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Archive for July, 2008

At mobile forums like this one, there is a lot of talk about the iPhone market size.  The traditional wisdom is: if you want to make money selling mobile apps you have to develop for multiple platforms.
This is because of the fragmented mobile device market of which currently includes 10M iPhones or so.
Looking at only [...]

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In a previous life, I designed software systems for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Among the things I learned was that at mach 2 your UI better be pretty darn responsive. Fighter pilots do not have time to wait for things to load or animate or whatever. In some ways this is true for mobile [...]

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Who will merge my contacts?

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I want one contact list to reference everyone in my social graph.  Is that too much to ask?
Enterprises realize benefits from unified contacts
One of the biggest new areas in enterprise these days is unified communications. These UC systems integrate IM, Mail, Voice, and Video into one unified client.  My current company, Cisco, is a leader [...]

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