I'm about to go to bed, but noticed that the latest version of Wireless Business & Technology Magazine has been published, and amazingly all the contents are available online. There are some decently detailed stories in there, including this article about adoption of mobile technologies in corporations. It cleanly breaks down the process into 3...

Check it out! I just got this in my email: Dear Russell, Congratulations! You have been accepted as a presenter at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2004 at the Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, California, February 09, 2004 - February 12, 2004. The following proposal has been accepted as a 3 hour tutorial class for the event: "The Joys...

That's the official name of the next version of what's commonly known as JavaScript or ECMAScript. I ran across it because I've been taking a look at Macromedia technology lately and trying to grok a bit about their different tools, etc. and the ActionScript that was introduced in the latest Flash is based on this version of ECMAScript. Note, if...

I've been thinking about mobile email a bit having recently read articles about mobile email's growth, Nokia Access Mobilizer and today Seven's new Katai Office service for KDDI in Japan running on top of Qualcomm's BREW platform (Seven also announced a deal with DoCoMo back in July as well). Though email's been done pretty well on the Blackberry...

I just went through and spent way too much time cleaning up my blog and mobile news links both in my favorites folder and in my aggregator. I figured I would share them with you. First, here's my Mobile News and Blog sites OPML file I just created for sites which support RSS. Here's the links in HTML: 3GPortalAnalysis 3GPortalOpinion...

You know, packing up your technical books is really like storing a bunch of broken promises. "I'm going to learn Symbian programming inside and out!" I said enthusiastically at one point, along with PalmOS... and Python and Cocoon, Weblogic, Java Security, Design Patterns, etc. All of these good intentions starting with a quick trip to the...

If you didn't see it, check out this page from Career Builder. Maybe the dates are messed up, but it looks like yesterday Sun Microsystems opened up 280 jobs across the US, with 191 in Calfornia. Wow, I'm definitely going to apply, though I doubt I'll get far in their HR bureacracy (no BS degree). I'm actually totally gung-ho on their new Java...

Okay, so it took me a day to grok what Jeremy was ranting about yesterday with his RSS-Data idea, but I think I've got the idea now and it's pretty damn neat. He's proposing to embed XML-RPC type data structures into RSS, and at first I was pretty doubtful, as this in my mind is what namespaces are for. We were just talking about this the other...

Wow. Google just slammed Erik. No reasons. No recourse. Just thanks, buh-bye now. Excuse me while I kick a gift-horse in the mouth. First, let me say that Google AdSense really has been a gift. Suddenly all these little sites like mine out there with decent traffic were given an opportunity to capitalize on that traffic by simply pasting in some...

Here's some interesting items for those living here in Spain... I should probably write this in Spanish, but Ana's not here to correct my grammar, so I won't. ;-) First, Hernan from aecomo.org - non profit business organization which connects people and companies in the mobile sector - called me yesterday to touch base and to see if I was going to...

WOW! This morning I saw that Jeremy Allaire had pointed out this new piece of software for our Nokia 3650s called Buzz2Talk which allows your phone to Push To Talk over an internet connection. In other words, VoIP from your mobile phone. Obviously I wanted to try it to see if it worked, and to see if it was compatible with Bluetooth, and to...

Can you believe it? It's not a fake! Mobile Burn has the scoop on the new Nokia 3660/3620. They got the plans from the FCC which has approved the update to my beloved 3650. This pic has been floating around for a bit, but I normally don't pay much attention to the rumor sites because usually they're full of it. Nokia must have leaks the size of...

I was writing up a longish email about my thoughts on Symbian development, when I came to a very clear thought in my head that I haven't really articulated online yet. Symbian needs a runtime! When I say runtime, what I'm talking about is a programmable scripting runtime like VB, Python, Perl, Ruby or maybe a beefed up OPL. I'm not talking about...

Well, it looks like the transition is near for Lotus Notes to move to J2EE. I just read this article about a new IBM platform called Lotus Workspace, which I didn't even know existed. It's a J2EE based back-end service which sits on top of Websphere and provides a bunch of collaboration services which use a relational DB as its repository. These...

I have to admit that I'm a bit guilty of thinking too far ahead when it comes to mobiles. Right now the sweet spot for next generation mobile phones is not anywhere near the smart phones that I'm focusing on, but really its closer to what I call Multimedia Mobiles which are roughly defined as phones with color screens, Java, polyphonic ringtones,...