Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
There is an interesting new project at Vodafone’s Betavine website that is called ContextMessages. Check it out. Context Aware Messaging for Bluetooth and Java Enabled Mobile Phones It should be a pretty neat project/study. The idea is to apply “personal, spatial and temporal context models to a mobile text messaging service”. Related to this see: … Read more
I recently got recognized, along with others in the mobile Java community, as a Java Mobile & Embedded Community Star. Community Stars are members who show noteworthy involvement in the community, be it by posting to forums, providing code, writing blogs, running projects, or getting involved in any other way that makes the community a … Read more
I recently read a great article on how Computing is perceived today, a natural science. Written by Peter J. Denning, director of the Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, you can find this article in the ACM magazine Communications of the ACM July 2007 (Volume 50, … Read more
The 3rd annual MobileMonday Global Summit is happening right now… As founder of the Austin chapter, I was invited to attend the summit, but I just couldn’t make it this year (I almost did); just too much/too many things are happening right now for me (i.e. eZee). I do wish I was there though… and … Read more
******************* Sept 17th Mobile Gaming ******************* This month we have gaming experts Billy Cain and Paul Trowe come speak about mobile gaming development and publishing. We also will have metrics and trends on mobile gaming from Telephia. It is going to be a great topic, so come join us! Time – 5:30 – 7:30pm. … Read more
Just got the word from Gary my CMO, that eZee was selected to participate at Under The Radar | Mobility Conference on November 15, 2007… Neat! 42 Startups, 20 Panelists, 400 attendees – 1 Day. …six minutes to tell our story, introduce our team and knock some socks off, where we (well, John my partner … Read more
Good to see Austin continue to attract well-known companies… The most recent one is Cray Inc.: “Austin has a very strong high-tech community in both hardware and software and provides a deep pool of technology and engineering talent,” said Peg Williams, senior vice president of research and development at Cray. “We look forward to becoming … Read more
What is the the best part of the hiring process? Well, to actually finish the hiring process, especially when the end-result is a team of great software folks… It took a lot of work, and time, and negotiations, and support from my peers. Now the Austin Lab is fully staffed, and it is time to … Read more
Registration for the Mobile 2.0 conference is now open. The one-day event is scheduled for October 15th, 2007. The event is organized by fellow Mobilists Mike Rowehl of AdMob, Daniel Appelquist of Vodafone, Gregory Gorman of The Open Group, Peter Vesterbacka of Some Bazaar, and Rudy De Waele of mTrends. I’ll be attending this year, … Read more
Image: The Gaping Void Too busy, too many things going on… meaning that blogging (and emails, and so on) will be very light for a while; I’ll play it by ear… ceo