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		<title>US 7,751,431</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is one type of junk mail I don&#8217;t mind seeing in my postal inbox.  Whenever the US Patent Office grants a patent, all kinds of opportunists from the awards, personalization, and engraving industry spam the inventors with offers of beautiful plaques engraved with the patent&#8217;s front page. I was happy to experience this junk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2010/09/02/us-7751431/</link>
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		<title>Google IO 2010 &#8211; Trip Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I attended the Google IO 2010 Conference in San Francisco along with my colleague Dr. Hans Dulimarta. The conference is Google’s annual developer&#8217;s conference where the company announces their new product initiatives and also offer in-depth sessions on various Google technology platforms. The event attracted a sell-out audience of over 5,000 technologists from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2010/06/03/google-io-2010-trip-report/</link>
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		<title>Prezi, zooming user interfaces, and PowerPoint relief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago one of my students (John Spencer) introduced me to Jef Raskin&#8217;s book &#8220;The Humane Interface&#8220;. While I have yet to read the book cover to cover, it&#8217;s got some interesting ideas in it including the notion of a &#8220;zooming user interface&#8221; or &#8220;ZUI&#8221;. Independent of John&#8217;s suggestion, another friend of mine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2010/03/18/prezi-zooming-user-interfaces-and-powerpoint-relief/</link>
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		<title>5 Interesting Features for Retail/Hospitality Mobile Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every mobile application targeting a retail or hospitality use case seems to have the obvious features: finding business locations, contact information, product/offering information, and in some cases user reviews/ratings of what&#8217;s being offered.  These apps amount in many ways to a repackaging of the merchant&#8217;s existing website as a native application for the iPhone or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/12/14/5-interesting-features-for-retailhospitality-mobile-apps/</link>
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		<title>GVSU&#8217;s fabulous skyline is getting even better!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I recently returned to my roots here at GVSU, I not only had to an assimilate an amazingly altered campus from what I left behind back in 1988, but I also had to get accustomed to the fact that GVSU now sprawls across the entire W. Michigan area. In addition to the main Allendale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/11/13/gvsus-fabulous-skyline-is-getting-even-better/</link>
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		<title>Must follow twitter lists for you mobile junkies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new &#8220;list&#8221; feature on Twitter is fantastic!  Basically, twitter follow lists lets you the user organize your twitter friends into meaningful lists to share with others.  This morning I started organizing various lists relating to mobile technology that I thought would be of interest to others.  So far, I&#8217;ve put together the following lists: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/11/04/must-follow-twitter-lists-for-you-mobile-junkies/</link>
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		<title>Do mobile app stores have a future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I came across this interesting and well-written article on the current state of affairs with regard to mobile app stores.   I think the author&#8217;s forward looking comments are reasonable if you limit your outlook to a year or two,  but there are a couple of things to consider with regard to app stores [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/10/30/do-mobile-app-stores-have-a-future/</link>
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		<title>Mobile testing madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a couple of interesting videos this week that are worth taking a look at. The first one is about testing mobile application. So if you have an app that targets a multiplicity of handsets, all with different form factors, technical specs, and service providers, how can you go about testing your apps? Its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/10/16/mobile-testing-madness/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s raining Androids!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today its not uncommon to run into people who think of human-like robots when you start talking about Android, rather than Google&#8217;s cool new mobile phone platform. This is likely to change dramatically between now and Christmas, at least here in the USA. In the past month a number of manufacturers and carriers have announced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/10/12/its-raining-androids/</link>
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		<title>My screencasting experiment&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This semester I&#8217;m teaching an undergraduate CS course that has a weekly two hour lab session. Instead of going the traditional route of making up 4-5 programming assignments and assigning them over the course of the semester, I wanted to try and create a set of weekly labs that encourage the students to tinker and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/10/05/my-screencasting-experiment/</link>
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