palmsolo’s personal blog

Leaving Las Vegas,
originally uploaded by palmsolo.

It was a crazy couple of days at CES 2010 in Vegas and I wish I had more
time to wander the show floor. Here are my two favorite devices, the N900
and Nexus One.

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It was a rare occasion when Dayna and I went out for New Year’s Eve
Welcome to 2010,
originally uploaded by palmsolo.

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I am now back home and spent all weekend hanging with my family after being gone for a week. If you haven’t checked out my many posts from the Mobile World Congress then you may want to head on over to my ZDNet blog and check some of them out. I had a chance to [...]

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I had a very long 2 days getting here to Barcelona, but I arrived safely. I was blessed to be invited on this trip by Nokia and will/be spending the first 2 days with Nokia folks. They gave each of us (there are about 8 of us) a Nokia N810 to try out and I [...]

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I met Stephen Johnson at the beginning of the conference, after introductions, and learned he worked in Spokane for Olive Tree Bible Software. His presentation was taking place in room 1, which was primarily for the very techy people such as developers, but since he was talking about mobile then I made it a point [...]

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Drew Haninger was the presenter for the next session I attended that was the first one fully focused on mobile devices. Drew is the president of Olive Tree Bible Software and began by talking about their goal at the company. He presented the very crowded mobile landscape and I am sure that surprised many who [...]

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The third session I attended was led by members of the American Bible Society and began by describing more about the OSIS Initiative. Four thoughts on why to use OSIS were:

Permanence: It is independent of hardware and software
Portability: The OSIS-XML format can be used across platforms, including mobile devices
Process: Again the open format can be [...]

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