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Palm WebOS

The fact the Palm has taken a radical turn, redesigned their mobile platform around access to the web and development around web technologies, and is releasing a new device based on it in the first half of this year are … Continue reading

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Shim Services

I’ve been sick for the last few days. Perfect time to put a bit of a dent in that ever-growing pile of unread books next to my bed! Which I began doing without hesitation, until I kept running into cross-references … Continue reading

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Continuing Symbian Signed Conversation

One of the points I was harping on at and around the Symbian Partner conf were my perceived issued with the Symbian Signed effort. As a developer I get no benefit out of the initiative, but I’ve commonly felt some … 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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Small Systems FTW!!

I had heard that there was a great presentation floating around by Steve Yegge about dynamic languages, virtual machines, and optimization. And I forget what got it in front of me, but yesterday I hit the transcript of the talk, … 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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