Mobility

A smart move by Research in Motion to serve small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) by hosting the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. See their Press Release. ceo

A very good post by Tom Landspurg on (mobile) widgets. See his post What is a (mobile) Widget. Tom gets it right… on the definition, the concepts and challenges behind widgets. I'm looking forward to see a kick ass widget engine for mobile – and I say, Tom should build one — who better to … Read more

Barbara and Tom Hume got it right – mobile applications should really follow the underlying UI metaphor/behavior vs. implementing their own in an attempt to create “consistency across handsets”… From the developer's perspective, initially it may seem such consistency is the right approach, as developers are deploying the same app across many devices… but in … Read more

The bar chart below shows the results for the developer survey “Are you using “Location” in your app?”, as of June 25th, 2006. A total of 90 developers have responded. As with past polls, this poll will remain open to continue capturing developer feedback… Some observations…. The distribution between “using location” (30%) and “no need … Read more

The Mobile Context is comprised of many elements that distinguishes it from the desktop context. Some of these elements are time, space, the mobile perimeter, the social and personal aspects, and other, and how these define and effect the mobile usage and/or behavior – I will cover more of this at another time. But one … Read more

Above is a (Google) trend  graph for SMS, MMS, IM and e-mail… If we look at the MMS trend chart we will see that MMS activity has remained very flat over time, an indication of the level of interest, with much lower activity when compared to SMS, IM and e-mail. This is of no surprise. … Read more

There is a good presentation by Lara Srivastava on Mobiles for a Smaller World (PDF) that she presented during the Fifth Annual Mobility Roundtable (2006) that took place in Helsinki. Lara is a member of the international advisory committee for the mobility roundtables. Next roundtable will be held in Los Angeles California in June 2007, … Read more

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has published the Top 15 Countries in Mobile, as of January 2006… “China is by far the overall leader with 393.4 million subscribers, almost twice as many as the United States in second place with 201.7 million.” ceo [Via ITU website]

Is mobile banking finally here (I mean, in the U.S.)? It has taken financial institutions a long time to understand and feel comfortable with the technologies behind mobile banking, as well as understanding the implications to the financial institutions and to the end-users, as well as how to make money from the service. Remember the … Read more

InvenSense has released their Integrated Dual-Axis Gyroscope… Very neat, great potential. More than half a year ago I was immersed in a thinking session, when the idea of using the dimension of space for mobile applications and presence came about – and with this leveraging gyroscopes. But no gyro-enabled handsets existed at the time. Well, … Read more