Monthly Archives: October 2007

Greenphone Official Word

Posted on October 23, 2007 by miker

There’s info about the Greenphone and Qtopia Phone Edition up on the Trolltech site now. Interestingly the discussion about the future of the Linux platform seems to have moved over to Vodafone Betavine. Interesting choice, I’m not going to comment. … Continue reading →

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And Then There Will Be Cake

Posted on October 23, 2007 by miker

A new video game store called Play N Trade just opened right along my walk from work to home in San Mateo. And in addition to posting about Team Fortress 2 Russ also passes along a video clip or two … Continue reading →

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Russ Attempts a “Pants-on-Head Retarded” Usage

Posted on October 22, 2007 by miker

Ever since we encountered the the Zero Punctuation review of Halo 3 every one of my friends has agreed that our new ultimate goal in life is to be able to slip the phrase “pants-on-head retarded” into casual conversation as … Continue reading →

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Intersection of Video and Gaming

Posted on October 22, 2007 by miker

Charlie posted about a full length version of Bloodspell created by Hugh Hancock using a technique called machinima. I’m downloading it now. What it is at heart is using an engine from a gaming system (or something not meant for … Continue reading →

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Greenphone Killed Off?

Posted on October 22, 2007 by miker

Engadget Mobile reports that Trolltech has sold their last Greenphone and is recommending OpenMoko hardware if you want to try out their software. I don’t see anything about this on the Trolltech site however. Last time I spoke to the … Continue reading →

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Modifying docpurge

Posted on October 21, 2007 by miker

The N800 comes with a package called docpurge that deletes files which for most users are just cruft. I end up installing some packages that install stuff I actually want in places like /usr/share/doc. I want to keep them around, … Continue reading →

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AdMob Stats Remix

Posted on October 21, 2007 by miker

We released a bunch of data to share a view of our particular slice of the mobile web based on the requests we see coming through AdMob, and Dennis from WAPReview went ahead and added some additional data to some … Continue reading →

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NFC for Mobile Payments

Posted on October 21, 2007 by miker

Enrique posted his slides about “NFC in Mobile Commerce” from the Texas Wireless Summit. It’s an excellent overview of the technologies, but what I’m always more concerned about is the backend billing infrastructure. How are the transactions going to be … Continue reading →

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Mobile Portals

Posted on October 19, 2007 by miker

This is something that was mentioned at Mobile 2.0 a few times as well: there should be a mobile portal of the same form as the early Yahoo directory when it was still pages of links. We’ve been working on … Continue reading →

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OpenMoko on Existing Hardware

Posted on October 18, 2007 by miker

Something I hadn’t realized until I went to a presentation last week was that OpenMoko is up and running to varying degrees on hardware other than the Neo1973, including the Treo 650. Cool, I think I have one of those … Continue reading →

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