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Barbara Ballard

Barbara Ballard is founder and principal of Little Springs Design, Inc., a consulting company specializing in the user-centered design of mobile devices, their services, and their software. Before starting LSDI, she worked on ideation, product concept evaluation, and usability engineering for Sprint PCS products, most notably Wireless Web and various handsets, and coauthored the Sprint PCS HDML and WML Style Guides.

Java ME Is Dead, Long Live Java ME

By Barbara Ballard

4 of our 6 first quarter projects have major components in Java ME. These are new applications, from companies who understand the porting issues and the complexities. This quarter is not particularly different from other quarters: we get far more work designing ...

Feb. 15, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 7,173 Replies: 1

Mobile Design: Tips and Tricks

By Barbara Ballard

Mobile Internet sites are not as easy to use as their computer-targeted Web-site cousins, due to smaller screens, more difficult text input, and a wide variety of user situations. Despite these factors, industry experts agree that mobile access to Web sites needs to...

Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 6,880

Write Thrice, Run Anywhere

By Barbara Ballard

The explosion of devices, markup languages, and platforms in the mobile application arena has developers pulling their hair out. Trying to have a separate application for every language is hard enough - but even then, the application still needs to be optimized fo...

Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 5,931

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By SOA World Magazine News Desk

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By Enterprise Open Source News Desk

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By SOA World Magazine News Desk

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By SOA World Magazine News Desk

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By SOA World Magazine News Desk

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By SOA World Magazine News Desk

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By Java News Desk

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By Wireless News Desk

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By Virtualization News Desk

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By Red Hat News Desk

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By Virtualization News Desk

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By Virtualization News Desk

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By Virtualization News Desk

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By Java News Desk

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