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IE is WWW. But in this case WWW means World’s Worst Web (browser experience). …but you already knew that. IE is the browser the behaves differently from all others… It is so out of whack with respect to other browsers that is just funny. Opera, Safari, Mozilla, Firefox, others all work/render content similarly… but IE … Read more
Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced in his blog about the The Rise of JAVA – The Retirement of SUNW. Many reactions on this can be read on the web, including the comments on Jonathan’s blog; too many for me to read. But below are my observations… Two very important and critical messages are embedded within … Read more
My friend Gary Mendel (CMO at eZee) pointed me to this story: Carriers Chosen for European iPhone From the story: Apple has chosen its carriers for the iPhone launch in Europe, according to a report published Tuesday in the Financial Times. The report, citing unnamed sources, said the chosen partners are T-Mobile Deutschland for Germany, … Read more
Last June I posted here in this blog and in other places the call for mobility panelists for the 2008 SXSW interactive festival with the goal of promoting mobility at the festival… well the results are in. This year 38 sessions on mobile and wireless were submitted! That is awesome, thank you! And just announced … Read more
Following my previous post Mobile, data plans and the digital divide, what can we, as mobile software product developers, do to help with the problem of cost of ownership that result in a digital divide? The answer is that we must be smart and considerate about the cost of ownership of mobile applications. An obvious … Read more
From the Sun announcement by Richard Marejka: Topic: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248 When: August 20-24, 2007 Experts: Mikhail Gorshenev, senior staff engineer, Sun Microsystems E-ming Saung, Product Line Manager, Java ME Marketing group, Sun Microsystems Hinkmond Wong, senior staff engineer , Java ME group, Sun Microsystems Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), is a Java … Read more
Folks – The Mobile Gaming session originally scheduled for August 27th will be moved to September. More information shortly. Thanks. ceo
When addressing the general consumer market, we (product owners and developers of mobile/handset applications) must cater both advanced and non-advanced users. It is very common to see applications that are only or mainly delivered for the more advanced, or early adopters-type of users. It is tempting to take such approach, as it is a more … Read more
According to Alex Moskalyuk of IT Facts: Wireless data revenue in the US was approximately $13 billion in 2006, and is projected to be 3 times that in 2010. Wireless data and multimedia services accounted for 6% of all wireless revenue in the US in 2006, and is projected to go up 4 times that … Read more
Mobile transactions is more complicated, and interesting, than it first appears or sounds. Juniper Research predicts that by 2011: “Person-to-Person (P2P) fund transfers and mobile payments in the developing world, together with the commercialization of NFC based mobile payments, will generate transactions worth approximately $22bn.” If you look closely at the above sentence, you will … Read more