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The happy escape

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:12:00 +0000

As most of you know already, The Pirate Bay will be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X for 60 million SEK (~$8M). Not that much, if TPB is seen as a hyped IT company, but seen as a purchase of a...

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Location, full circle

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:33:00 +0000

Just a short time after WAP browsers were provided in mobile phones, and even before that via SMS, operators offered “near you” type services that listed (without fancy graphics or maps) e.g. petrol...

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New frontiers

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:25:00 +0000

I’ve updated my LinkedIn profile, as things are a-changing, partly explaining my blogging absence: The biggest change is that I’m co-founder and board member at a new company (yet to be disclosed)...

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Distribution of MIDlets via Kalador/Mobilerated

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Here are some stats and attempts to conclusions gathered from providing mobile applications via mobilerated.com. I can’t give any exact numbers for confidentiality reasons. Big difference in...

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Android, a curiosity to academics

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:59:00 +0000

Is this descriptive of academics’ relation to reality in general? Kind of funny though.

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Robots in movies and reality

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:45:00 +0000

After having seen too many movies about the future and often with robots in (that goes for Terminator – Salvation too), here are a few thoughts about the matter, using reverse argumentation. Let’s...

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The silliness of Twitter, part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:47:00 +0000

Maybe you noticed #squarespace in my previous silliness of Twitter post. There’s a company called Squarespace, so I’m just guessing: Could this be a viral marketing campaign from that company? What...

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Comparison of leading smartphones

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Gizmodo compares iPhone, Palm Pre, HTC G2/Magic and BlackBerry Storm: Gizmodo - Smartphone Buyers Guide: The Best of the Best As competition will be between these phones as well as phones based on...

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Shedding WML once and for all

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:41:00 +0000

Long overdue, the mobile version of the Abiro site has now been completely converted to basic HTML, that should work on all newer phones. The site is still called wap.abiro.com, but I’ve also set up...

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The silliness of Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:56:00 +0000

While testing Android Twitter I noticed: Twitter shows the most used topics (or keywords) among all Twitter feeds, which of course people have taken advantage of to force specific topics to “win”. ...

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Developing applications for Android, part 4

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:00 +0000

The Android Twitter clent is “prototype-ready” now. Still not showing user pictures, nor does any kind of formatting of the timeline text (colors would be nice, for instance), but it sure works, and...

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The singularity and texting plants

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:56:00 +0000

The singularity in terms of IT is the time when computers/machines/gadgets can make better copies of themselves, creating a constant improvement of technology without the aid of human beings. Sounds...

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Sweden Rock Festival and a mobile black hole, part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:48:00 +0000

I added a few photos to Flickr, just to show I was there. They have no other qualities. Dream Theater Finally I’ve seen Dream Theater live, and it was very good (read: f****ng great!!!!!). I’ve seen...

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Sweden Rock Festival and a mobile black hole

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:28:00 +0000

I went to SRF in Norje Sweden to see some of my favorite bands. Neal Morse was the big surprise. Both because I haven’t listened much to his solo albums (he was previously in Spock’s Beard; another...

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Color ebook reader from iRex

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:48:00 +0000

A nice improvement over the few gray shades you get from current E-Ink technology. You don’t need color for vanilla literature, but there’s nothing saying that even literature needs to stay the same...

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First Android phone in Europe

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:39:00 +0000

The first one out is the HTC Magic. Spotted at 3 Sweden, but not yet at 3 UK. 3 Sweden – HTC Magic A really nice phone, slimmer than the G1 as it has no alphanumeric keypad.

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Developing applications for Android, part 3

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:20:00 +0000

We just decided to use my Twitter application as a proof of concept demo for Android application development in a local public forum (Oops!), so I better complete it. Whether I will actually do any...

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Omar Hamoui on entrepreneurship

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:28:00 +0000

Omar Hamoui is the founder of AdMob, the world’s largest mobile ad broker. AdMob was founded in early 2006 and are now over 100 employees. A success no doubt, especially as Google (with its...

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Upcoming Android devices

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:48:00 +0000

Just browsed through Engadget. Not just phones. From Motorola: Motorola's Sawgrass, Android-powered Heron do the vertical slide onto AT&T? From HTC: HTC Lancaster is a QWERTY slider with...

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Developing applications for Android, part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:43:00 +0000

I had the Jitter code and most of the UI ported on Friday, and it all compiled then, but nothing really worked. In part because I ran into a problem with the build path for the project, that took a...

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Developing applications for Android

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:57:00 +0000

Not quite yet in my case, but I’ve read “Hello, Android” (recommended) and gone through most of the examples provided with the book, as well as built and tweaked them to see how stuff work. I’m...

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Sign of the times: Even Smurfs come from China

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:52:00 +0000

Sorry for further lowering the quality of this blog, but I guess I’m too busy to write anything serious and balanced at the moment. I earlier reported about most consumer devices being made in...

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Amazon Kindle DX and ebook evolution

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:42:00 +0000

Updated after reading what this device is all about. Amazon’s Kindle DX is a larger Kindle deriving from the technology in Kindle 2. It’s got a 10” display instead of the 6” on the Kindle 2, has...

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Anecdote: Black holes and … socks

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:20:00 +0000

For what it’s worth, here’s a conversation with a guy who’s slightly more well-versed in astronomy than I am. The mobile angle: “In space, no one can hear you scream … because there’s no coverage.”...

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Really thin TVs

noreply@blogger.com (Anders Borg) — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:17:00 +0000

And I mean sub-mm thin. Sony and others will release large displays based on OLED technology where the display layer is just 0.3 mm and the whole kit with a protecting layer etc is 0.9 mm. Display...

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