Mobile, Media & Technology Publishing
When Steve Jobs said the best size for a tablet computer screen (i.e. iPad) was 9.7″, all the bright manufacturers, especially Samsung, turned their noses up. Secretly, Amazon did the same with the Kindle Fire. Gotcha, Apple, we’ll make smaller screens for consumers who want them. Heard through the mobile grapevine today….Verizon Wireless and Apple will release a [...]
Mobile Websites – Effective Communication Tools for Business As an overstressed business person–perhaps a 16 hour a day entrepreneur–Mobile website design and hosting are probably low on your totem pole. But your business depends greatly on adopting mobile best practices, including launching a mobile site in 2012. Everyone’s talking about the mobile Web. Everywhere you [...]
125,000 Vegas CES attendees invading desert town for sizzling electronics show. Each person, emitting 100 watts, like light globes, crushing Vegas’s AC system, 1.3 BILLION watts raising heat. TV’s, computers, smartphones, other gadgets draining juice. AC maxing out at Las Vegas Convention Center. CES heat won’t melt cell towers and mobile gear. Root Metrics and PC Mag [...]
A fast mobile browser increases Internet speed quickly on the Internet for Skyfire users. Today’s mobile websites demand lean-and-mean mobile Web browsers to render fast and accurate displays on mobile handsets. Mobile users expect super-quick web page loading on their phones, whether the content is text, photos, videos or graphics. This challenges carriers with 3G and 4G [...]
Paper books or e-Books? Which are better? Several months ago, I visited Santa Cruz, a small coastal community south of the San Francisco Bay Area. As I sauntered past a Catholic Church having a rummage sale, I stopped to take a look at the hard cover paper books. I found a copy of Dale Carnegie‘s [...]
The year is 2036 and media content has exploded in a 5G wireless world. I insert a memory chip into your right index finger that connects along the median nerve to my brain’s neocortex. I peruse the ancient writings of a blogger, writing about media content in 2010. I become fascinated with the story as [...]
Smartphone Market Exploding Worldwide Journalists and bloggers say writing the first sentence of an article is the most difficult (next to the title, of course). And that’s certainly the case with smartphone growth. If this piece were a review of the latest mobile device, its features, comparison to other phones and consumer smartphone preferences , [...]
The Sprint Samsung Nexus S Story Like many of you, I upgraded to a Samsung Nexus S a few days ago. Then I spent time today with the Sprint Community and Google Samsung Nexus S forum folks online. Lots of chat about weak RF signals. So I Googled around the Web and found mostly praise [...]
Mobile website errors can frequently impact advertising and marketing campaigns, even for large brands like Microsoft. As mobile website advertising grows, it’s critical that site landing pages perform flawlessly. Gartner, commScore, Nielsen Wireless and other mobile research companies predict a five-fold increase in mobile marketing and mobile advertising during the next few years. As ads [...]
Mobile Convergence, Smartphones & Tablet Computers Dell’s soon-to-be-released Streak mobile smartphone/tablet raises mobile convergence to a new level. Take Dell’s 5″ screen device. While smartphone displays are growing larger, tablet computer screens are getting smaller. The latest Android phones, such as Sprint’s HTC EVO and Verizon’s Droid X, have 4.3″ screens. If this trend [...]
CityVille a Scam? No, you’re not reading one of those affiliate marketing trick blog posts to get you to buy something. I’ve been playing Cityville and FarmVille for a few weeks. And, despite CityVille’s 25% higher ratings than FarmVille, I think that CityVille takes advantage of game players. If you love the game, you’ll hate [...]
New Media Marketing Challenged by Digital New media marketing is making newspaper marketers scratch their head. But why is it so difficult to understand how Internet surfers use the Web for news and information? While searching through my Google News page this morning, I clicked on “mobile Internet devices” and an interesting article on Cloud Computing getting [...]