First printer in a computing grid?
Apr 22, 2008 Uncategorized
My friend Diego Mariño has announced in his blog that they have succesfully connected a printer to a computing grid. Think in Grid is a startup from Barcelona with an innovative Grid computing framework. They claim to be able to integrate all kind of devices in a computing grid, just like this printer:Coming from the [...]
Tags: business, development, embedded, grid, M2M
The ball and chain of iPhone was not Java: it’s Google Android
Nov 12, 2007 Uncategorized
Sometimes you only need to wait to understand why things happen. When Steve Jobs said ‘Java is not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain’, we were surprised and disappointed because like me a lot of people think that there is still room for Java in the mobile [...]
Tags: architecture, development, embedded, google, gphone, iphone, java, linux, mobile
Palm Foleo cancelled just before shipping
Sep 4, 2007 Uncategorized
I was astonished when I read that Palm cancels Foleo just before starting to ship it. The reason sounds like an excuse: ‘…it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform[WindRiver] design and a single focus for our platform development efforts.‘There were [...]
Google Phone OS Java based?
Sep 4, 2007 Uncategorized
I have just read this post in Engadget about rumours of the Google Phone. I will highlight this: ‘…the phone will run on a Linux variant (which is nothing new), and will be Java Virtual Machine-capable. Additionally, the OS of the phone will be Java-based (as well as the all phone apps itself), and performance [...]
Tags: .net, embedded, google, gphone, iphone, java, linux, microsoft
Bad times for J2ME. How the iPhone with Web 2.0 apps can rule in the mobile world
Aug 22, 2007 Uncategorized
The day Steve Jobs said ‘Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain’ . Being a Java Zealot as I am, I should find easily a fist full of arguments, but may be he is right. I have been working in the embedded and mobile world for [...]
Tags: architecture, designs, embedded, enterprise, iphone, java, mobile
Is this the new Fon Liberator?
Jan 21, 2007 Uncategorized
Looking for information on how to configure the Chillispot in my Soekris net4521 with Voyage Linux, the people from Poblete Wireless has blogged about a device that looks very similar to ‘La Fonera’, POBLETEWIRELESS: �Es esto el posible Fon Liberator?. The device has been developed by Accton, and you can check the specs here.
The killer app of FON will be access to P2P networks
Jan 14, 2007 Uncategorized
I have been tracking FON for two years, and I’m a ‘fonero’ since last summer. Recently I read about the ‘FON Liberator’ project, and it seems that finally the mystery of FON is over. If you analyze seriously the business model of this company and you have some basic knowledge about wireless networks, you easily [...]
Tags: embedded, fon, fun, hackers, hobbist, linux, nokia, upnp
