iPhone?

It is apparently getting more and more real now. Business 2.0 runs a story speculating Steve Jobs's next innovative projects. . iPhone, Apple's phone combined with iPod, seems the most interesting one.

We know Motorola will offer cell phones that can directly access iTune service. How about a pure iPod phone from Apple?

It is quite certain communication is going to converge with consumer electronics and computing, the so called "digital convergence". As wireless web has yet to gain momentum due to the form factor constraints of a mobile device, consumer electronics may find its way into a mobile communication device very soon.

History of Mobile Computers

Mobile PC magazine is running an exhaustive history of mobile computers. As it turned out, at the very beginning, "portable" is the word they used for battery powered small computers with CRT monitors. A big leap is the rise of laptops (IBM thinkpad) that came with a LCD.

I am looking forward to a history of mobile handhelds.....

Sir Tim Bernes-Lee: Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet?

I totally agree with Sir Time Bernes-Lee's comment on the trend of web design and how it affects mobile internet (wap, i-mode, etc). (story here: Slashdot | Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet?). Without propoer automatic web page transformation, it is absolutely a pain in the neck to surf normal web pages on a smart phone per se.

Notice that researchers from Microsoft and othersare working hard to design schemes that allow page transformation (from desktop-centric web pages to QCIF phone/pda centric web pages using xhtml, cHTML, or old wml as in WAP). Their basic ideas are eliminating horizontal scrolling with a single column, and using levels of sub-pages for blocks for easy navigation.

My point is, whatever the future web page transformation will be, those flashes, ad-bars, pop-ups, floating windows, and bulky pictures should be removed from both desktop centric pages and mobile centric pages. As a side note, Firefox'a ad-block plug-in works very well on kicking out flashes. Floating windows are its next target.

AMD Launches 64-bit Turion Mobile Processor

/. story |AMD Launches Turion Mobile Processor.
"justforaday writes "Earlier today, AMD launched their Turion mobile processor, which is based on the AMD64 architecture. This is set to compete directly with Intel's Centrino (Pentium-M) line of processors. Chips will initially be clocked between 1.6 and 2.0 GHz. Looks like we should be seeing some nice low-powered 64-bit notebooks in the near future."