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Bar Camp Austin II – March 9th-10th 2007

BarCampAustin II will be held around SXSW Interactive in March 2007. whurley is currently making venue arrangements and looking for sponsors. If you know any individuals/projects/companies that would be interested in helping support this event, please send contact info to barcamp@whurley.com. This will…

MSA Claim #1

This is my first attempt using Claims by Jyte. My blog has been notorious for choking when including iframe tags inside the body of a post, so let's see if this go through. Update: Woohoo, it did! Neat. Update2: I wonder if the…

Porting Java (games) to Flash Lite

Anders @ Abiro points to an article by Adobe on Porting J2ME games to Flash Lite. One of the differences pointed out is the use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Flash Lite, which is something that is coming soon to Java ME…

The number 5,086

For the younger generation, texting is more important than voice calls. 5,086 is the number of text messages sent (and received) last month by my oldest daughter… a new record at my household. Unlimited text and data plans rule… See Texting and The…

Vinton Cerf of Google says Mobile phones to fuel Internet growth

Yeap, we have been saying that for a while… Mr. Cerf who is chief Internet evangelist at Google says: “Yet, the Internet only reaches a sixth of the world's population… You will get those other 5.5 billion people only when affordability increases and…

The Future of the Web and Mobile

The Future of Mobile Applications is Multiplatform, Multimodal The Future of Mobile Applications is Multimodal, Context-aware and Social The Future of Mobile Applications is exposing and consuming Services on the Web – The Web as the Platform The Future of Mobile Applications is…

Reminder — MoMo Austin event tonight: The Mobile Lifestyle

Reminder… Join us tonight to learn about the most recent mobile metrics, trends and technologies that define and shape the Mobile Lifestyle. Listen to David Gill, Director at Telephia, Jon Werner, CTO at Bones in Motion, and C. Eric Smith CTO and Stacey…

Blackberry: always connected, higher productivity, higher-pay, personality traits vs. chained to work and unbalanced work/personal-life

ARS Technica published an article on the results of a survey done by Digital Life America that concluded that Blackberry owners are chained to work; not a big surprise here. “The results were split exactly three ways: a third agreed, a third remained…

Flash Lite on 200 Million Handsets. Also, Flash Lite to Support Video

Two press releases by Adobe tell that Flash Enabled Mobile Devices Pass 200 Million, and that Adobe Flash Lite To Support Video for Mobile Handsets… ceo

Jason on The Secrets of Creating Great Connected Java ME Applications

Read a very good write-up by Jason at Paxmodept, where he covers what writing mobile applications is about… While he is talking about Java ME applications, what he describes really applies to (local) mobile applications in general, and not only to Java ME.…