Paul Golding has spent almost 20 years in mobile technology and business. He was a key member of Motorola Wireless research team up until he founded his own business in 1995. Since then, he has focused on mobile internet software technologies and techniques, from an architecture and programming perspective, and is now a freelance consultant, author and blogger. He has worked with mobile projects on all continents; recently, he consulted as Chief Applications Architect for Motorola. In 2004, Wiley published Golding's book Next Generation Wireless Applications which went into second edition last year. He also has nearly completed his first novel, a sci-fi story for kids. An interesting creation Golding came up with as early as the mid-nineties was a digital dashboard for mobile. It was based on the idea of desktop widgets, which is an idea that has come around again recently. Mobile widgets are being promoted again – let's see if they work this time around.