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iPhone-style Launcher for the Treo

Click to go to tuaw.com Putting aside the fact the above is a rip-off, not even such nice interface will save Palm, or Treo, etc. Note that one of the handsets that I own is a Treo 650, and while the handset per-se…

Mobile Payments – one of the most important annoucements in CES 2007

While the Apple phone announcement took CES 2007 by storm (as in taking attention away from CES), there is another announcement that is as important, if not more important, than the Apple phone:     ⇒ Visa, Nokia turn cell phones into credit…

Once again, Apple redefines… (this time the mobile handset)

Apple has announced its new phone – a full surface screen mobile handset that is just sweet. While Nokia and BenQ had previously exposed concept phones with a full surface screen for UI, Apple is the one taking the concept all the way…

Web Browsing User Experience on Mobile Phones

Nokia Research Center Virpi Roto's Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Web Browsing on Mobile Phones – Characteristics of User Experience provides mobile web browsing background information, and characteristics for improving the mobile browsing user experience. ceo

Mobile Design Pattern Library

Barbara Ballard of little springs design has published a mobile design patterns Wiki, and she is looking for participation: “Little Springs Design has posted a Wiki containing the pattern library in my new book, Designing the Mobile User Experience. So far, it's got…

ITU digital.life Report

The 8th edition of the ITU Internet Reports, entitled “digital.life“, is available for download. The report was prepared for ITU TELECOM World 2006 (December 4-8 2006, Hong Kong). The report examines how innovation in digital technology is radically changing individual and societal lifestyles.…

John Battelle's The Search and prediction #13, the mobile prediction

I finished reading, actually, listening to John Battelle's book The Search. A very good book that I enjoyed very much. And listening to the actual book author is a great way to bridge the reader and author – it does add a different…

Thoughts on Mobility 2007

This is my last weblog entry for 2006, where I'll share with you some thoughts about Mobility in the year 2007… It has been almost a decade since I first realized the potential of mobile & wireless, and the impact it would have…

M:Metrics reports on teen demographics, mobile-social network and user-generated content

Source: M:Metrics, Inc., Copyright © 2006. One of the hot mobility areas in to keep watch in 2007+ is the intersection of mobility and social software: mobile social software, virtual communities, messaging and user-generated content. Earlier this month M:Metrics published a report on…

Bill Day's new discussion forums and Java ME archive

Bill has added a new Java ME and realated discussion forums to his site, go check it out. He also has renamed the old “J2ME Archive” to be the “Java ME Archive” to reflect the rebranding of “J2ME” as “Java ME”. ceo