Mobile Web, Page 14

The Washington Post is asking if new messaging apps are going to disrupt the carriers’ SMS cash cow. I’ve read articles like this in the past, but two seemingly unrelated news items from yesterday…

Yesterday, Apple declared that 2011 is the Year of iPad 2. Calling 2011 the year of anything other than transformation in the Middle East is crazy. But if we’re going to limit ourselves to…

The success of the iPad has caused an onslaught of new tablets to be announced. There were over 100 tablets announced at CES in January. The big question is whether or not these tablets…

There are two things you need to know in order to effectively use statistics on mobile: 1. What statistics are available and where to find them. 2. What question about mobile that you're seeking to answer.

We’ve known for some time that Nokia was having trouble adapting to the post iPhone world, but dismal financial results coupled with Android coming close to or passing Symbian in marketshare caused…

Here are a few interesting tidbits from some mobile websites we’re monitoring. The following stats are from the two month period inclusive of December, 2010 and January, 2011. The sites are U.S. centric and tend…

Hi, everybody! Last night I gave a presentation to the Portland, Ore., Drupal Users Group (PDXDUG) about the vast topic of the mobile Web on Drupal. There's a whole lot crammed into this 94-slide deck (and I delivered it in 45 minutes—whew!), and some of it will be old hat to mobile Web folks.

When it is AppleCoreMedia. Let me explain. I wrote recently about a quiz that we built that included HTML5 audio files. In addition to the volume problems already discussed, we encountered intermittent issues where…

We recently did some work on a project that included a lot of technology that pushed the boundaries of what is possible in mobile browsers. We learned a lot in the process including some surprisingly simple things that everyone takes for granted.