Monthly Archives: September 2006

Security Gone Wild!!

Posted on September 25, 2006 by miker

The mobile feed reader from Feedburner I mentioned the other day is uninstallable on an E61 if you use the JAD with the certificate attached, and usable if you go directly to the JAR. Sounds like a whole bunch of … Continue reading →

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Free SMS Voting with TextMarks

Posted on September 24, 2006 by miker

When I mention TextMarks to people and say something like “so you can build applications that communicate via SMS”, the general response seems to be “why would you want to do that?” And I normally use the bookmarking example that … Continue reading →

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Smartphone Price Wars?

Posted on September 23, 2006 by miker

The release of a low end inexpensive Treo device is certainly more interesting in light of the possible interpretation of the Nokia E62 release also being a response to price pressure. Especially if it’s the leading edge of a general … Continue reading →

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Enabling Mobile Communities

Posted on September 23, 2006 by miker

I went up to the Enabling Mobile Communities SF Tech Session a few nights ago, it was a great set of presentations. Thanks to Niall and Eric from Phone Scoop for pulling together a fantastic event. wapTags Paul had given … Continue reading →

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The Nokia E62 Explained

Posted on September 21, 2006 by miker

Most of us techies who are fans of the E61, or own one, have been lamenting the E62 model that will actually grace the honest to goodness shelves at Cingular. The 6680 is just about the only Nokia model running … Continue reading →

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Quick Mobile Monday Wrapup

Posted on September 19, 2006 by miker

It’s late already, but there was a lot of great stuff at the MoMo demo night this evening that I want to at least get down somewhere. So here’s the raw dump. Zypsy has a text messaging service overlaid with … Continue reading →

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Busy Week For Mobile in the Bay Area

Posted on September 18, 2006 by miker

This week is a busy one for mobile related events in the Bay Area: Mobile Monday Demo Night – Sept 18th, a free-for-all mobile demo extravaganza! Television Breaks out of the Box – The Mad Rush to go Mobile – … Continue reading →

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Partial Overview of Mobile Content Tools

Posted on September 17, 2006 by miker

Working at AdMob I’ve started paying more attention to the mobile content and application side of things than I had previously. I guess that comes along with the territory when running an advertising network. One of the parts of my … Continue reading →

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Mobile Web Problems

Posted on September 16, 2006 by miker

These two posts at Little Springs Design are great: What’s wrong with the mobile web (part 1) multiple windows versus multiple layers Long term I’m a One Web person, but I’m also aware of the fact that The One Web … Continue reading →

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MarCamp

Posted on September 15, 2006 by miker

The good folks at Orange are holding MarCamp up in South San Francisco on Sept 26th. I’m going to be leading one of the sessions on mobile marketing, talking in particular about what we’ve been up to at AdMob and … Continue reading →

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