Posts in mobile Category

Sep 28, 2011

Reinventing The Wheel With Tizen?

It looks like Meego will soon be abandoned to move over to Tizen development. Meego is an open source OS for mobile devices. Tizen aims to be an open source OS for mobile devices. [Continue]

Sep 27, 2010

Indian Tablet Can Be A Good Vehicle For Open Source

I came across the announcement for tablet by India today. This faintly reminds me of the Rs. 500 laptop idea. [Continue]

Aug 13, 2010

NanoGanesh – Called Jugaad In India, Innovation Elsewhere

I was quite impressed by NanoGanesh – a GSM mobile based remote control system for water pumps. But more so after I read how it came about. This is a classic example of jugaad, where you reuse existing resources in a new way instead of creating something new altogether. [Continue]

Apr 17, 2010

Touch Screens, Not For Me

I have been using a variety of touch screen phones for considerable time now, including their God. It has been a big change. I understand that improvements always cause changes and I wanted to give more time before I could form an opinion on them. [Continue]

Oct 2, 2009

Open Android Alliance To Further Android’s Cause

Though Android is an open source platform, Google adds its proprietary applications when it is rolled out. This is where some of the open source contributors who wanted to provide modified distributions are facing hurdles. So a new alliance has been put together – Open Android Alliance – with an aim to replace all the proprietary applications with open source equivalents. [Continue]

Aug 22, 2009

We Need Standards In The Mobile World

Last week I helped a friend’s father to move his contacts from his Nokia phone to the his new Blackberry device. And it was not a pleasant experience. It involved: Nokia’s PC Suite to import the contacts into the Outlook addressbook Blackberry’s Desktop Manager to import the contacts from Outlook. [Continue]

May 4, 2009

Why 160 Characters

I have always wondered about the reasons behind the length limitation of SMSs, that has been inherited by numerous applications that use it. Mark Milian has an interesting story of how the length came out to be 160 characters. The story highlights that the research conducted to deduce the number, that was sufficient to convey messages, was driven by usability and effectiveness than technology limitations. [Continue]

Apr 2, 2009

Intel Hands Moblin Over To The Linux Foundation

Intel has turned over Moblin, an OS for mobile devices, to the Linux Foundation. Andy Updegrove has a nice round up, and explains why it might be better for Moblin to be governed by a neutral body. As a mobile user, I am waiting for the tight coupling between mobile hardware and mobile software to break. [Continue]

Mar 16, 2009

Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol Will Bring The Voice Web

IBM India has developed the Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP). It reads quite analogous to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which is the underlying protocol for Web today. A sample scenario of voice applications involving a grocery store and a payment gateway is discussed in the paper (PDF). [Continue]

Oct 22, 2008

Android Open Sourced

Google has finally open sourced Android. There was some disappointment when it was announced with opening it up. Hopefully this will lead to some crazy ideas from the followers, and even the rivals. [Continue]