Mobile Devices News & Articles

In a recent Dunkin Donuts commercial, friends are in their car enjoying the coffee, donuts and bagels, when their map flies out the window. They all shrug and agree to have a real adventure. But I couldn’t help thinking, “None of them have a phone? Who uses a paper map?” A new study by the Nielsen Company confirms my suspicions -- nearly all adults in the U.S. now have cellphones, with one in four having smartphones.

This week, the mobile enterprise explores the appeal of Apple’s iPad and the explosive global expansion of the mobile web.

This week in the mobile enterprise, the iPad gets cool video conference solutions, mobile information workers invade and it's all about security, not the device.

Last year, Mobifusion, a leading mobile value-added services provider and partner for media and publishing companies, released its Mobiviewer 2.5 multimedia platform. This month, the company has announced the imminent release of its new MOBIeReader.

You're behind the curve if you haven't been working on a mobile strategy. Consider this: the mobile sector is a US$ 850 billion global market and will comprise 62% of the total telecom market in 2010 (IDC study, Worldwide Mobile Trends: Steady Subscriber Growth, the Proliferation of Applications, and the Mobile Internet ). Or this: more than one half of internet users worldwide used a mobile device for part of their shopping activities in December 2009 (Mobile Shopping Takes Hold Worldwide - eMarketer).

But before you circle the strategy and tech wagons, step back and think about how you really need to approach this channel. Need help? Read on.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (news, site) is back at work, this time developing best practices for the development and delivery of web applications on mobile devices.

Developed by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group as part of the Mobile Web Initiative, each best practice is intended to be a possible measure towards "the goal of providing as rich and dynamic an experience as possible on a mobile Web browser."

On the whole, the best practices relate to the appropriate technologies and techniques to use for managing a Web application's data. Here's a glimpse into some of the recommendations made by the working group.