News & Comment
DeviceAtlas 2.0
October 3, 2008, by atrasatti
We're thrilled to launch the new version of our award-winning DeviceAtlas platform. Version 2.0 is a huge step forward for us, and we hope it's going to change the way you think about mobile device information. Since we launched DeviceAtlas at the start of the year, we've been working hard to source mobile device information from all over the world. Take a look at the footer of the site and you'll see the logos of handset manufacturers, mobile operators and leading vendors who've all helped us enormously to do this... Read More
Ready.mobi API has landed
October 3, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Well, is landing. We're just about ready to start beta testing on ready.mobi v2.2 aka API release. We've been planning this for a while, and a few of you have already had a sneak preview, but before we launch it fully, we invite any interested parties to try out the beta... Read More
Mobile growth data from comScore M:Metrics
October 2, 2008, by mobiThinking
comScore M:Metrics recently reported that in June 2008, 20.8 million U.S. mobile subscribers and 4.5 million European mobile phone subscribers accessed search during the month, an increase of 68 and 38 percent from June 2007, respectively. The U.K. had the highest penetration of mobile subscribers using search at 9.5 percent, followed closely by the U.S. at 9.2 percent... Read More
Vertical Search just got better
September 29, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
One of the new goodies we developed for mobiForge was our Vertical Search feature. This search replaces the stock search functionality bundled with the CMS that mobiForge runs on. If you haven't tried it out yet, in a nutshell, Vertical Search combines mobiForge search results with relevant results from various other mobile resource sites from around the web... Read More
Open source LBS
September 24, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Location based services are becoming more and more prevalent every day, with innovative applications that make use of location, like FireEagle, and Google Maps for Mobile, popping up all the time. We've just published the first part of a two-part piece on Location via CellID, and the open source database of CellIDs, OpenCellID... Read More
