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BT FON, Poetry while mobile, if not in motion …
October 24, 2007, by Jo Rabin
There was a sudden splurge of old Vodafone Betavine blog posts through Planet Mobile Web at the end of last week, amongst which I spotted a post from Kevin Smith about BT FON. That reminded me of their recent announcment and reminded me too that I had been quite surprised about it at the time... Read More
Dev.mobi milestone
October 23, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Last weekend a noteworthy milestone was reached by dev.mobi. Over the weekend we broke through 5000 registered users! We're delighted with this great indication of interest and support from the developer community. So thanks indeed for helping us to get this far, and be sure to come back soon - we've got some exciting things lined up for dev.mobi users in the near future that you won't want to miss... Read More
Device simulators with PHP
October 19, 2007, by H2f
When a new mobile application is launched, it often is an issue how it is to be presented to the targeted users on the web. Linking directly to the application URL often results in a poor browsing experience on standard web browsers. Likewise, relying on one of the known online device emulators may result in compatibility problems, performance issues and dependencies on third party web servers... Read More
W3C mobileOK Checker Alpha Release
October 17, 2007, by Jo Rabin
This morning Sean Owen from Google announced an alpha release of the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests reference checker. Ruadhan and I have contributed to this open source effort to provide a baseline testing infrastructure. A lot of work has gone into producing it and while it’s not complete, or bug free, it’s great to see this work taking its next step... Read More
dotMobi’s device database at Mobile Monday London
October 15, 2007, by atrasatti
Last Monday (8 Oct 2007) I had a chance to present our device database initiative at the Mobile Monday event in London. It has been a great chance for me to introduce our product and our vision to a large number of companies that are very interested in the topic and certainly have a view on it given their day-to-day experience with fragmentation in the mobile space... Read More
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
Content Transcoding and operator perspective
October 7, 2007, by svo9712
Currently Content Transforming or Converting the Desktop Web into the Mobile web is a very hot topic. In this article I will just try to focus some of my questions related to Content Transcoding and will focus on some of my thoughts from an operator’s viewpoint. The article can be considered as a top level analysis... Read More
AKTEL launches aktelspice.mobi
October 6, 2007, by svo9712
AKTEL, one of the largest telecom operators in Bangladesh, launched their new version of renovated WAP portal in dotmobi domain. aktelspice.mobi is the address of the new WAP portal. SPICE is the brand name of AKTEL mobile portal. aktelspice.mobi is available to AKTEL subscribers from 6th October, 2007.So AKTEL is of course the FIRST telco in Bangladesh and possibly the first telco in the APAC region who has embraces the .mobi as the domain and is running its Mobile Portal maintaining dotmobi coding standard. And I am happy that I got the opportunity to lead that march. So hopefully now other telcos will also be interested to LIVE their mobile portal in dotmobi... Read More
“PC Intenet” user base shrinks as Indians go mobile
This is a very recent news article that appeared in India's Economic Times news paper. Here are some extracts for the news item... The total internet connections in the country declined to 9.22 million in April-June from 9.27 million in the previous quarter, according to telecom regulator TRAI's ...(India’s Population is estimate 1.12 billion)... 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
