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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. Feature phones are mobile phones with extra features.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. Johnson, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Surveys Volume 34 Issue 3, September 2002. Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I had to setup a week of talks by all the relevant product teams, with a hundred or so of the most experienced systems engineers from all over the world as an audience. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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