Archive for October, 2008
14.10.2008 | 13:35

The Internet of Things… almost there

Press release: Atmel, Cisco and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Collaborate to Support a Future Where Any Device Can Be Connected to the Internet Atmel® Corporation, Cisco and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) today announced the availability of uIPv6, one of the ...
14.10.2008 | 13:29

Cloud computing is crap but not for Washington DC

ReadWriteWeb: Google Apps Unseats Incumbent Microsoft Office in Washington, DC (via mfavez on twitter) [...] Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, has decided to switch the District's 38,000 employees from the installed Microsoft Office suite to the Web-based Google...
14.10.2008 | 09:26

1.5 Million G1-Android Pre-Sold

1.5 Million G1 Mobile Phones Pre-Sold: The G1 won’t officially be available until October 22. [...] Reports are in that up to 1.5 million G1 devices have been pre-sold and you can bet that more will be coming in. With that, Motorola is building a 350-persons Android team and Nokia is also a...
08.10.2008 | 17:17

Mobile web app vs native app, an example

Mobile web app vs. native app Twitterific is one of the well known application in the app store for Twitter on iPhone. I installed it and used it for a while until I recently found out about Hahlo, a web based mobile client for Twitter. Awesome!! When using both you do not see which one is web ba...
07.10.2008 | 11:04

2nd Mobile Monday Switzerland: Mobile payment

I attended last night the 2nd Mobile Monday Switzerland hosted at EPFL. Topic was about Mobile Payment. More than fifty persons (out of 70 "subscribers" to Momo Swiss) were attending this session which is less than in other part of the world but not so bad for a 2nd edition in Switzerland. Mainly bu...
03.10.2008 | 09:04

Mobile web app vs. native app

From Wapreview: Mobile Browser Based Applications Two requirements need to be met before browser based technologies are capable being a general replacement for applications: 1. They need to be functional offline. The ability to edit a document can't depend on the availability of a network signa...
03.10.2008 | 09:00

4 things I do not like about my iPhone

Image courtesy of "blonde inside"... made me laugh, but seriously here are things I do not really understand... ...
03.10.2008 | 08:03

Picking a SSID and Network Magic

I bought a new wireless router at home. working for Cisco I bought a Linksys one of course. At some point I had to choose a SSID name for my wireless network. I used my cell phone number as the SSID, thinking that if someone wants to connect he can call me and I will give out the password... At the...
02.10.2008 | 21:36

Apple app store sucks (bis)

Russell Beattie: The iPhone Crapp Store? From the descriptions of most of them [read: applications], I'd say there's a ton of unmitigated crud flowing into the App Store right now. You don't read about it because the iPhone is all shiny and new, but with all those apps arriving daily the quality ...