Would you buy an iPad or an Android Tablet?

July 26, 2011

The iPad continues to sell faster than anyone imagined, but a promising  new crop of tablets from competing companies mean that half the touchscreens purchased this year probably won’t be from Apple. The iPad will continue to dominate the touchscreen market with an estimated 50% of sales, according to a recent study by Retrevo, an online [...]

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Understanding the mobile audience

July 6, 2011

No matter which device you target in your designs, the first element to consider is your audience. When an audience is using an iPhone or other mobile device, you can safely assume that they’re, well,  mobile, and more than likely they’re looking for information fast, like how to find your location because they’re lost. Keep [...]

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Test your sites for the iPhone or iPad using the Safari User Agent Switcher on a Mac or PC

June 19, 2011

If you’ve ever tried to view the mobile version of a web site on your desktop computer and been frustrated that the site’s redirect features sent you to the desktop version automatically, here’s a quick tip to help you around those ‘helpful’ redirect scripts. Even if you typed in a mobile URL such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/web/ many [...]

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iPhone & iPad Web Design For Dummies

June 5, 2011

After much research, writing, editing, and testing, iPhone & iPad Web Design For Dummies is done! We created this book to help you design the best web site for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In this straightforward-but-fun guide you learn how to use HTML5, CSS3, and JQuery to produce highly interactive web sites for these [...]

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Mobile Gourmet and the Upscale iPhone/iPad Demographic

April 26, 2011

iPhone/iPad users share many of the same characteristics (and considerable bleed-over occurs from one group to the other), but are also different in significant ways. Early studies on the shopping habits of iPad users reveal that the conversion rate (the number of browsers who are converted into buyers) on the iPad is about 550 percent [...]

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What to consider when choosing a mobile commerce solution

April 26, 2011

Many factors should help you choose which m-commerce solution is best for your business, some of which may not have occurred to you. Although we can’t possibly anticipate all the needs of your business, the following are some questions you should answer for yourself; having a clear picture in your head of what is important [...]

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What web address should you use for your mobile web site?

April 4, 2011

Make it easy for everyone with a mobile phone to get to the URL of your mobile site (typing as little as possible), by setting up multiple mobile addresses and directing visitors to the best version of your site. Whatever you do, drop the www (no one should ever have to type those three letters [...]

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This is What the Death of Physical Media Looks Like

April 1, 2011

The Borders bookstore down at The Bridge, near LAX, is one of the outlets that is closing. I felt a definite pang for this store (although not as much as I did with the much-beloved Change of Hobbit, Midnight Special, Forbidden Planet or Dutton’s bit the dust – FSM bless all you indie booklovin’ outfits). [...]

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Both HP and Microsoft begging developers: “Come play in OUR walled garden. Pretty please?”

March 15, 2011

Yeah, I know that it’s kind of a stretch to compare Star Wars fanfic to native mobile apps … but then again, despite the generally dismal opinion of most professionals to the kind of tripe that gets published in fanzines, well, have you ever trolled through the dregs of the App Store? Yeesh.

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The Newsroom in Your Pocket: How to Use Mobile Phones to Cover Breaking Events

January 20, 2011

I just got done using this presentation as a webinar for the RTDNA, and I thought I’d share it here, along with some more of my thoughts to give it context. First, however, I’d like to thank all the attendees who made this webinar the most-attended (and, apparently, liveliest) session in a long while. I [...]

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