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Slow blogging week, but all good…

…busy, but it was a good week… Completed another drop for one of my clients, Edioma — I created for them a very cool micro-learning application that is entering BETA, that allows people to learn and translate between languages using their mobile handset.…

We’re really at Mobile Web 0.5

Yes we are… but don't take my word for it… Sumit Agarwal, a product manager in Google’s mobile division, also believes so… See Mobile Web 2.0 May Be Too Ambitious, Let’s Call It Mobile 0.5 ceo

Carnival of the Mobilists #78

The 78th weekly Carnival of the Mobilists at Symbian-Guru.com. As usual, great essays from Mobilists from all around the world… check it out. Thanks to Tim for including my entry. Let me take the opportunity of reminding everyone about the call for Mobilists…

Resources for Mobile Developers — Vodafone Betavine

Some of the best resources for mobile developers are the developer resources provided by handset manufacturers and network providers. One of these developer resources is Vodafone Betavine, a website run by Vodafone's R&D group with the goal of encouraging collaboration in the area…

Coolest Gadget for Father's Day — Baby monitor that turns into a Space Station monitor

Click to see video (Fox Chicago) “I put the kids down, put the baby monitor on and saw two people floating in space.” Happy Father's Day! ceo [Via The Raw Feed, Wired Maganize, and Fox Chicago]

Jonathan Green on Jaiku Mobile

A very nice introduction video by Jonathan Green on Jaiku… Jaiku gets it and they have done an excellent job on (the more advanced) Nokia handsets, and with their platform. There are not many (successful) vendors on this mobile social space. But we…

Back to the Future – Computer User Interfaces – the Sun Starfire, and Microsoft Surface

Sun Microsystems surface computing, the Starfire (1994 concept): >> See Sun Microsystems' Starfire concept video (complete with drama, heh)   Surface computing today, Microsoft: >> See Microsoft's Surface video (Popular Mechanics) ceo

Webwag mobile widgets launch

Tom announces the official launch of Webwag mobile. If you have a recent Java ME phone you can experiment with their mobile widgets, which are authored using an XML for the UI, and a simple scripting language for behavior. Congrats to Tom and…

MIDP3 Proposal to remove the MIDlet pauseApp() lifecycle method

Currently there is a proposal within the MIDP3 Expert Group, to remove, or I should say, deprecate, the MIDlet pauseApp() life-cycle method… The rationale is that 1) it is a source of confusion for both developers and implementers because it is not consistently…

Carnival of the Mobilists #77

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists # 77 is at the Symbian in Motion blog. As Zach the host puts it, “…sit back, take a sip of that coffee, make sure that your calls are forwarded – and enjoy!”… … a great set…