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Skyfire Mobile Browser

At the last MobileMonday Austin, I met Raj Singh of Skyfire. There he showed me Skyfire, a mobile browser (I think it is Mozilla-based) with full Flash, video, QuickTime, JavaScript and AJAX support. I was very impressed with the browser, its speed and…

On Mobile Consumer Segments

According to InsightExpress, there are three mobile user segments: The Mobile Pioneer (15 percent of the market) is ahead of his peers in terms of mobile behavior, and uses advanced features weekly such as Internet, unique applications, and/or video. The majority of Mobile…

at&t Mobility Universal Design Guideliness

From their website Universal Design: …introduces AT&T Mobility’s point of view on the relationship between accessibility and innovation. Principles of “barrier-free design” or “design for all” are not seen as constraints on design, but as fodder for innovation. Consider scenarios such as accessing…

WebClip2Go Review at The WAP Revew

Dennis has written a neat review of WebClip2Go, eZee’s free service that let users “clip” content from live web sites and make that content available on mobile phones using the concept of content clipping. Mobile content adaptation is an unsolved problem, and at…

iPhone SDK, the App Store, the iPhone on the Enterprise

I have written before that problem #1 with local application is the discovery and download (distribution) of the applications themselves; and that people will download applications, if the applications are of value. And today Apple announced the iPhone SDK for the creation of…

Design For Mobile mobile user experience conference

Barbara Ballard has been organizing an event in the U.S. focused on mobile design and user experience. I think it is great, and I would be great to have the Global mobile community participate and help educate the rest of us. From the…

eZeeLabs WebClip2Go, SXSW Interactive 2008 Mobile Companion

At eZeeLabs, the research and development group at eZee inc., we are announcing an early version of WebClip2Go, a free service that let users “clip” content from live web sites and make that content available on mobile phones. In essence, it lets you…

An amusing but cautionary SMS tale

Michael Yuan pointed me to a very interesting read about the unintended uses of product features… In this case, users using a share function for P2P chatting… See An amusing but cautionary SMS tale at the Mippin blog. I believe it is an…

Global Wireless Trends for 2008 and Beyond @ InnoTech SA

…for those interested, I’ll be speaking on Thursday at InnoTech in San Antonio. InnoTech is more of an IT’ish kind of event, but a good place to evangelize mobility to business folks. Global Wireless Trends for 2008 and Beyond: “C. Enrique Ortiz, CTO…

Google Gears for Mobile Devices

In its pursue for rich web applications for mobile, Google has taken it’s Gear product to mobile. From the announcement Power up your mobile web applications: “It’s a fully functional port of Google Gears v0.2 that can be used to develop offline capability…