Design & Development
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
Binary SMS: sending rich content to devices using SMS
October 5, 2007, by Julien Buratto
This article will explain from a high level to a lower level how to write a simple SMS-enabled mobile application which will allow you to send "Over The Air installation messages". After reading this article, you will be able to create a small J2ME applet which will theoretically send itself to another phone using an SMS message as the means of delivery... Read More
Setting HTTP headers to advise transcoding proxies
September 28, 2007, by atrasatti
If you want to add specific HTTP headers to your pages and applications there are many different solutions depending on your environment. There are a lot of reasons why you would want to add an HTTP header, but in this article I want to use as an example a couple of headers that will help you declare that your content should not be transformed and, if you do content adaptation, which headers you use to detect the browser and the device... Read More
Getting started with Mobile AJAX
August 21, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Mobile AJAX is a term that's hot right now in the industry - we are seeing it mentioned more and more every day. This article will give an overview AJAX from a mobile web point of view. But before we talk about mobile AJAX in particular, we should say a little about what AJAX means... 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
