Mobile, Media & Technology Publishing
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 [...]
We take a lot of things for granted? Like mobile website design. If you awakened one morning, turned on your smartphone and none of your apps worked, what would you do? Would you stare at a blank dark screen and only make phone calls? Or would you hit the browser button taking you [...]
Make Your Blog Visible on Most Phone Screens in 15 Minutes Yes, that’s right, 10% and your audience loss may be higher. If you haven’t mobilized your blog, your business or personal blog is invisible to billions of people on Earth. Add iPads and other mobile devices and your potential audience melts in cyberspace. [...]
If the mobile Internet is similar to the regular Web, chances are you’ll never finish reading this post. According to Nielsen, the average American looks at a web page on average for 56 seconds. Other research indicates that Web surfing may change your brain’s chemistry. In a Wall Street Journal article called “Does the Internet [...]
Internet censorship in Australia has reached unacceptable levels. Many people don’t realize that Internet filtering affects thousands of mobile users when governments block or censor websites. If China or Australia decides to ban country or international websites on a mobile phone, users see 404–page not found. Internet Censorship Hitting More Countries Web blocking in Australia [...]
Mobile Internet Research Report Studies about the future of the mobile Web tend to cluster into two categories: “hard” research, such as the huge increase in mobile devices connected to the Web and “soft” research focused on mobile phone user engagement or social media preferences among smart phone users. Both hard and soft research reveal important [...]
Rich Gubby at Wapple in the U.K. has created an easy to use, fully-featured WordPress plugin called “Architect” that mobilizes (re-sizes) your blog. It makes your WordPress blog readable on most mobile phones in just a few minutes. Many bloggers and website owners don’t realize that 5% or more of blog traffic comes from mobile phone [...]
Large brand marketers and advertisers have dominated mobile marketing campaigns as the mobile ecosystem has developed. Brands and agencies have demonstrated the power of adding mobile phone SMS marketing as part of their overall marketing mix to increase brand awareness. Increasing numbers of small business are launching mobile campaigns to improve campaign results among consumers [...]
As I was playing Farmville this morning, I experienced Farmville glitches and crashes. The infamous Cow appeared on my Facebook screen with a message: “Oh no! It looks like all the bits got lost on the way to your computer. Please refresh your page.” While Zynga worked on its Farmville problems affecting its 26 million [...]
One of the major challenges facing mobile handset manufacturers, application developers, carriers and others is ensuring that mobile applications and software run flawlessly on hundreds–if not thousands–of mobile handsets in use around the world. As smartphones and other mobile computing devices increase in complexity, mobile application development is hindered without proper testing. Perfecto Mobile, a [...]
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 [...]
Kindle: More than a Reading Device? he Kindle wireless reading device is one of many latest generation e-readers revolutionizing the way we read books. Could it also be your next mobile phone? Have you ever asked yourself why mobile phone form factors (shapes) are similar? Since the first Motorola cell phone was released in [...]
GPS and Location Based Services Thinking of using mobile GPS to locate your friends on your new smartphone? Think again. The global positioning system (GPS) is under strain just as mobile device consumers, the military and businesses are demanding greater accuracy and reliability. GPS also has a direct impact of location based services development. In [...]