A very nice post by David Beers titled Is the network the (mobile) computer? in response to another nice post by Marek Pawlowski MEX blog entry titled Latency kills the mobile experience; both of these essays were triggered by Yahoo! Go mobile application,…
No, it isn't Web 2.0… it is a Flash-based gadget… No installs, just pure instant satisfaction: IM, Gmail, video and photo previews… See Google Talk in action. Go to Google Talk's web page. ceo
Spring 2007 Season, Austin The Blockbusters (Volleyball Men's League BB) Regular Season: 9-1 1st Place @ Playoffs (Yeah, the Champs!) Front Row (left to right): C. Enrique Ortiz (setter), Jeff Newberry Back Row (left to right): Mike McKeon, Mike Stellfox, Edmund Troche, Roy…
In part 5 of the PIM API series, Using the PIM API for Java ME, examples of how to do everything from retrieving the names of PIM databases through PIM create/read/update/delete operations to exception handling. Now it's time to play. Previous parts for…
In this month's COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM (April 2007/Vol. 50, No. 4 37), Jeff Kramer, dean of the Faculty of Engineering and a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, wrote an excellent article that I recommend you go read.…
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists #67 is out, published by Dennis from WapReview. With 17 entries on topics that include The Mobile Future, Content Creation, Mobile Marketing, User Experience, and Mobile Content… If you haven't seen WapReview yet, it is one of…
From the press release – RIM Opens New BlackBerry APIs to Support Growth in Mobile Applications: “We are now opening the BlackBerry platform further with the release of additional APIs that can help fuel the next wave of mobile applications in areas such…
Z750 HSDPA phone I was expecting the first MSA phones to come out around the summer time, but SE's announcement of the Z750 beat that. Awesome. The first MSA phone on the market… The SE Z750, a tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE handset…
This blog was written back in 2007 — before the days of App Markets. These were the days when Operators totally controlled the Device/Smartphone experience. Android and iPhone were just coming out. One of the next “battlefronts” for mobile application vendors will widgets…
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Rafe Blandford's All About Symbian; 19 entries from context in mobility to Oz' IM. Very good entries overall, but two entries caught my eyes specially (not in any particular order): 1) Kiran Bellubbi (SmallDoses)…