billy Cain (of Critical Mass Interactive) covered the life-cycle of mobile gaming, from conception, to development, to publishing. It was a great, informative, straight to the point talk that … Read more
It is not AJAX. It is not Java ME or other mobile platform. It is not Mobile Web. It is not texting. At least not by themselves. It is –> F L A T F E E P L A N S! For data, and messaging. We are getting closer to … Read more
Leveraging the mobile context has a positive effect on the mobile user experience. As described in the essay The Mobile Context, the mobile context is defined as: “The user’s mobile context can be defined as the set of and the intersection between facts, events, circumstances, and information that surrounds the (mobile) user at a given … Read more
Google is funding the Lunar X Prize with $30 million, to encourage private teams to go to the moon, with $20 million to the first private enterprise to put a robot on the moon. Very nice Google! I love the space program, and this kind of announcements makes me want to go back to it… … Read more
With the new Microsoft Office 2007 release, comes new file formats. And with new file formats come the questions “but what the hell happened with the concept of backward compatibility?”, and “is this Microsoft’s strategy to force everyone to move up to Office 2007?”. Whatever the case is, Microsoft has not done a good job … Read more