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Based on Q2 sales of smartphones, Webkit-based browsers may soon ship on 85% of all smartphones sold. Please keep in mind, this is not the reality right now. This number assumes RIM’s purchase of Torch Mobile… More

Last January, I wrote about how the iPhone App Store was the surprise story of 2008. Flickr photo by Civisi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/civisi/2611679744/ The point of my previous post was how the iPhone App Store ran contrary to the… More

Tonight at Mobile Portland, there will be a presentation about Moblin. Moblin is an open source operating system for netbooks and mobile internet devices. This presentation has caused me to reconsider what we mean when we say… More

Here is the story many people would like you to believe: Apple told developers that the only way to build applications for the iPhone was to use web technology. Developers didn’t go for it so Apple eventually caved and created… More

Expanded from my tweet earlier today: HTC sells 80% of Windows Mobile phones. HTC rumored to be expect Android on 50% of its handsets in 2010 If this rumor is true, it doesn’t look good for Microsoft. More

I wanted to include a series of links at the end of my previous post on HTML 5, but I was afraid they would get lost after such a long post. Here they are: HTML 5 Developer Group in Portland… More

At the risk of being accused of wearing mobile-tinted glasses, HTML5 is going to big a deal and it will be relevant much sooner than people think. More

Even if you thought the App Store would be successful, it would have been hard to predict the gold rush mentality that has developed. In many ways the iPhone App Store flies in the face of the preceding technology trends. More

You can now view the slides from my presentation on the upcoming Mobile Tsunami at Portland Web Innovators last week including an audio recording or presenter notes. More

I wrote recently about how the number of mobile devices dwarfs all other media and how this staggering this statistic is. A recent study puts the number of mobile devices at 3.3 billion, up from the previous number of… More