Category Archives: Community

Events, gatherings, discussions

Mobile Payments Proliferation

I’m seeing more and more mobile payments systems getting used in actual products. Stuff like Zong, Paymo and Mobillcash. Surprisingly enough, the places I’m hearing about systems like this being used are in social games (for example social applications using … Continue reading

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The Subjective Meaning of "Platform Maturity"

I posted yesterday about wanting to use my phone to publish my location in realtime, and I got a bunch of fantastic responses both in the comments and as emails (thanks folks!) I fooled around with some of them with … Continue reading

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Symbian Malware – Signed

I saw some random references to something called Sexy View, malware aimed at Nokia devices. I was just going to ignore it, but then I realized it appears to be a signed application. Delicious. If nothing else that should allow … Continue reading

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Misleading Numbers

I found the conclusions based on these numbers quite amusing. Anyone else spot the flaw in the logic that because folks on DeviceAnywhere spend more time testing on the Razr that means that developers are focusing their efforts more on … Continue reading

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Converting to Open Source

I went to the Symbian Partner Event yesterday, and then grabbed some dinner with a bunch of folks from Symbian and Nokia afterward. Most of what I was interested in hearing about was how they plan to convert to open … Continue reading

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Is Mobile Really Global?

One of the most common reactions that “mobile experts” have when new converts start waxing poetic about the iPhone is that the iPhone is just a niche device. “It’s only really popular in the US, you need to start thinking … Continue reading

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Under the Radar on Nov 12th

At Mobile 2.0 Rudy reminded me that he’s helping to judge the Under the Radar conference again this year. And he encouraged me to come of course, cause I’ve been hiding under a rock for months and that’s unhealthy. He’s … Continue reading

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Mobile 2.0 Event on Nov 3rd in San Francisco

The topics and schedule are now posted for the 2008 Mobile 2.0 event in San Francisco. We’ve separated out a “Builder Track” in the afternoon with presentations more suited to engineering/technical/design folks, and have an all day long Business track … Continue reading

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Rejiggered the Whatchamacallit

I hadn’t posted for a while, and then when I tried to found that my WordPress admin interface was all screwy. Probably something I did, but I’m not sure what. And it’s languished for a few weeks while I was … Continue reading

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At MobileBeat on Thursday

Gregory and Matt invited me to participate in a developer focused pre-event session on Thursday right before MobileBeat 2008 kicks off. The session is going to focus on the evolution of mobile operating systems and services platforms. It should be … Continue reading

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