News & Comment
Globally Accessible Operator WAP Portal as a channel of Worldwide Content Business
July 18, 2007, by svo9712
Almost every Telco in the world who are providing the data service facilities to their subscribers have their own operator WAP portal or intend to have one. An operator WAP portal can be a strong revenue earning source for the operator if it is properly planned architecturally as well as strategically... Read More
dotMobi’s mobile phone database, what is this?
July 13, 2007, by atrasatti
You might have read the recent press release from dotMobi about the launch of a global mobile phone database. The press release also mentions that I have been appointed as Director of Device Initiatives and this means that I will be in charge of the project, starting from the design and down to the development and launch as a public service. In the last few years I have made some good experience in device databases with WURFL and worked with some first class people in the W3C's DDWG. dotMobi seemed like the perfect place to start a whole new adventure to create a new and innovative device database. I have all the experience of the open-source community and the will to make a first class product that can satisfy the small shops and the enterprises, dotMobi is the right place to try to achieve this huge task... Read More
Andrea Trasatti has joined dotMobi
July 11, 2007, by James Pearce
I'm really pleased to tell you that Andrea Trasatti has joined dotMobi as Director of Device Initiatives.For those of you that don't know him, Andrea is an esteemed member of the mobile blogosphere and development community. He's an invited expert in the W3C's Mobile Web Initative, and has a career background in mobile content and analysis.Oh, and did I mention he was one of the founders of the WURFL project?... Read More
Mobile internet users in India outnumber PC internet users 3 to 1
July 9, 2007, by ronan
There was an interesting article in India's Economic Times over the weekend that confirms what a lot of people know already: mobile web is fast becoming the primary means of accessing the web for many people, specially in developing nations. India has 9 million internet subscribers against 31 million mobile internet users who use the mobile internet "to read and reply to mails, download content and for online transactions". About 54% of new handsets sold in 2006 were internet-enabled according to the same report... Read More
Ready.mobi v1.1
July 9, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We've been very busy working on this one, and we can finally unveil Ready.mobi v1.1. Our testing tool has had a major upgrade in version 1.1: no more page-by-page testing! You can now test a whole site with a click of a button. Want to get your hands on this? Then read on... Read More
