How should Mobile projects be to survive?
Apr 16, 2008 Uncategorized
Yesterday we discover that Mowser, the project founded by famous blogger Russell Beattie (and former colleague) was in the deadpool. Russ claimed that he ran out of money and had serious trouble with his finances.Everyday startups are created and abandoned, but the point in this story is that he could not raise funds to continue [...]
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 [...]
GPay: Google Patent for Mobile micropayments
Sep 3, 2007 Uncategorized
Today in several RSS feeds I have found the same news: Google has a new patent for mobile micropayments. Micropayments using a cell phone is not new at all. I have seen some projects in Europe, specially the Spanish Mobipay. It’s a mature technology, but it’s not very successful. There are several reasons but it’s [...]
Tags: business, enterprise, google, micropayment, mobile
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
Ultra Mobile Devices war is coming
Jun 7, 2007 Uncategorized
Last week Palm announced a new Ultra Mobile Device (UMD) called ‘Foleo‘. This week Via has announced a new UMD reference design called Nanobook and Asus has unveiled an 3ePC, ultra low cost laptop . They are different races: Foleo is ARM-based with a limited amount of memory, Nanobook and 3ePC are x86-based. Nanobook uses [...]
Tags: enterprise, linux, mobile
Meraki: Mesh networks can kill Wimax
Apr 19, 2007 Uncategorized
One of the most interesting technologies to come are mesh networks. In Amplia we are making some prospects on these technology applied to the M2M (machine to machine) communication. Zigbee fits perfectly for small amount of data, but it’s not good when dealing with mobile communications (PDAs, laptops, MP3 players… anything interactive and portable).The only [...]
Tags: architecture, enterprise, google, M2M, mesh, mobile, wimax
New Amplia’s Blog about Wireless M2M
Feb 9, 2007 Uncategorized
Now that the 3GSM is going to start next week in Barcelona, we have launched our new Wireless M2M Blog. We hope to contribute with some interesting stuff regarding M2M business and services.Rafael Morillo (our Business Development Manager) will be the main contributor to the Blog, but I hope to help him with my techie [...]
Tags: enterprise, M2M, management, mobile
