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The mobiThinking guide to mobile advertising networks 2013: Premium networks
January 21, 2013, by mobiThinking
• GUIDE HOME • BLIND NETWORKS • PREMIUM BLIND NETWORKS • PREMIUM NETWORKS • LOCAL AD NETWORKS • AFFILIATE AND CPA NETWORKS •... Read More
Guides to mobile money in Malaysia and Singapore from Shift Thought
January 18, 2013, by mobiThinking
Update (February 2013): The Mobile Money Asia Conference and the competition are now over. But the briefings on Mobile Money in Malaysia and Mobile Money in Singapore from Shift Thought’s Charmaine Oak are still available as a free download. Click on the links above or below. • For upcoming events see: Mobile events 2013: best mobile conferences, great discounts... Read More
What makes mobile a critical channel for customer engagement in Latin America? Interview with André Andrade MEF LatAm and Titans
January 16, 2013, by mobiThinking
In December 2012, André Andrade was appointed vice chairman of the MEF Latin American board. He is the CEO of Titans Group, a Brazilian-based company which provides value-added-services (VAS), such as device security and mobile learning, to major mobile operators across Latin America, and through them to 10 million customers in 17 countries... Read More
The dos and donts of building and marketing your mobile site in China – guest blog by Mark Tanner, China Skinny
January 15, 2013, by mobiThinking
China’s 1 billion mobile subscribers are rapidly taking up the mobile Web. The number of mobile Web users is rapidly approaching 400 million users, according to CNNIC, while the Chinese operators report that they have more than 200m 3G (i.e. fast internet) subscribers... Read More
HTML5 for mobile developers
Why HTML5 and why now? When it comes to touch-screen mobile devices, native applications have led the way in terms of performance, speed and tighter integration to specific platforms. Unbound by the need to conform to standards, native apps could rapidly take advantage of the latest hardware and operating system innovations, while Web technologies always had to wait for the international community to agree and implement standards first. But with the HTML5 specification coming to fruition, browser-based mobile apps are rapidly catching up with the natives... Read More
Most popular content on mobiThinking in 2012
January 4, 2013, by mobiThinking
Happy New Year mobiThinking was visited by 808,559 unique visitors in 2012 (75 percent more than 2011) – what did they come to read? The top destination on mobiThinking in 2012 was the Compendium of global mobile stats with 975,298 pageviews (PV), followed by the Guide to mobile ad networks, Guide to the world’s top mobile markets, Guide to mobile awards and Guide to mobile agencies. Find the links to all the top content below…... Read More
2013: The year nothing but mobile matters for any business selling in China – guest blog by Mark Tanner, China Skinny
December 20, 2012, by mobiThinking
Growth rates for almost everything in China are staggering, but few come close to the phenomenal rise of mobile... Read More
Consuming JSON services in Android apps
December 19, 2012, by weimenglee
Unless you are writing a Hello World Android application, chances are your application would need to connect to the outside world to fetch some data, such as live currency exchange rates, weather information, records from databases, etc. One of the easiest ways for your application to connect to the outside world is to use web services. For the past few years, XML web services have dominated the arena for web services, as XML was touted as the ubiquitous medium for data exchange. However, using XML as the medium for your data payload suffers from the following problems:... Read More
Strategies for securing the enterprise in a BYOD world – guest blog by Chris Swan
December 12, 2012, by mobiThinking
With so many execs with tablet devices on their Christmas list this year, CTOs will be under increased pressure in the New Year to formulate a strategy that allows employees to use their new toys at work... Read More
Lightweight accordions & sliders with jQuery Mobile
Mobile developers are commonly confronted with clients who want everything – all the content and features – on their PC site crammed into the mobile site, rather than going for a streamlined mobile site. That might sound like a recipe for bloated code and a poor user experience – neither of which is acceptable on a mobile device – but it needn’t be, as long as mobile developers emphasize ingenuity over excess functionality. That’s where jQuery accordion menus and sliders come in very useful and, if used cleverly, they can help keep the mobile experience lean and mean... Read More
