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Ready.mobi API update
March 19, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We've just gone live with an new version of the ready.mobi API. (Full details and code samples here). So what's new in this version? The most notable feature in this version is the ability to post markup directly to the ready.mobi API without having to supply a publicly accessible URL to the service. This is the result of some early feedback on the API that during the development cycle pages often did not have a public URL, and so they could not be tested with ready.mobi... Read More
Toast to the iPhone: a must-see beer app
March 18, 2009, by mobiThinking
mobiThinking was privy to a mouthwatering mobile application from Cobra beer. It’s a beer brewed in the Indian style for the European drinker, with a cutting-edge promotion to woo the upwardly-mobile drinker... Read More
DeviceAtlas 2.4 adds Sprint data
March 18, 2009, by atrasatti
[url=http://deviceatlas.com]DeviceAtlas[/url] 2.4 is our latest update and it comes with a very exciting new partner, the US carrier Sprint. [url=http://developer.sprint.com]Sprint[/url] has a very good developer site with many tools specific to their portal and devices and we are very excited to have the opportunity to add their device profiles to DeviceAtlas. Starting from today we will be adding data directly from Sprint that will either be mapped to existing devices thus adding a new source of data, and we will also be defining new devices that we did not know about before... Read More
MyMobileWeb Free Training Course
March 18, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Our friends over at MyMobileWeb are running a free training course on 14th April 2009. We've carried content on the MyMobileWeb platform on mobiForge before here. Details of the course below: Do you want to develop compelling Mobile Web Applications for multiple devices and Contexts of Use? Do you want to exploit device capabilities at a maximum without compromising support on those less capable devices?... Read More
Number crunching: USA is number one in mobile Web surfing or is it?
March 16, 2009, by mobiThinking
The US was crowned top country for mobile Internet browsing last week by the press, as mobile analytics company Bango released its latest figures, overtaking the UK. But can we say with certainty that the US is number one and UK is number two?... Read More
SMS Messaging in Android
March 12, 2009, by weimenglee
It would be safe to say that nearly every mobile phone sold in the past decade has SMS messaging capabilities. In fact, SMS messaging is one great killer application for the mobile phone and it has created a steady revenue stream for mobile operators. Understanding how to use SMS messaging in your application can provide you with many ideas to create the next killer application... Read More
The Grid – mobile social networking that speaks the language of marketers
March 11, 2009, by mobiThinking
Every time you turn over a stone there seems to be half-dozen mobile social networks lurking underneath. It’s a shame because they’re all fascinating in their own special way, but if you don’t have time to put them under the magnifying glass, they all look a bit similar (from a mobile marketing point of view). But this one leaps right out… and bites you... Read More
Handy shortcuts to using Ready.mobi
I love Firefox. In fact I sometimes wonder how anyone ever did any web development or design without Firefox and its many great extensions. Well I've got 3 handy add-ons/tips for you that will make designing for mobile that much easier by enabling you to launch ready.mobi in seconds... Read More
Mobile Social Networking Forum conference (London): discount for mobiThinking readers
March 5, 2009, by mobiThinking
mobiThinking readers will receive a 15 percent discount for the Mobile Social Networking Forum conference, at London’s Olympia Conference Centre, March 9 and 10, 2009... Read More
Kind of a “sunshine transcoder story”
March 3, 2009, by jonarne
I guess many of you have been following discussions on various attempts by network operators to transcode desktop web sites and squeeze them on to a mobile device, without respecting the intentions of content owners. The case I'll be talking about is the TeliaSonera case, and their "SurfOpen" service. First time around, the launch caused an uprising among the content owners forcing TeliaSonera to go offline with SurfOpen. Now SurfOpen is launched again with a more reasonable approach... Read More
