I have been a great fan of Second Life for a very long time. A few months ago I almost quitted since it was starting to become boring and quite repetitive.
Vollee Inc., a company with offices in the United States and Israel has anounced a Second Life viewer for Symbian enabled mobile phones. This is [...]

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Very low blog posting in the last few weeks. Several reasons, no excuse.
Anyway in the recent past I have notice a few blogs and forums linking here because I decided a long time ago to remove the “nofollow” attribute in .Dust comments.
At the time I was thinking it was a very good reward for those [...]

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I came through a short, but interesting, post from Simon Judge over at Mobile Phone Development.
Simon makes a very good point. When you have a brilliant idea for a mobile service you may find yourself engaging so many partners asking for slices of the pie that makes the whole service not appealing for each of [...]

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After accelerometer technology made its appearance to the masses it seems that every mobile phone manufacturer is rushing to put the very same bit of hardware in their mobile phones.
There a lot of applications that can make use of the accelerometer to increase the usability of the products or services and there also some very [...]

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Just Say No to Fragmentation (and to JSR-324)
This is a very interesting article that details a great approach to reduce fragmentation in mobile device application development
(tags: mobile mobile-phone j2me java java-me fragmentation)

Ericsson: JavaOne: Taking mobile application development out of the niche
Interesting point of view on why mobile application dvelopment is still a niche.
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You will be able to access Skype services while you are hitting the road without having to be a 3 customer in Europe or firing up your laptop in a WiFi covered area You will finally be free from you mobile phone plan and you will be able to talk and chat for free forever! … (Well on some mobile phones it will be possible but they are a few) This means that you will always need to have your application running in the foreground consuming battery power at a much faster rate compared to the idle state.

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As many blogs have already reported Google has just launched the App Engine project.

In a few words, Google App Engine will let you build a full stack and automatically scalable web application hosted on their premises.
This is what Google is saying about the project:
Today we’re announcing a preview release of Google App Engine, an application-hosting [...]

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Yesterday night I was sitting on the sofa reading the March issue of the wired magazine.
One of the most interesting article was one titled “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business“.
Citing the article, this is an interesting passage:
Forty years ago, Caltech professor Carver Mead identified the corollary to Moore’s law of ever-increasing computing power. [...]

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When I look at how people use their mobile phone I always end up with the very same conclusion.
We tend to look at things with our eyes and not really with the eyes of your customers. Having a quick look at who is sitting near to me I find a bunch of tech savvy, marketing [...]

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I have been playing a lot with the iPhone and I actively read anything that talks about it. Well, actually I try to read as much as possible on the mobile phone industry. At the end of day it is part of my job.
I think we can say that the iPhone has been a breakthrough [...]

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Wine making is one of the finest art in the world. Even if technological revolution has reached also this segment of the market the principles of wine making have been the same for centuries.
Italy has always played a huge role in this market and it seems that the Caporali family in Tuscany has found a [...]

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While I go through my list of RSS subscriptions I always find ‘unboxing’ posts and I always find those posts very strange to me.
Is it a form of geek porn, a ritual of an unknown pagan religion or what?
Could someone who read this from the United States what do they find so cool in unboxing [...]

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Main Page - MobileDesign
Very interesting wiki on Mobile UI Design

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I have recently attended an event where an Italian venture capitalist was presenting his company.
The main goal of the venue was to explain the main principles of the venture capitalist business.
I was expecting something exciting in the presentation itself. I understand the finance may not be the funniest argument in the Universe but whatever the [...]

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