On UI design, demos, expectation setting, practicality, and the technical realities of our space

If you are commissioning mobile software design and development work for your product, read below… It is great (ideal) to have UI designers design the ideal user experience and related assets. And it is important to have these UI designers be in touch with the realities, especially with respect to time-frames… It concerns me when … Read more

Next MobileMonday Austin event: Mobile Banking and Payments, June 11 '07

Join us to learn about mobile banking and payments. Speakers will cover mobile banking and payment industry metrics, followed by wireless banking and payments over the years and today. Also covered are the challenges and lessons learned related to bringing such mobile commerce applications to mobile handsets, including the ecosystem players, user interface and integration, … Read more

Standardizing location-based services (LBS)

The ISO has been working on a number of specifications to standardize Geographic information or Geomatics. Below is some information related to this. 1. ISO 19134 “ISO 19134 specifies the data types and their associated operations for the implementation of multimodal location-based services for routing and navigation. It is designed to specify web services that … Read more

Java Mobility Podcast 5: A Talk With Java ME Expert C. Enrique Ortiz

From Java Mobility Podcasts #5: C. Enrique Ortiz, a recognized mobility expert, renowned blogger, developer, and author, touches on a range of mobility topics in this interview, including: moving to CDC; the latest JSRs that are important to mobile developers; mobile AJAX; and the issue of device fragmentation. Right-click or Control-click to download this MP3 … Read more

Congrats to Intercasting Corp on their recent round of funding

Above: Intercasting's Anthem Platform in action… I want to congratulate Intercasting Corp., and Derrick Oien (who last year presented at Mobile Monday Austin) and Shawn Conahan, and their teams, on their recent round of funding earlier this month; good times. Shawn and Derrick are two individuals who get what mobility is about… They understand mobility, … Read more

ACM Queue: Articles on SIP

The ACM Queue magazine has published a number of great articles on SIP. Some of the articles of interest include: SIP Primer, SIP Glossary, Unified Communications with SIP, Decentralizing SIP, and Making SIP make Cents. ceo

Dell says "Don't look for wireless phone soon", and why Dell will never succeed on the mobile phone business

There has been some speculation about a possible Dell-branded mobile phone, speculations that were further fueled when the company hired Motorola executive Ron Garriques earlier this year. More recently, Mr. Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Inc., said that the company won't be rolling out any mobile phones any time soon… And on a … Read more