Archive | July, 2006
dotMobi Sunrise Registration Extended
DotMobi mobile web top level domain sunrise registration extended.
Continue reading...Mobile Carriers Work to Get Ahead of Google and Yahoo
28. July 2006
Both Google and Yahoo believe that start-ups can’t handle large amounts of user requests. Steve Boom, senior vice president of Yahoo said that “It’s going to be very difficult for a small player to build a brand-new advertising network,”
Continue reading...Page Weight Size for Mobile Websites
26. July 2006
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 – 5.3.2 The Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) states that: The balance between pagination and scrolling is partly a matter of taste and partly a matter of necessity. Devices with severe memory restrictions can only have small pages delivered to them. Equally some devices offer a poor scrolling experience and a [...]
Continue reading...Content Considerations for Mobile Web Sites
24. July 2006
The content for mobile web sites should be short, well written and tell a user immediately about the sites services or information.
Continue reading...Mobile Web Descriptive Link Identification
24. July 2006
Because of these issues the MWI suggest in it’s guidelines that clear descriptive link text be given to each link. For example:
Continue reading...W3C Publish Mobile Web Best Practices
21. July 2006
The W3C has published a set of guidelines through its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI). The Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 lays the groundwork with its guidelines for developing and designing websites to work on small handheld devices such as mobile phones.
Continue reading...Yahoo and Motorola Extend Mobile Web Deal
21. July 2006
Reuters reported that Internet media company and search engine Yahoo and cell phone maker Motorola have a reached a deal to load Yahoo services on tens of millions of new mobile devices. Motorola will preload Yahoo’s e-mail, search, address book and local search features onto handsets beginning in the first half of 2007 in markets [...]
Continue reading...Building Mobile Version of Search and Go
21. July 2006
About a year ago when we started project planning Search and Go we decided to create a mobile web version. This was not going to be implemented until the very end of the main web build. As we now approach the end of Phase 2 of Search and Go we are starting to put the [...]
Continue reading...Mobile Web Services Framework
20. July 2006
IEEE Internet Distributed Systems released a paper by Mustafa Adacal and Ayse B. Bener that proposes to integrate web services to the mobile platform utlising mobile agents. The paper goes onto outline a framework that is designed to adapt Web services to mobile environments that enable the development of high-performance Web service applications. Our test [...]
Continue reading...Mobile Web Application Tips
19. July 2006
A mobile ready website should produce on its home page a brief synopsis and fast navigation to its main service areas.
Continue reading...Screenshot for Symbian OS
18. July 2006
I decided to download Screenshot for Symbian OS 2.00 install it on the Nokia N90. The installation from my PC to mobile phone via Bluetooth was easy and I soon had the control panel open and configuring the application.
Continue reading...Writing For Handheld Devices
17. July 2006
Opera has tutorials on small device rendering and the following: Making Small Devices Look Great there a few interesting tutorials there coming from the Opera Software development team…
Continue reading...Mobile Web Gadgets
16. July 2006
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Newsweek published a story titled: Gadgets: The Mobile Web which briefly covered the launch of the upcoming domain .mobi. …high-tech firms are trying to promote a standardized domain name for mobile devicessimilar to dot-com for Web sites that would give users a reliable way of receiving and displaying data on their mobile devices. In June, [...]
Continue reading...Hello M3W
16. July 2006
This is a test of the public address system – do not be alarmed – know your rights! TEST
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