Show up at my place Friday evening for the light stuff, Saturday morning for the heavy stuff. -m
Category: mobile
I don’t know if I hit a glitch in the system or what, but while I was making my periodic browser through the online Apple Store, I noticed a refurb iPod Shuffle for under fourty bucks. I was trying to wait for the next rev, but hey, I have more travel coming up. I tend…
For better or worse. In no particular order. Affordable unlimited data plans Google getting into the operator business Yahoo! getting into the operator business Affordable phones not tied to carriers The iPod phone Development of strong AI (yes I say this about everything) Development of decent agent software Affordable unlimited voice plans Collapse of network…
Nokia has announced a port of Apache to Symbian, allowing a full web server to run on a phone, with the quote “there really is no reason anymore why webservers could not reside on mobile phones”. Well, there’s battery life… Anyway, would you want to run a server on your phone? What would you use…
Limited and insecure network connections have kept me from writing more, but man are there a lot of iPods in Scotland. They’re everywhere. Finding a power adapter for a PowerBook, on the other hand, is nearly impossible. -m Update: See the comments here to view (or add) your travel tips.
Seen on Bill Trippe’s blog. Gray Knowlton, who indentified himself as a Senior Product Manager for InfoPath 2007 said the next version of SharePoint will “include InfoPath Forms Services, which will render InfoPath forms to browsers and html-enabled mobile devices, and this will not require InfoPath on the form fillers’ desktop, nor will it require…
According to news.com Apple and Japanese telecom giant Softbank may be developing a new mobile phone that can download songs from iTunes Wait a minute, is that the same Softbank that owns the biggest chunk of Yahoo! Japan? Yep. This is utter speculation, but I’d watch the Apple+Yahoo! space, particularly for mobile… -m
PC World. T-Mobile prohibits VOIP over their network. Anyone care to report on their experience running VOIP over any cellular network? -m
I’m going to start covering mobile developments more here. If you have any scoops, let me know. -m P.S. Comment moderation has already paid for itself here. Sorry, spammers. (No, not really)
According to CNet, Moto is gathering their development programs under one roof. Does this give any hope for a decent mobile browser from these guys? If so, I’m all for it. -m