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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 terms and conditions of the Apache License, Version 2.0.” This might seem … Read more
CTIA position on the 700MHz Spectrum Auction (and directly against Google): “CTIA-The Wireless Association® strongly supports the open and fair auction of licenses for spectrum in the 700 MHz band with flexible service rules that will allow the wireless industry to continue its unequaled innovation and service to more than 240 million customers.” “CTIA opposes … Read more
Michael Stonebraker is a DB guru — over 30 years of experience with database technologies. He started with Ingres (and the open source PostgreSQL) developed at UC Berkeley, he taught at UC Berkeley, is currently an adjunct professor of computer science at MIT, and is an expert on “federated database and stream-processing markets”. Stonebraker was … Read more
See Dominique’s Thin and dumb, or fat and smart? Good to see the folks at the W3C Mobile Web Initiative Team understand the future, the importance of the convergence between browser-based and local clients, which is something I have been predicating for a while. As Dominique, I believe the distinction between both will fade over … Read more
The best user interface is the one that combines visual (GUI) and natural language. And the closest, cheapest thing to natural language is the command line interface (CLI); the ideal natural language medium is voice. This ideal user interface also applies to mobile. The folks at Humanized, a group of folks who are totally thinking … Read more
Moblin.org is an interesting open source project related to Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). “… an umbrella, open source project focused on the development of Linux for Intel-based devices. To this purpose, moblin.org will host various projects that will provide key elements of community-based projects such as Ubuntu’s Mobile and Embedded Edition*, and Red Flag’s … Read more
On his blog Russ Beattie writes When is Motorola going to get it together?. It is a good write up that I hope the folks at Motorola read. From my perspective, we all know that Motorola is right now going through tough times. We live on an era where cutting-edge technology innovation is key to … Read more
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (#83) is at Golden Swamp – great submissions from the blogosphere. Check it out! Thanks to Judy for including my entry The next big thing is Touch. ceo
Related to operators dumping i-mode, Jason writes Why i-mode is Bad For The Mobile Internet with a good summary on some of the reasons why i-mode fails to succeed outside Japan today… Another reason is that I believe the success of i-mode in Japan has a lot to do with culture, which is why it … Read more
What a cool project… Galaxy Zoo leverages the human collective intelligence to help classify thousands of images taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: “Astronomers are inviting members of the public to help them make major new discoveries by taking part in a census of one million galaxies.” It is the same concept introduced by … Read more