Mobile Computing

The Year of the Mobile Computer: Mobile Computers as Personal (Mobile) ...

By Anssi Vanjoki

Imagine the map on the device becoming the user interface for search instead of a text box or search results based on the physical world and augmented by the digital world. Social location also opens up new opportunities for developers and marketers. In this talk, the factors enabling a personalized mobile computer will be presented.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Mobile Design and Development--New from O'Reilly: Practical Techniques for ...

Sebastopol, CA—Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development (O'Reilly, US $34.99) by Brian...

[Publish Date: September 03, 2009]

iPhone, the 'Personal' Computer - Future of the Mobile Web - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Mark Sigal

The iPhone is the first truly 'personal' computer; more personal to its owners than the PC ever was. Talk to iPhone owners (not to mention, the 20M iPod Touch owners), and this truth bubbles to the top again and again.

[Publish Date: September 15, 2009]

Hard Numbers Behind the Current and Coming Mobile Future - Tools of Change ...

By Andrew Savikas

Every year at Web 2.0 Summit, Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker does a fantastic whirlwind tour of economic and technology trends she's watching, and in addition to a terrifying look at the US Income Statement, her presentation this year spent a lot of time looking at mobile trends. Mobile is the next "computer cycle" (think Mainframe, Mini, PC, Internet), and the numbers are just staggering.

[Publish Date: October 20, 2009]

It's in the Bag! The Apple Tablet Computing Device - O'Reilly Radar

By Mark Sigal

In the past 25 years, the 'personal' computing revolution has evolved from tethered (desktop) to luggable (portable) to joined-at-the-hip (mobile). The author argues that the next wave of computing will extend this level of personal attachment to the bag-carrying consumer (think: purses, backpacks and briefcases) when Apple releases it’s much rumored Tablet Computing Device. Read more…

[Publish Date: November 13, 2009]

Open for Social Good: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, ...

By Zaheda Bhorat, Paul Rademacher, Adam Lerer, Gregory Norris

Isn't all open source software for social good anyway? Open Source, Open Standards and Open Data all play a key part in areas that impact us all. Climate Change, Healthcare and Poverty Eradication are some key social issues which benefit from the work of the open community through cloud computing, mobile technologies and Linux.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Speaker: Apratim Purakayastha: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Apratim Purakayastha (known as “AP”) is currently a director of software development for Online Collaboration Services department of the Lotus division. His team is building LotusLive®, a socially centered set of collaboration services delivered in the software-as-a-service model. Before joining the Lotus division, he was a senior manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In his research career, he was active in the field of mobile computing, specifically in the areas of data synchronization, messaging, notification, and context. He is one of the founding contributors to the SyncML data synchronization standard and has contributed to multiple IBM products related to mobile and pervasive computing. He has authored numerous research papers in the field and has been named an IBM Master Inventor for his patents in this area. He joined IBM in 1996 after completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University, USA.

[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]

The Mobile Broadband Era: It's About Messages, Mobility and The Cloud - ...

By Mark Sigal

“Listen to the technology; find out what it is telling you.” – Carver Mead The DOS-era was marked by a certain style of computing. It was primitive, largely devoid of graphics, and for developers, an exercise in scarcity management. In fact, the scarcity mindset was so endemic to the time that it gave rise to the urban legend that Microsoft’s...

[Publish Date: July 21, 2009]

Speaker: Eric Horvitz: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Eric Horvitz is Principal Researcher and Research Area Manager at Microsoft Research and is serving as President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). His interests span theoretical and practical challenges in machine learning and reasoning, decision making under uncertainty, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interaction. His organization at Microsoft Research includes teams doing R&D in machine intelligence, search and retrieval, mobile computing, human-computer interaction, ecommerce, theory, and cryptography. He received his PhD and MD degrees at Stanford University. More information can be found at: http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time) - O'Reilly Radar

By Mark Sigal

The book business is under assault. Book sales have been stagnating for some time, Amazon is the industry's boogeyman, and more terrifying, book publishers have no idea how to market books in a world (largely) devoid of bookstores. Moreover, in the age of the always on, it's fair to ask, do people even still read anymore? Just as it re-envisioned the Media Player, the Mobile Phone and Mobile Computing, Apple is well positioned to reboot the Book with its forthcoming iPad Tablet.

[Publish Date: September 22, 2009]

iPhone Killers, Blackberries and Chicken Parts - O'Reilly Radar

By Mark Sigal

While a steady stream of so-called iPhone Killers are filtering into the market, Apple's momentum continues unabated. Inspired by his own experiences upgrading to the Blackberry Tour, the author ponders why so many solution providers confuse delivering a bunch of 'chicken parts' with producing an actual, living, breathing chicken. BlackBerry Storm, Palm Pre, the G2, and now Droid have all been touted as contenders to the mobile computing crown, yet the iPhone continues to kick butt.

[Publish Date: October 28, 2009]