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Upwardly Mobile, Part 2: Your First Windows Mobile 6 Application

April 16, 2009

(In case you missed part 1, it’s here. Be warned; it’s long, but it’s a good read.)
In this installment of Upwardly Mobile, I’m going to give you a quick introduction to developing applications for Windows Mobile 6 phones and handheld devices. I can’t cover all aspects of Windows Mobile development in this article, but there [...]

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Upwardly Mobile, Part 1: A Brief Tour of Mobile App Development

April 13, 2009

This one’s a long one! You might want to get yourself a beverage or snack.

This week is Windows Mobile Incubation Week, a “jam session” taking place at The Empire’s Silicon Valley branch, where startups are invited to learn about Windows Mobile from Microsoft’s gurus and pick up some tricks from mobile industry gurus and venture [...]

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Windows Mobile Gets Widgets!

March 10, 2009

This article originally appeared in Canadian Developer Connection.
There’s been quite a bit of good news on the Windows Mobile front lately. First, there’s the considerably improved user interface coming with Windows 6.5, including the “hexagon” menu (the rationale for which is explained quite well by Long Zheng). There’s also the upcoming Mobile Incubation Week, where [...]

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Windows Mobile Incubation Week: April 13 – 17 in Mountain View

March 9, 2009

I’ve written before that the current state of Windows Mobile makes me feel sad, and I’ve also written that recent developments like the new hexagon interface for the upcoming version 6.5 have given me reason to hope. Here’s another sign that The Empire is getting their mobile act together: TechFlash has a story about [...]

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More Thoughts on Windows Whatever-it-is-That-Runs-on-Phones

February 16, 2009

The Developer Angle

In case you don’t recognize the photo on the right, it’s the “Sad Darth Vader” photo from my earlier article titled This is How the Current State of Windows Mobile Makes Me Feel. I posted it in response to The Empire’s seemingly directionless efforts with its phone platform, Windows Mobile. Or, as it’s [...]

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This is How the Current State of Windows Mobile Makes Me Feel

February 11, 2009
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Cheap as in Crap

December 4, 2008

Just over a year ago, I quipped that Acer – the world’s most successful vendor of slightly sub-par but very cheap computer hardware – didn’t have any more sub-par vendors to buy after acquiring Gateway and the dreaded Packard Bell (which I prefer to call “Taco Bell” since both offer dirt cheap products yielding [...]

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Is Canada Becoming a Digital Ghetto?

November 27, 2008

Over at CBC’s Search Engine, Jesse Brown asks an important question: Is Canada Becoming a Digital Ghetto? I’m reproducing the article in its entirety below.

Here are three things that suck about being Canadian right now:

Last week the CRTC sided with Bell against a group of small Internet Service Providers who want to offer their [...]

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GeoSocial Meetup: Thursday November 6th at the Charlotte Room, Toronto

November 3, 2008

The folks from PlanetEye — the travel-planning site whose motto is “Discover destinations. Plan trips. Share experiences” — are hosting a GeoSocial this Thursday, November 6th at 6:30 p.m. at the Charlotte Room (19 Charlotte Street, Toronto, not far from the corner of King and Spadina).
GeoSocial?
Organized by PlanetEye’s Mark Evans and Juan Gonzalez, a GeoSocial [...]

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Apple Drops iPhone NDA

October 2, 2008

Image from Wikimedia Commons.
On the off-chance you hadn’t yet heard, Apple has finally dropped its much-reviled NDA for iPhone developers for released software. It was so restrictive that developers were forbidden from discussing or writing documentation on iPhone development, even with or for other iPhone developers.
In the announcement on Apple Developer Connection, they explain why [...]

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The Funniest “Unboxing” Video I’ve Seen

August 27, 2008

This one’s for the Samsung Omnia (a.k.a. the i900):

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Cellphone Tracking Study Says We’re Creatures of Habit

June 6, 2008

“New research that makes creative use of sensitive location-tracking data from 100,000 cellphones in Europe suggests that most people can be found in one of just a few locations at any time, and that they do not generally go far from home.” I think we sort of knew this already, but it’s nice to get [...]

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Rogers to Offer iPhone in Canada

April 29, 2008

It’s official: Rogers will be offering the iPhone in Canada. No word on whether they’re going to lower their ridiculous mobile data rates to reasonable levels.

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Palestinian Girls, Dating and the Mobile Phone

April 16, 2008

Palestinian Girls, Dating and the Mobile Phone: danah boyd points to a paper titled Playing With Fire: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel [PDF, 92K]. It looks at how mobile phone alters social dynamics, relationships, and the construction of gender in Palestine, where “boys give their girlfriends phones [...]

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