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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:53 AM

Managing APN Settings on Google Android

An APN (Access Point Name) is the information needed to establish a GPRS/EDGE/UMTS cellular packet data connection on a mobile device. Usually the device can be configured by the operator, the OEM, and users with an APN address such as wap.cingular or
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Sunday, October 04, 2009 2:24 PM

Mobile Service Innovations In Developing Countries

Check out the latest special report on mobile marvels by Economist . For many of the people in Kenya who don't have a bank card and a named address, mobile phones are increasingly becoming an indispensable part of day-to-day life. Farmers in Uganda are
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:03 PM

ConnectivityManager in Android SDK: Compared with Connection Manager in Windows Mobile

Anyone who has ever used Windows Mobile (actually WinCE) Connection Manager will probably share mix feelings: on one side, the ConnMgr APIs provide a nice abstraction for applications to request and use a connection without knowing and controlling the
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 5:12 PM

"Wireless Networking Complete" Book Published!

I was told by my dear friends at Elsevier (formerly Morgan Kaufmann publishers ) that the book " Wireless Networking Complete " has been published! This book is a desktop reference covering everything about wireless networking, mainly from R&D perspective.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:03 AM

Microsoft OneApp: A Could-Enabled App Framework for J2ME

The latest announcement of Microsoft OneApp does create some buzz in the mobile device community. Just to be clear, based on limited information Microsoft made available to the public, OneApp is a Java application for feature phones that provides a framework
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:01 AM

Building a WAP Push Test Environment

For smart phone OEMs, it is generally difficult to test WAP Push and OMA OTA provisioning without having access to operator's testing facility. When operators or customers report issues related to SI (Service Indication) or SL (Service Loading) message
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:25 AM

3rd Party Software Integration: What Quality Gates are Needed?

One of the key phases for a mobile device project is 3rd party software integration, which is usually done after initial software baseline has been established (BSP migration complete, driver stabilized, hopper & battery life pass). According to device
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Friday, August 14, 2009 2:45 PM

Windows CE Storage Manager Breakdown

The best architectural pictures for Windows CE / Windows Mobile Storage Manager are the followings (from msdn site ): Now, if you look at the following call stack on a WM6.5 device emulator (CE5), the above picture is much easier to understand: Call Stack:
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:37 AM

Using Power Monitor to Tackle Battery Life Problems: Examples

Power monitor (made by Monsoon solutions) is a very useful to improve device battery life. I think every OEM/ODM engineering team should have on handy to watch and troubleshoot battery life issues. Even better, bring the power monitor with your devices
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Sunday, August 09, 2009 3:26 PM

Windows Mobile Device DRM Integration

Many devices today provide an OMA DRM 1.x/2.0 solution from a 3rd party (for example, from irdeto ). So how to verify if the integration has been properly done? Well, aside from the tests that your vendor performed, you can also use the following site
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Friday, August 07, 2009 4:49 PM

DirectShow Tool GraphEdt on Windows Mobile

On Windows and Windows CE, the GraphEdt tool can be used to investigate (visually) what DShow filters are used for a given media file, and it is also very useful to verify if your filters work as expected. For desktop Windows, this tool is included in
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:48 PM

Recommended China IT Web Links

Like anyone who is looking to ride the wave of China's booming economy, I always want to know what are the hot topics and technological trends in its mobile wireless industry and IT industry. Below is a list of links I use to keep me updated. http://www.cctime.com
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Monday, June 29, 2009 1:39 PM

Mobile 2.0 - Critical Issues and Why Japan and Korea are the Mobile Time Machines

I came across a great presentation deck on " Mobile 2.0 " written by Gerhard Fasol , CEO of Eurotechnology Japan K. K. In the presentation, Gerhard shared his insight into next generation mobile services and four critical issues, Platforms, Business Models,
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:34 AM

Best Client Apps of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Picassa for Windows Mobile

Here is the outcome of my little research... Best Twitter Client for Windows Mobile PocketTwit --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Facebook Client
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:11 PM

Twitter-Fanfou, Omegle-LuGuoDe, and ppstream ...

Twitter: Fanfou (饭否) Omegle : Luguode (路过的) LinkedIn: Wealink Facebook: KaiXin (开心) For every popular social networking site in the US, several Chinese copycats have been created--the idea was adopted, but the business model and user experience are often
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