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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 of mobility blogging from around the world. Thanks Zach for including my … Read more
Photo Source: GIZMODO UK …and the winner is… the carrier, yes, the network provider… or maybe not? I was going to wait until the release of the iPhone, and wait and see, but I just can't hold this after reading today's newspaper… but before I continue, I will tell you that the looser though, is … Read more
We had another great and informative MobileMonday Austin last night – the topic was Mobile Banking and Payments. We started the night with some food, followed by industry metrics on mobile commerce, banking and payment courtesy of David Gill of Telephia. Great data that shows that interest on mobile banking and payments is increasing and … Read more
Planning for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival has already begun… “Scheduled March 7-11 2008 at the Austin Convention Center, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival brings together digital creatives from across the United State and around the world. The event features more than 100 panel sessions on topics ranging from web design to new … Read more
“Smaller applications mean faster installs, caching enables the updating of resources after installation – two wins for the consumer. Read Enrique Ortiz's latest on improving the application experience.” The article Implementing a Local Cache to Manage Resources builds upon previous articles Externalizing Resources – Persisting Images in RMS, and a simple method for Accessing a … Read more
A great, successful launch of STS-117. Awesome. I'm glad. The first Shuttle launch of 2007. Mission STS-117, on board Atlantis, is the 21st Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station… this one is taking 7 astronauts to the station. It has been a long time since the 1st mission related to the space station… … Read more
Reminder of our next MobileMonday Austin meeting, next Monday June 11th… We will have great industry data from Telephia (thanks to David Gill), and learn about mobile banking and related challenges from Amplify and M-Shift… and if time permits I might even talk about mobile payments and NFC. Join us to learn about mobile banking … Read more
The final installment of the six-part series on the Personal Information Management API (JSR 75), Summary of PIM Fields, provides a reference on the PIM fields and pointers to related on-line resources. Below is a summary of all six-parts on Using the PIM API for Java ME: An Introduction to the PIM API for Java … Read more
The final release of Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.1 for CLDC is now available for download. This version includes: bug fixes USB tokens for MIDlet signing support on Ubuntu Linux Plus the following JSRs: * Mobile Service Architecture (JSR 248) * Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI) (JSR 185) * Connected Limited Device Configuration … Read more
Earlier this week, Rocco Georgi, Bryan Rieger, and Ajit Jaokar published their Mobile AJAX FAQ at the Horizon Channel. There has been a number of reactions to it that you can find in the blogosphere, Ander's response is here, and Mike Rowehl's response is here, both who are mobility practitioners who emphasize that Mobile AJAX … Read more