Mobility

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 capabilities. The browser is available as a free download, and is initially … Read more

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 Pioneers are under 35 years old, one third of them have a … Read more

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 phone keys in a darkened theater, waiting for a call in a … Read more

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 eZeeLabs with WebClip2Go, we are experimenting with the separation of “content selection” … Read more

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 native applications for the iPhone. But as important, they also released the … Read more

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 DesignForMobile website: September 23-24, 2008 — Design For Mobile will be the … Read more

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 browse content from the regular Internet on your phone, using the concept … Read more

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 awesome anecdote and lesson on user behavior: “In other words, a segment … Read more

…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 at eZee inc. will cover the latest trends on mobility, why the … Read more

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 into your mobile web applications. You can also create slick and responsive … Read more