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dotMobi Sunrise Registration Extended

DotMobi mobile web top level domain sunrise registration extended.

Mobile Carriers Work to Get Ahead of Google and Yahoo

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,”

Page Weight Size for Mobile Websites

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 better page [...]

Content Considerations for Mobile Web Sites

The content for mobile web sites should be short, well written and tell a user immediately about the sites services or information.

Mobile Web Descriptive Link Identification

Because of these issues the MWI suggest in it’s guidelines that clear descriptive link text be given to each link. For example:

W3C Publish Mobile Web Best Practices

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.

Yahoo and Motorola Extend Mobile Web Deal

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 in [...]

Building Mobile Version of Search and Go

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 first [...]

Mobile Web Services Framework

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.

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Mobile Web Application Tips

A mobile ready website should produce on its home page a brief synopsis and fast navigation to its main service areas.

Screenshot for Symbian OS

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.

Writing For Handheld Devices

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…

Mobile Web Gadgets

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, Microsoft, [...]

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