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Yeah…yeah…it’s early and I didn’t sleep enough yesterday due to an alarm clock mishap at the hotel.
So if you’d like to vote for me on Carnival of the Mobilists, maybe I should provide you with a link this time

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I’m back from California to some good news (more on the trip later.) My recent post “Casual Mobile Snacks for Everyone” has been nominated as post of the month on Carnival of Mobilists. It’s 7am on the west coast and so far I seem to be in the lead by quite a few votes [...]

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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (#33) is hosted by Rudy de Waele of mTrends. For those of you who don’t know Rudy, he recently helped launch Mobile Monday Barcelona which has a smashing series of presenters lined up for its inaugural meeting on July 3rd.
This week’s carnival features yours truly (this is [...]

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Juniper Research has just released a white paper (PDF) on future trends and market opportunities in mobile gaming.
The casual games sector is going to be the market driver, even though it may not be at the leading edge of mobile games technology. Casual games make most use of the inherent advantages of the [...]

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This is probably one of those totally geeky things to worry about but what exactly do we call a directional key-press on a handset?
So you have your typical navi-pad—except not all navi-pads are typical and not all are actually ‘pads.’
My Nokia 6600 has a little 5-way (left/right/up/down + click) joystick, as does my E60. [...]

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I’ve run into a bunch of good mobile-related podcasts and web-casts this month. Many are part of a series and have RSS feeds so I thought i’d pass them on.

Voice of S60 interview with Charlie Schick of Nokia Lifeblog and Series 60 fame (this is a great interview—lots of arcane information about the making [...]

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One of the topics I find the most fascinating in mobile was again in the news yesterday with the imminent arrival of the 2 billion-th GSM subscriber—mostly due to astronomically high subscriber numbers in emerging markets.
“While it took just 12 years for the industry to reach the first billion connections. The second billion has [...]

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Adobe is graciously offering free ‘Flash Lite 1.1 Certified Instructor’ training in San Jose at the end of the month. Bryan and I will be attending so if anyone else is coming and is interested in getting together one evening (or can recommend a good Indian restaurant in the area) do give us a shout.

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