Adding favicons in a multi-browser multi-platform world
A Skeptic’s View On Google’s Intent To Deprecate And Freeze The User-Agent Header
dev.mobi membership ad.astra
August 21, 2007, by James Pearce
I couldn't resist a small opportunity to bang the dev.mobi drum - particularly since it's purely a measure of your support. We just broke 3,000 registered members for the site!Actually, at the time of writing it's 3,118, but I've been moving house, so I missed the precise moment :-)Anyway, our thanks and admiration to you for signing up to the dream of a mobile future. Here's to our next three thousand friends... 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
How to monetize your mobile site: PayPal Mobile Checkout
Following on in the series of articles on how to monetize your mobile site we're turning our attention to PayPal and their recently released platform for the mobile web: PayPal Mobile Checkout.PayPal Mobile Checkout is available now... Read More
The worst practices of the mobile web.
August 15, 2007, by Cyril
It's more usual to give good examples and best practices, but since I'm visiting and analyzing .mobi websites, and I have seen so many bad things, I decided take the snake by the tail. Feel free to avoid these worst practices. At the head of the hall of shame, I claim... Read More
Still not convinced that 2007 is “The Year of the Mobile Web”?
August 9, 2007, by James Pearce
Any top-level domain is only as good as the sites that use it..mobi is no different. We're a very young domain registry, and we've made amazing progress with the domain uptake. But, like many registries, a large part of our mission is to stimulate the growth of content.But what adds to dotMobi's responsibility in particular, I think, is an awareness that .mobi sites are, in a way, uniquely representative of a whole new medium: the mobile web.That's certainly we take that responsibility very seriously. Our developer community, tools, publications and resources are all designed to help grow the mobile web. On mobiForge, we service many thousands of signed-up mobile developers and their needs every day, even those that are not (yet! :-) ) running their sites on .mobi domains.As a result I feel fairly confident that our domain uptake, the numbers of live sites - not to mention the success of the mobiForge community itself - are valuable barometers for the sector as a whole.So I thought I'd share some interesting statistics with you... Read More
Building a mobile device test suite
August 9, 2007, by atrasatti
Building a test suite might seem like a simple task at first sight, but unfortunately it is not like that. First of all you need to decide what properties you want to test, and since we are talking about mobile devices there are so many things to test that it becomes hard to make a decision... Read More
Meffy awards and Telenors football service
August 3, 2007, by jonarne
Heard about the Meffy Awards? In their own words: As the industry’s official benchmark for measuring success and rewarding innovation, the Meffys honour the most influential players from around the world. So, in other words, MEF aims to reward good mobile services... Read More
Mobile Advertising: New Revenue Earning Business Area for the operators
July 27, 2007, by svo9712
Mobile advertising can be a new business idea for any mobile operator. In the concept of Mobile Advertising, the network operator can play the role to act like a medium for advertisement.As is the case for a TV channel & a newspaper, a mobile can be thought of as a prospective and direct medium for the advertisers to reach and sell their product... Read More
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
