Did you miss us? :-(
June 15, 2007, by admin
Like much of the rest of the Irish on-line world, we've been down today thanks to circumstances outside of our control. Nevertheless, we're taking steps... our apologies for a few missing hours... Read More
Data Service Tariffs and Offerings: An analysis among the Asian Operators
June 11, 2007, by svo9712
In my last article titled “Bangladesh: Data Service Dissection” I tried to give a generalized view of data service offerings by several Bangladeshi operators. Here in this article I will try to depict a comparison scenario of the data service offerings as well as the tariff models among some Asian operators. The operators are chosen from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Singapore to provide a clear comparative picture of Asia... Read More
site.mobi updates
June 8, 2007, by admin
We have updated Site.mobi to version 2.0. We hope you like it. The following are the new features that have been added in this new version.Simple formsAdvanced formsAuto-Redirect to PC WebsitesSEO (Search Engine Optimization)... Read More
Mobile advertising: how to monetize your mobile site
June 8, 2007, by ronan
Like it or hate it advertising is one of cornerstones of the web today. Advertising is paying for a lot of the time and money that goes into creating and publishing content that you see online. Without it, a lot of the "free" web sites that make up so much of the web would eventually disappear... Read More
Celebrity news and bikini contests on dev.mobi
June 6, 2007, by ronan
What has happened? Have we sold out? Are we making a cheap buck out of our developer forum?Thankfully not. This is all part of an altruistic experiment in mobile advertising. Those of you who visited the mobile version of mobiForge may have noticed that mobile ads started popping up on the site today... Read More
Sample dotMobi Certification exam questions
June 6, 2007, by admin
UPDATE: dotMobi certification course is no longer runningAfter receiving a number of requests from people to post a sample of the exam for the dotMobi Web Developer Certification course, we've finally bowed to public pressure. The questions listed below are not ones that you will find in the real exam, but they are representative of the kinds of things you will be asked and the difficulty level you can expect... Read More
Lightweight Device-Detection in PHP
June 1, 2007, by ronan
One problem that keeps cropping up when developing mobile content is how to differentiate between mobile devices and desktop browsers. We need to be able to do this before we can think about content adaptation. The "proper" way to do this is to use a full device detection database such as DeviceAtlas (see our tutorial here) but the following method may be sufficient to get you started... Read More
A new way to keep up with the forum
May 28, 2007, by admin
We added a new RSS feed to mobiForge today to help people keep up with posts in the forum. The following URL lists all recent forum posts across all topics, ordered newest first. This RSS feed works well as a Firefox live bookmark. As always, comments are welcome.http://mobiforge.com/view/forum/all/feed... Read More
dev.mobi and ready.mobi outages
May 24, 2007, by admin
Both dev.mobi and ready.mobi were out of action for a period last night: from about 2:58AM until 11:30AM on the 24th of May GMT both of these servers were unreachable to anyone outside of Ireland. Apparently this outage was the result of our hosting company's upstream connection to the outside world going down.We wanted apologize for this outage and assure you that we are taking measures to ensure that this will not happen again. ... Read More
Bangladesh: Data Service Dissection
May 23, 2007, by svo9712
Nowadays Asia is the focus market for the service providers and the vendors. One survey carried out by the researchers from the Russian School of Economics, the London Business School, various colleges of Cambridge University and the Anglo-Russian telecoms investment group Altimo reported Bangladesh as the number one telecom opportunity market for the manufacturers, service providers and the vendors... Read More
