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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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