Mobile apps rising

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Mobile apps come to '3'

Mobile apps come to '3' 06/01/2004 11:20 PM
ZDNet Australia Jun 2 2004 3:14AM GMT

Telstra mobile phone faults rising:
Leaked report

Telstra mobile phone faults rising:
Leaked report 07/28/2004 09:55 PM
ZDNet Australia Jul 29 2004 1:37AM GMT

SH-Mobile Video Apps for 3G Phones

SH-Mobile Video Apps for 3G Phones 01/28/2004 05:05 AM
3G Jan 28 2004 9:23AM GMT

Basic Considerations for Mobile PC Apps

Basic Considerations for Mobile PC Apps 03/25/2005 11:13 PM
Enabling the Wireless Enterprise Mar 26 2005 3:33AM GMT

Developing mobile apps on Series 90

Developing mobile apps on Series 90 11/04/2003 06:29 AM
Briefing

IAnywhere provides messaging for mobile
apps

IAnywhere provides messaging for mobile
apps 08/02/2004 06:57 PM
 IAnywhere Solutions Inc. has released a new messaging product for its mobile database software called QAnywhere, which lets developers write applications for "occasionally connected" devices that can synchronize frequently throughout the day with back-end systems, the company said Monday.

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BEA transforms mobile apps with Alchemy

BEA transforms mobile apps with Alchemy 05/26/2004 03:16 PM

Mobile apps: certification discussions

Mobile apps: certification discussions 11/06/2003 06:28 AM
Raising the standard

Mobile apps will drive Taiwan silicon

Mobile apps will drive Taiwan silicon 06/03/2004 05:01 AM
Dr Morris Chang speaks

GeoTrust To Secure Mobile Java Apps

GeoTrust To Secure Mobile Java Apps 07/26/2004 07:48 PM
Java Verified gets signed.

Supernova '05: "Apps. for a Mobile,
Connected World"

Supernova '05: "Apps. for a Mobile,
Connected World" 06/24/2005 09:22 PM

Hm. So I spent a good forty-five minutes yesterday writing the next post in my series on Supernova '05, only to lose it catastrophically when Safari collapsed under the weight of 150 open tabs. So this will probably be a slightly shorter version of that post. It may also benefit from having had more digestion time. Who knows.

The first panel of the day was "Applications for a Mobile, Connected World" and featured Lili Cheng of Microsoft, Caterina Fake of Flickr, Amy Jo Kim of SocialDesigner.net, Mena Trott of Six Apart and Evan Williams of Odeo. The area that these people stake out between them could probably be summarised as individual-focused social software, weblogs/personal publishing and amateurised media distribution. All these subjects are very close to my heart and many of the people on the panel are my peers and friends. So again, I should probably throw out a quick warning about perspective and potential bias from the start.

Looking back on the panel, it basically fell into discussions about three main areas: (1) The individual's creation of media, what it means to them and how it can be supported; (2) The effects of taking that personal creation and embedding it in a wider social context - what new things become possible; (3) The role of human psychology, trust and trusted networks in the whole enterprise.

Discussion about individual creation really started with some comments from Ev - probably doubly appropriate because both his work with Noah Glass at Odeo and his previous life at Blogger confront these issues head on. He started off the session by saying, "at Odeo we're here to enable lots of the ideas that we saw with blogging and to take them to a new medium". His starting point was the individual's participation in media in general and their ability to create and share media of their own. As an example of how that could be immediately harnessed, he cited the work that Amazon undertook in enabling participation and the enormously positive effect it had on their business.

Between them, Caterina, Amy Jo, Mena and Lili focused more on the individual's desire to express their identity online and to capture memories. Caterina pointed towards Friendster as the moment when the idea of creating a digital presence for yourself suddenly stopped being strange, alien and geeky. She said, in a comment that I personally found very resonant, that "When I first started weblogging, people thought it was very strange".

Amy Jo picked up on this idea of expressing identity, saying that user-generated content - specifically in her case focused on games - was an incredibly important form of expression and that it was appearing at a whole range of new and interesting registers from overtly publishing in weblogs to the more tacit expression through playlist sharing on services like iTunes.

Mena really brought memories to the fore. She stated that she wished she had a record of everything that had happened in the first twenty-seven yearas of her life like she has since she first started weblogging. She revealed that she takes a picture of herself every day as a hook to hang her memories around - saying that she could see immediately her mood and her background and her surroundings and very quickly get a sense of what she was feeling at that precise moment, even years after the fact... Although there was a bit of scepticism in the backchannel about this concept, Lili Cheng supported it very rapidly by talking about how important she felt it was to capture as much information about what you were doing as possible (presumably connected to her work on Wallop and/or to Microsoft's stuff around MyLifeBits). Her position was really interesting - saying that it was very difficult to know which memories you were going to come to cherish in the future and that having these records gave you a structure to narrativise around.

Later, in the question and answer session, an audience member expressed their anxiety that their weblog wouldn't be there in twenty years time - that it would get lost somehow - and said that they would find that 'devastating'. Mena answered that with a really interesting characterisation of SixApart as a company that 'held memories' for their users. She said they took that responsibility very seriously.

In terms of the social dimension, the panel focused on two major areas - the increasing desire to communicate in small groups of real-life friends and the larger implications / possibilities of being embedded in space where your actions became part of something larger and more powerful. Caterina was particularly interesting. She talked about how one of Flickr's major selling points was the sharing aspect and that this is what differentiated it from the other photo-publishing services online. She pointed out that 80% of all photos on Flickr were public. And she moved on to say that many technologies developed entirely new possibilities when connected to social networks. Her prime example here was the folksonomic tagging approach that Flickr and del.icio.us have pioneered - and she pointed out that this was generating an entirely new way of organising and categorising content online. This wouldn't have been possible with the substrata of the social networking functionality.

Mena and Lili were the particular evangelists of the power of communication within small groups rather than to the world at large. One quote from Mena rang particularly true:

"One of the biggest things that I've been able to see - this whole idea of inward conversations - smaller audiences really matter. I believe that this internal-facing weblog is really important - the kind of conversaiton that you're goign to have with smaller audiences is different to conversations you have in public. We really realised this when we bought LiveJournal this year. An audience of six people really matters to a lot of people.

Lili took this even further by talking about the qualities of the conversations themselves, pointing towards a concept of 'energy' and suggesting that this quality was something that she was now able to move into the rest of Microsoft's work:

"Sometimes you want to find a critical mass in really small circles. What's most important is whether I'm having a dialogue with people which feels like it has energy?

At this point, Ev Williams came up with a point to balance this discussion, talking a bit about his time at Blogger again:

"Of course there are a lot of people out there who only write for strangers. We used to put everyone's name under their posts and people used to really protest. They didn't want people in their every day life seeing stuff they'd written online.

But probably the biggest focus of the panel, and a recurring theme of the conference as a whole was the concept of 'trust' and what it meant. This was a more heavily contested area - related to the idea of social networks and small groups but understood differently by different people. Caterina made a particularly nice high-level and inspiring comment about trust that I enjoyed:

"It's trust that enables us to go out in the world. It's the thing that makes the internet possible."

A slightly more formally expressed and nuanced position (but perhaps a less practical one to implement) came from Amy Jo:

"You don't build trust by 'throwing crap up on your website', even though a lot of the work that people are doing is foundational in building trust - personal control in who sees what. Trust is contextual - I trust my husband to be a good man and a good guy, but I don't trust him to get the right kind of bleach. it's contextual, it's not global.

Finally - moving on from the concept of trust - one other interesting comment came from Ev Williams when talking about the future of podcasting. I'm not completely sure that I agree with it. It was in response to a question from audience about the future of podcasting. His response:

"The future of podcasting is not on the pod but on the phone - and it takes these ideas not only to a new medium but to a whole new audience".

I've heard this particular sentiment from a lot of people recently, but as yet it seems to me entirely unproven. As I understand it, radios on phones have - on the whole - not been an enormous success to date - whether that's because of implementation or use cases is unclear to me at the moment. But podcasting to phones also feels like something whose time is further off, when the handset has been more substantially abstracted from the concept of voice / data connectivity. But that's all speculation, and probably a good point to end this particular batch of notes.

[You can find my full notes from the session here]

IAnywhere offers messaging for mobile
apps

IAnywhere offers messaging for mobile
apps 08/03/2004 07:42 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 3 2004 11:06AM GMT

N+I - Symbol aims to get apps onto
mobile clients

N+I - Symbol aims to get apps onto
mobile clients 05/12/2004 04:06 PM
LAS VEGAS - Symbol Technologies on Wednesday pushed its Symbol MSS (Mobile Services Suite), introduced at the Networld+Interop conference this week in Las Vegas, as a platform for delivering enterprise applications to mobile devices.

CTIA: Sybase partners for mobile
enterprise apps

CTIA: Sybase partners for mobile
enterprise apps 03/17/2005 03:41 AM
Sybase announced at this weekā€™s CTIA Wireless 2005 conference that its mobile software has been certified for use with Cingularā€™s GSM/GPRS/EDGE network.

JAVAONE - Nokia sees progress next year
for mobile apps

JAVAONE - Nokia sees progress next year
for mobile apps 06/30/2004 05:53 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - Nokia Corp. expects work to be wrapped up early next year on a new Java standard that should make it easier to manage business and consumer applications on mobile phones and other wireless devices, Nokia's chief technology officer said Wednesday.

The Mobile Technology Webl0g - "Location
Based Services and all about Mobile
Marketing" - Porn 4 UR Mobile

The Mobile Technology Webl0g - "Location
Based Services and all about Mobile
Marketing" - Porn 4 UR Mobile 03/29/2005 04:35 PM
CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS .. week's edition

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70% and rising

70% and rising 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to...

Sun Rising on JDS

Sun Rising on JDS 07/12/2004 05:35 PM
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Moto rising

Moto rising 07/28/2004 01:20 PM

If I was into the stock market - which I'm not - I'd buy Motorola right now.

I've rece ntly written about their new CTO, they bought a UWB company, Russell Beattie likes them and now they're announcing a Wifi phone.

Isn't that enough evidence of what's up? If not - check this out....

VoIP Rising

VoIP Rising 06/13/2004 03:25 PM
When it comes to making voice calls over the Internet, no company has gotten more attention lately than Skype. This is the service that lets people use PCs to make long distance and international calls for no additional charge. Skype's developers have earned the praise, given the service's high quality and ease of use. But they might not be winning such plaudits if it wasn't for some underlying software they have licensed from a company called Global IP Sound. More...

Rising Sun has Risen

Rising Sun has Risen 07/03/2004 12:39 AM
Michael Crichton predicted in Rising Sun that digital imaging technology would make photographs and video irrelevant in court cases. It took 11 years for his prediction to come true.

Oracle Rising?

Oracle Rising? 06/16/2004 04:37 PM
Plus, NBC keeps its perch, and the virus fight spreads.

E*Trade's Rising Bid?

E*Trade's Rising Bid? 07/21/2004 01:08 PM
E*Trade had a nice second quarter in terms of EPS. But should it be considered for an individual's portfolio?

Mercury rising

Mercury rising 04/18/2005 11:15 AM
Millions of fetuses whose mothers eat fish are being exposed to brain-damaging mercury. But critics charge the Bush administration's regulations are like bailing the ocean with a thimble.

Rising Gmail

Rising Gmail 08/09/2004 10:00 AM
You got Gmail? Not likely, at least not yet. The free e-mail plan, splashily announced in April as "a Google approach to e-mail," has so far only been delivered to a select group of invited "beta" (test) users. One who wangled himself an invitation is Rickin Chauhan, a 24-year-old Brampton resident and recent McMaster University computer science graduate now looking for a job.

Red Storm Rising

Red Storm Rising 09/01/2004 05:33 PM

Sandia supercomputer to be world's fastest, yet smaller and less expensive than any competitor: This description of the new "Red Storm" computer being developed at Sandia is like porn for hardware geeks. Supposedly, this machine is going to take the title of World's Fastest Computer back from the NEC Earth Simulator.

The machine has 96 processors in each computer cabinet, with four processors to a board. Each processor can have up to eight gigabytes of memory sitting next to it. Four Cray SeaStars — powerful networking chips — sit on a daughter board atop each processor board. All SeaStars talk to each other "like a Rubik cube with lots of squares on each face,"¯ says Camp. "Cray SeaStars are about a factor of five faster than any current competing capability."

Messages encoded in MPI (the Message Passage Interface standard) move from processor to processor at a sustained speed of 4.5 gigabytes per second bidirectionally. The amount of time to get the first information bit from one processor to another is less than 5 microseconds across the system. The machine is arranged in four rows of cabinets. There are a total of 11,648 Opteron processors and a similar number of SeaStars.

USAToday has an article today about how the machine is based on an 80-year-old mathematical theory.

Ideas from an early 20th century British scientist are at the heart of a massive supercomputer expected to be the fastest in the world once it's assembled at Sandia National Laboratories.

Mathematician Lewis F. Richardson wanted a way to forecast the weather. But the basic concepts he envisioned — a way for many calculations to be shared quickly and integrated — lie at the heart of Sandia's machine, Red Storm, which will be used in nuclear weapons work.

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Taekwondo Rising

Taekwondo Rising 08/29/2004 07:06 AM

I thought above shot was the best Athens Olympic photo so far.  Chu Mu Yen, the guy in blue coming in for a landing after after delivering a brutal counter-kick, won Taiwon's first Olympic gold.  Nice kick and nice form during landing.

Taekwondo was added as an official Olympic sport four years ago, but rules discouraged spectacular attacks and was hampered by distrust of judges.  For Athens, they changed the rule to encourage head or knockout attacks and made extra efforts to shore up quality of judging to good effect and Taekwondo is starting to become one of the most exciting Olympic events to watch.

"Booker Rising"

"Booker Rising" 06/12/2004 03:16 AM

Other News: RAM Rising

Other News: RAM Rising 04/14/2004 10:28 AM
Cnet reports that RAM prices are shooting up.

Deimos Rising 1.0.6

Deimos Rising 1.0.6 01/08/2004 08:48 PM
If you thought the enemies you faced on Mars were hectic, wait until you touch down on Deimos.

Shadows Rising

Shadows Rising 05/20/2004 06:58 AM
The Project Commences

3 Rising Stars

3 Rising Stars 08/04/2004 11:36 AM
Tom Gardner draws back the curtain on his Hidden Gems approach to small-cap investing.

Blackberry rising

Blackberry rising 07/29/2004 01:16 PM

Om Malik writes......

Amdist all the hoopla around Motorola' new products, one news which got little mention was the deal struck between Moto and Blackberry for MPx. By now, Blackberry has signed-up most major phone makers, and has worked out plans to embed its software/service on all sorts of SmartPhone OS platforms. We are looking at a defactor wireless email platform? Perhaps!

But this clearly is not good news for well, Good Technology! Motorola's MPx was supposedly going to be an exclusive Good deal, but I guess not. And those smart VCs who have pumped in nearly $250 million into wireless email must be reaching for their large box of Tums! Good alone accounts for $146 million of the total.

My theory on this is, that by launching an aggresive marketing/hype campaign, Good galvanized those meek canadians into action. Had that not happened, RIM probably would have kept doing what they were doing - selling devices and service and growing at a nice Canadian pace. Threatened, they went on and signed up all these people. Voila! They are in good place, Good in not!

• A Microcosm of VC Madness: $250M for Wireless E-Mail
• Return of Hype
• What's So Good?

[gigaom]

I totally agree with Om.

This is an example where patents and VCs have really FUDed the landscape and all of a sudden a sleeping Tiger has been clued in and appears to grok it now.

I just hate the concept of the mini-keyboard being patented - but let's just get on with making sure it's baked into all sorts of devices - as my chubby fingers will NEVER learn to thumb type, graffitti or whatever.

I'm a QWERTY keyboard guy - till I die - I got no choice about it. And there's no way in hell I'm typing SMS messages with a phone pad....

Anyway - congrats to Blackberry - not let's get on with it.

AirG Liberates Mobile Phone Users in
Iraq: AirG Launches Interactive Mobile
Community ‘MonAmi’ on Iraq’s First GSM
Mobile Network

AirG Liberates Mobile Phone Users in
Iraq: AirG Launches Interactive Mobile
Community ‘MonAmi’ on Iraq’s First GSM
Mobile Network 04/09/2005 03:48 AM
AirG, the global leader in powering mobile communities announced today that its mobile friend finder service MonAmi is now available to customers in Iraq. [PRWEB Apr 9, 2005]

Rising bl0g-spam

Rising bl0g-spam 11/06/2003 05:07 PM
While it's sad, and more than a little pathetic, blog spam, like all the other sorts of spam, seems to be on the rise. I've been getting more and more comments posted that aren't anything more than links to some pill site or other. Having some of the antispam MT plugins helps,but still, there's a bunch I need to go hand-delete. (After which I generally IP-ban the poster, which has worked as well to cut down on the spam, though I worry about the collateral damage) It's really sad, though. Yeah, it means more work for me, and more maintenance,...

Are you worried about rising oil prices?

Are you worried about rising oil prices? 06/02/2004 07:08 AM
Representatives from the oil cartel Opec are set to meet on Thursday amid concerns over rising oil prices which have reached record highs. How are petrol prise rises affecting you?

Net ads ring up rising sales

Net ads ring up rising sales 09/20/2004 02:56 PM
Online ad revenue rises more than 40 percent in the second quarter, propelled by skyrocketing paid-search sales.

Blue Moon Rising 0.1

Blue Moon Rising 0.1 09/07/2004 04:09 PM
A theme with a full moon, mountains, and sea.

Obesity Rising Among U.S. Preschoolers
(AP)

Obesity Rising Among U.S. Preschoolers
(AP) 12/30/2004 04:59 PM
AP - The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: More than 10 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight, the American Heart Association reported Thursday.
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