Mobile Hack-A-Thon! Paintball App Wins!

At the 2011 AT&T-sponsored Mobile Hack-A-Thon, a team of high school students from Redmond and Kirkland won first place for their Windows Mobile game. Thanks to Clive Boulton for the photo of the winners.  Yes, the high schoolers, only high school team entered, beat the olds. The app was a mobile paintball game - a point and shoot game using image recognition to get a bead on valid targets the... [Read more]

Apple WWDC Keynotes: What Apple Thinks are the Races to Win

[Selected post on Carnival of Mobilists] At the Apple Developer’s conference, the centerpiece was the iCloud. Apple wanted to be essential for every sort of communication or media with their devices. Now it wants un-tether from being tied to a device (an Apple one, of course.) It wants to iCloud to be your state of current content and even your app’s current state as you can move in an... [Read more]

Tips from Google I/O 2011

The Big Haul...Swag is very important to me. I’m still trying to get over not getting a tablet. And a hotspot with 3 months free service. And a ChromeBook…. But I got some great swag from an event at Google in Kirkland WA. I got a green plushie for one thing. A bunch of folks met and discussed the conference this evening, and here are the notes I passed around. There’s a listing... [Read more]

Windows Phone 7: Can it Rise?

[Selected post on Carnival of Mobilists] Is it possible that Windows Phone 7 can take a competitive slice of the smartphone market - now dominated by iPhone, Android, and Blackberry? It’s possible, but Microsoft will need to do a full court press. The first thing to consider is: are there people out there who are not fully committed to a smartphone experience? In other words, not on team iPhone... [Read more]

Katie Couric is in Your Mobiles

The Katie Couric App Platform. Move over iPhone and Android: there’s a new mobile platform in town. Katie Couric is storming toward media domination launching her own mobile platform for apps. You see, at CBS, you can have your iPhone apps, your Android apps, your Blackberry apps, and then…your Katie Couric apps. She forced CBS to put her new mobile platform on their web site! The Katie... [Read more]

Let’s think About This….iPads in the Military

[Selected post on Carnival of Mobilists] Recently, I read about the military considering deploying iPads in the field. Soldiers love their iPods. But then, I guess if Al-Qaeda used a common browser plugin for content that the iPad didn’t support, intelligence would be pretty much up the creek. They’d be the non-universal soldier. Al-Qaeda would have an engima machine. And imagine if they... [Read more]

This is What Success Looks Like

Ada Lady Ada day rolls around once a year and reminds us to think about Ada’s contributions to technology and women in technology. I took a pledge to blog, celebrating the day. It’s cool to note that women inspire, make great inventions and creations and question and push the world forward: they always have. Whenever people doubt that, and believe that women have just crotcheted on the... [Read more]

The Future is Liquid and I Want It - Exciting Devices

The Japanese are living our future. At CEATEC, the annual Japan high tech show, they tease us with it. Take a look at the Fujitsu concept phone from CEATEC 2009: the Ameboa. It looks like a piece of crystal and changes its display to a keyboard to an internet browser to controls. There are buttons on four sides of the phone to change modes. Apparently Fijitsu’s been experimenting with liquid... [Read more]

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