Nokia: Running in molasses

Every time I think about Nokia and Symbian, I can't help picturing a man knee-deep in molasses, running as fast as he can. He's wor...

Proposition 8 and community review sites: Everyone loses

What happens to a community review site when members of the community use it as a weapon against people they don't approve of? Sites li...

Mobile data: Be careful what you wish for

The consensus around the industry seems to be that mobile data is starting to take off. Text messaging is still the leading data function, ...

The Influencers are dead. Or not.

As we continue to sort through the results from Rubicon's recent research on Internet usage ( link ), we're finding interesting insi...

Everything you always wanted to know about web community, and then some

It's been a long time since I posted, and I apologize. In addition to doing a bunch of work for clients at Rubicon, I have been preoccu...

Hung Threads with BO SDK - Solution

Many developers seem to be facing the dreaded 'Hung threads' issue when they you the BO SDK in their java applications. The symptoms...

Nokia 3210/5110/6110

To view IMEI number *#06# To view Software Version enter *#0000# To view Status of Sim Clock Stop. Enter *#746025625# *#92702689# offers you...

App stores and APIs: It's the ecosystem, stupid

If you make a web application or mobile platform, one of the trendiest things you can do is add APIs and a software marketplace to it so dev...

Conference time

I'll be doing the Grande Tour des Conferences in the San Francisco area next week. Let me know if you'll be in town and want to me...

Install and configure CVS on Solaris 10

Download the appropriate binary from http://www.nongnu.org/cvs # create a "cvs" user. This user will be used to impersonate cvs...

Does anybody really know what smartphone market share is?

An article in Wired online this week had a chart showing US smartphone market share ( link ). The chart gave more detail than I've seen...

Improve windows networking (especially if hosting webservers)

First of all, I forgive you for having to use windows to host your web server :) Now that thats out of the way, here's how you speed up...

Only 10% of Japanese people know how to use all the functions in their mobile phones

A Japanese survey of mobile phone users, translated by What Japan Thinks, reports that only about 10% of Japanese mobile phone users say the...

SSH Port Forwarding, X11 fowarding, RDP tunneling and much more

The only firewall port you'll ever need opened - PORT 22 SSH Tunneling/Port Forwarding Pre requisites: 1. Putty (or an equally good s...

WebSphere Process Server - File Adapter errors

Once you deploy a mediation module containing a file adapter on a websphere process server and turn on global security, things start going b...

Hypenotized by Apple

Watching the cloud of hype around last week's release of the new iPhone, I was struck by the way Apple's psychological influence ove...

Update files in .war and .ear directly

I have seen many applications (.war and .ear) that have their property files or resource bundles stored within the .war or .ear files. When ...

The end of the dream

No matter how it works out in the long run, the purchase of Symbian by Nokia marks the end of a dream -- the creation of a new independent O...

Symbian changes everything, and nothing

[With a correction made on June 26.] The Symbian Foundation announcement today is a fascinating change in business strategy, but I'm no...