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Mobile AJAX ?
October 14, 2007, by jonarne
Mostly for my own education I have been playing around with mobile ajax, ajah, ahah or what ever you like to call it. Many great articles are written about the topic and some frameworks are even emerging. But how, where, when to use it, what to do, what to don't ? I'll share what I have learned playing around with mobile Ajax wondering about just that... Read More
Mobile advertising for the greater good
September 18, 2007, by jonarne
Mobile advertising is currently a buzz word, here on mobiForge and everywhere else. Hence, the meaning of the term "mobile marketing" has many interpretations. I'll narrow it down to just talk about banner ads on mobile portals for now... Lots of articles have been written , Gartner finds it interesting and lots of commercial companies are entering this business. Of course we all hate flashing,blinking,rotating and noisy ads on web sites, and I fear that we're gonna hate it even more on our mobile phones! But not yet... Before we start to hate them, we will actually find them relevant... Read More
Fighting data cost
August 20, 2007, by jonarne
One of the main reasons people are reluctant to use mobile internet on a regular basis is said to be the cost of data over CSD,GPRS,EDGE, UMTS etc. Not necessarily because data traffic is expensive, but rather because people are not sure of the cost due to the carriers complex price models. The European Union has, by the EU Roaming Regulation , made an effort to reduce roaming charges. However, this regulation does not include roaming charges on data traffic. This means that it is up to the mobile operators to charge as they like for data traffic. In some counties the data traffic can be as high as 12 Euro pr megabyte. [edit: just found an article from Times Online] Fortunately some carriers have seen this problem as well. So, the least we can do as developers is to keep the data traffic to a minimum.Here are some basic tips... Read More
Meffy awards and Telenors football service
August 3, 2007, by jonarne
Heard about the Meffy Awards? In their own words: As the industry’s official benchmark for measuring success and rewarding innovation, the Meffys honour the most influential players from around the world. So, in other words, MEF aims to reward good mobile services... Read More
