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A new startup company in Austin Texas, is looking for developers

A new startup company in Austin Texas, eZee inc. (http://www.eZee.com) is looking to fill permanent positions with experienced server developers, mobile developers, quality assurance engineers, and product owners, to help create the next generation of mobile commerce and payment software products and services.…

Future of Mobile – Nov 14 ’07, London

The Future of Mobile, organized by Ryan Carson and his group, has been announced for Nov 14 in London. A great speaker line up, including Dan, Brian, Chetan, Andrea, Luca, and others. It is going to be a great event. I wish I…

Expressing emotions through HTTP return codes

While the majority of us use emoticons to express emotions while typing computer messages, others use HTTP return codes… Yes, that is a Facebook group I encountered, which promotes the use of HTTP return codes as a “better emoticon”. From the group’s description:…

XHTML Basic 1.1 reference released by W3C

The W3C has released the XHTML Basic 1.1 as a Candidate Recommendation. With it, Dominique has published a useful cheat sheet — the XHTML Basic 1.1 Elements and Attributes reference. From the XHTML Basic 1.1 spec: This revision, 1.1, supercedes version 1.0. In…

Mobile Marketing Association Resources, Guidelines and Primers

Below are a number of good resources by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA): PRIMER, INTROS, ETC. Ø Understanding Mobile Marketing: Technology & Reach*http://www.mmaglobal.com/uploads/MMAMobileMarketing102.pdf Ø Introduction to Mobile Search*http://www.mmaglobal.com/uploads/MMAMobileSearchIntro.pdf Ø Short Code Primer*http://www.mmaglobal.com/shortcodeprimer.pdf GUIDELINES Ø Consumer Best Practices*http://www.mmaglobal.com/bestpractices.pdf (Recently updated on July 16, 2007…

CEnriqueOrtiz Lingr discusson room

Update 8/6: Experiment has been completed. Chat room has been closed… Update 8/1: Russ has closed his Lingr chat room. I am going to continue experimenting with Lingr, as in my case I see it as a public interaction channel for when I…

Carnival of the Mobilists #84

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #84 is at Mobile Messaging 2.0, and written by Debi Jones (of MobileJones.com) … Topics this week include SMS, MoSoSo, the iPhone, Mobile Web, Nokia handsets, Carriers/Operators, Mobile Industry, and International Travel; a great read. Thanks to…

Action Engine lands $20 million in VC funding

With this new $20M, it totals $65 million in VC funding since it was founded in 2000. Action Engine is one of the promoters of On-Device Portals (ODP). ODP is a fancy name for an end-to-end mobile application (client on the handset, and…

Dogs, skateboards and iPhones

After watching the iPhone TV commercial for the millionth time, I decided to try to find the YouTube video of the dog riding the skateboard… While I am not sure that I found the exact same video as on the TV commercial, I…

Java ME Milestone: Motorola taking first step towards Apache License

Brian Deuser, Software Test Architect at Motorola Mobile Devices Software announced the following on the KVM Interest list: “In order to promote a unified mobile Java platform, Motorola is proud to release Gatling version 1.0.03 and the MIDP 2.1 TCK 003 under the…