AT&T Mobile App Hackathon was in San Francisco this last weekend with @autismspeaks  for a very productive autism focused hackathon.

Playing tag at Georgia Tech!  Read on about our hackathon this weekend.

Mobility is changing our world.  People are connected all the time and start to take it for granted.

In 2011, when I visited Ghana,

Now that many of the major mobile tech bloggers have made their mobile predictions for 2013, we’ve decided to look some of the most popular trends that everyone seems to be talking about in terms of opportunity for developers.

Here they are in no particular order:

NFC and Mobile Payments

Probably the most popular prediction made by ReadWrite, Inmobi, Scandit, Techbeat, and Business Insider is that mobile payments will increase in 2013. Many are skeptical about the market exploding in 2013, but they believe progress will be made and standards based on NFC such as Isis will be adopted.

Forecasts from eMarketer show that mobile payments are set to explode in the US with a 234% increase in 2013. CNET took a much more cynical view stating that “mobile payments continue to be hampered by rival groups all with their own agendas, and some don't even feel it really addresses any real problems.” Mobile payments aren’t the only use of NFC though; as NFC becomes more popular developers have a huge opportunity to find creative uses for it.

I attended the second WIMA NFC USA conference in San Francisco on November 28th and 29th. There were about 300 attendees and 28 exhibitors. The conference offered a unique experience to its attendees.

“What is ISIS? How does it work?”After my blog: Isis Mobile Payments Bring Businesses Closer To Customers was posted, I got a few inquiries about how Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment works.

Here is simplified story about NFC technology.

AT&T launched Isis Mobile Wallet in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah today.  Isis, a mobile payment system based on the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, is a joint venture among AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon.

Powered by Android™ 4.0, the 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy S® III arrives with Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. There is a broad potential for NFC applications, it’s a disruptive technology that a developer should pay attention to.

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HTC One X, AT&T's newest Android LTE phone, was released on May 6th. This phone is special for developers.