Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
Photo source: BBC article The man who invented the cash machine The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is 40 years old. Invented by John Shepherd-Baron (OBE recipient) of Scotland, and first deployed at a branch of Barclays in Enfield, north London, the ATM changed the world, and societies all around the world. And recently, the 82 … Read more
…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. I've to admit, (not that I'm biased) but the application looks great, … Read more
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
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 for SXSW Interactive 2008, to submit their ideas for panels on mobility. … Read more
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 of mobile and internet communications. The website contains FAQ, forums, resources for … Read more
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]
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 are going to see new vendors coming along. Some will introduce products … Read more
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
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 his team! ceo
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 implemented across, and thus 2) it is a source of fragmentation. Sean … Read more