Tag Archives: Authoring
Welcome to my Soap Box…
March 31, 2008, by Ronan_Mandel
Hello, and thanks for stopping by. I’m very pleased to be here on the mobiForge blog after taking a short break from having a platform from which to speak about mobile web issues, concerns and answers for developers. After having spent over 8 years behind the helm of the developer program at Openwave (a.k.a Phone.com a.k.a. Unwired Planet), I find my self engaging in new challenges... Read More
We’re jammin’
March 26, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
mobiForge is sponsoring the Mobile Jam Session in Las Vegas next Monday 31 March (the day before CTIA). Following hot on the heels of a successful kick-off jam session in Barcelona during MWC last month, it promises to be a day to inspire new ideas and innovate solutions within the mobile ecosystem. Jam on!... Read More
Blogger mobile
March 1, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Do you use Blogger? Need a mobile template? We recently had a request in our forums for a mobile template for Blogger, and a few searches later ('blogger mobile template' etc.) and I knew how to post to a Blogger blog from my phone, but not how to make it accessible to mobile users...Blogger uses a template system which allows users to create and customise their own templates... Read More
Flash Lite and Video Streaming
November 6, 2007, by Giorgio Natili
The aim of this article is to provide the basic knowledge needed to start with Flash Lite and its compelling multimedia capabilities. We start with a basic introduction to Flash Lite, describing its history and capabilities. This is followed by a description of the tools necessary to develop Flash Lite applications. Towards the end we outline a simple application for streaming video with Flash Lite... 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
