Mobile News & Articles

Mobile use of websites is on track to overtake conventional desktop access by the end of 2013, according to Gartner Research.

Cisco's data shows rapid growth of mobile data usage, and predicts even steeper growth over 2012 and 2013. More than one billion Android and iOS apps were downloaded in the final weeks of 2011, according to Flurry.

None of this should come as a surprise -- as you fondly glance at the shiny thing in your right hand.

Source: Cisco

No longer is managing Web content enough. The entire user experience must be managed and optimized across all online channels. And because mobile is a platform shift, it requires not only a change of content strategy, but also a change of certain technology infrastructure as well.

Open source experts, Rivet Logic, are giving a one-hour, live webinar that delves into how you can use open source software to develop exceptional online experiences that address both desktop and mobile web clients.

The event runs Thursday January 19th at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern time. During the discussion you will learn how to blend open source software to seamlessly deliver engaging online experiences across channels. 

You can learn more and reserve your seat here.

While the goal of marketing is to improve customer's overall interactions with a brand, few organizations engage directly with their customer tribes or communities and therefore miss out on leveraging what is one of its most valuable assets.

This year’s AIIM conference is a who’s who of social media geeks, academics, technology wonks, journalists and information technologists. AIIM 2012 will be held in San Francisco starting March 20. Among the well-known keynotes featured are New York Times tech columnist David Pogue, Empowered Forrester Researcher Ted Schadler and author and NYU faculty member Clay Shirky, all of whom will be sharing insights about managing information in the social, local and mobile era.

On a packed day at the CES show, Microsoft showed off the 4G Nokia Lumia 900, BlackBerry promised an email app for the PlayBook next month, while Sony showed off its first solo phone.

Sure, this site is mostly about code, services, web technology and stuff-in-the-cloud. But if you can't run the end result on a smart-looking box, what's the point? Check out the latest tablets from Lenovo, Acer and Toshiba with some office skills, full HD and super-sleek looks, for work or play anywhere, but all of them live in the shadow of the iPad 3.

Nimble, Flotype and Lithium Technologies kicked off 2012 with funding ranging from US$ 1 million up to US$ 53.4 million.

This week in Google, the search engine gets some further refinements, and it's making moves on the tablet front while Google TV moves from Intel to ARM.

The first week of 2012 has proven beneficial for mobile. There were a few reports that indicated that mobile won’t just be big in 2012, it’s already growing rapidly. But rapid growth has also identified many ways companies are unprepared to leverage mobile to improve online conversion. 

Asian tech companies are announcing their latest figures in force this week with Samsung bagging record sales for smartphones. Meanwhile, CES will see a raft of new innovations for mobile gadgets as Apple plans to bring Thunderbolt to future iOS devices.

Consumers these days can’t seem to get enough mobile apps, games, videos and other content. Mobile web usage has exploded and mobile search has quadrupled in the past year. Many people search on their smartphone when viewing a TV or print ad, looking for products via a search engine or through a clever speech recognition application such as Siri. And they expect to find the answer at their fingertips. Actionable content, right there, in seconds flat. Mobile has created a monster -- and it’s you and me.

The web is abuzz with rumors of a pending Google Tablet to challenge, not perhaps the Apple iPad juggernaut, but Kindle's new "Fire," in what some are calling the next "Fire fighter." And with smoke from the Italian press, kindling from an upstream Taiwan component supplier, and perhaps a grain of truth thrown in the mix, we get to the core of how these things get started in the first place.

Do you have a social media marketing plan for 2012? Will it differ from your 2011 efforts? Results from a recent social media marketing survey show that marketers are planning to invest heavily in social media marketing in 2012, but they are still grappling with getting sufficient resources and ROI.

Windows 8 was slowly revealed to the public during the course of 2011. A number of unofficial leaks were soon followed by an official "developer" preview in September at the Microsoft BUILD conference. The final product is due sometime in 2012 and is expected to be one of Microsoft's most important product launches ever.

Analysts reckon that Amazon's Kindle Fire stole over one million Apple iPad sales over the Christmas period. Did that really happen, or are other forces at play?

While it wasn't the record-breaking 61.64% share of mobile web browsing that Apple's iOS achieved in October 2011, Net Applications, the company that counts hits on its 40,000 client sites, said that Apple's popular iOS browser dominated the mobile web again in December with 52.1%, well ahead of its closest competitor, Java ME (Micro Edition), designed for embedded systems and claiming just 21.27% market share. 

Android ranked a distant third at 16.29% in December, with Symbian and BlackBerry at 5.76% and 3.51% respectively.  But Apple's share has been dipping since topping out in October, losing ground to the embedded Java ME source code licensed under the GNU General Public License and found in cell phones, and other computer products such as PDAs and set-top boxes.