New joojoo tablet puts the focus on the Web (not Apps)

November 4, 2010

The company launching joojoo calls it a “first of it’s kind Internet tablet,” and claims it offers the ‘ultimate browser experience.” Although Safari is the most popular App on the iPhone, it’s not designed as well as it could be. The new joojoo tablet not only promises to put more emphasis on making the Internet [...]

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Tablet Saturation Point: Reached

October 29, 2010

Why the mobile web is gathering steam, and apps are looking shaky: The most-cynical (and therefore, the most snarkily delightful) takeaway from this week’s OMMA Mobile conference was the revelation that: “Every week, you’ve got these device guys traipsing up and down the 101, meeting with developers. They reach into the black box and pull [...]

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Mobile in Latin America

October 13, 2010

Anyone who has walked down a street in a major Latin American city in the past 10 years knows how big mobile technology is in the region. Even the poorest of the poor have cellphones glued to their ears; in some cities, no respectable businessman would dare to be seen out in public without at [...]

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BlackBerry Includes the Word “Play” in Naming Their Tablet Device – Why?

October 2, 2010

Despite trademarking “BlackPad,” the marketing whizzes at RIM decided PlayBook was the best moniker …perhaps to try to ride two horses at the same time. It’s no secret that there are millions of frustrated BlackBerry users who have been jealous of the form-factor upgrade the iPhone/iOS users get with the iPad. Maybe they’re trying to [...]

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Mobile Web Design For Dummies Available Now!

September 11, 2010

After much research, writing, editing, and testing, Mobile Web Design For Dummies hit bookstores this week. Pick up a copy at a bookstore near you. Table of Contents Part I Designing for Mobile Devices Chapter 1: Understanding What Makes Mobile Different Chapter 2 Designing for the Mobile World Part II Following Mobile Web Standards Chapter [...]

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Firefox for Mobile on Android and Nokia N900

August 30, 2010

I’m still not sure if this will take off or not – but I have so many bookmarks, plugins and other junk that I’ve accumulated over the years of tweaking Firefox that the prospect of being able to port that user environment over to my mobile device is intoxicating. The release is codenamed Fennec, and [...]

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A few tips for optimizing mobile web designs

August 29, 2010

When you begin thinking about how best to design the mobile version(s) of your Web site, consider the unique challenges of the mobile Web covered in this section. The key considerations to keep in mind while you design sites for the mobile Web are: Limited real estate: Mobile designs need to fit on small screens. [...]

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Designing for Geo-Location Advertising: A Business Model Pokes Its Head Above Ground

August 18, 2010

“This is the year of location” All the pundits & usual techhype suspects have moved on from the Greek Chorus-like droning of “This is the year of mobile,” to the new barely comprehensible marketing meme of location-based mobile … well, mobile whatever.  Swing a search engine by the tail and you’ll quickly run across a [...]

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Murdoch’s National Newspaper for Tablets & Touchphones

August 17, 2010

News Corp. announced that they’re launching a “national newspaper” that will be distributed only on digital platforms This is part of an overall rush to the tablet platform on the part of newspaper & magazine publishers, who are hoping that the willingness of the public to pay for content on this new platform will help [...]

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FCC Getting Annoyed About Slow Broadband Roll-out: Is the Answer a Purple Laser?

July 23, 2010

$8 billion a year to POTS; “we are no longer on the right track” Anyone who’s traveled around the world has probably noticed what Janine and I have these last couple of years: we can usually access the internet much faster in other countries than we can here in the good ol’ US of A, [...]

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