Mobility

What is keeping users from really taking advantage of the handset's and the network's full potential? What is preventing mass adoption of handsets and related services? It is not the technology… It is not the users… It is not the developers… It is the cost of ownership! For example, today I went to Cingular to … Read more

M:Metrics reports that in the battle of portals in the Mobile Domain, YAHOO! HAS EARLY LEAD… OK, it is very early, early, but today, Yahoo! is the winner… The report also contains other good information/metrics, includng metrics that shows that messaging is still the #1 use/service for mobility handsets (in the U.S.) — no suprises … Read more

This is the first in a series of polls about mobility applications… Poll: Mobile AJAX vs. Java ME Some people believe that Mobile AJAX will rule mobile application development, and will make technologies such as Java ME obsolete. Others believe both technologies are complimentary. What is your opinion? Go to the Mobility Website and add … Read more

From the W3C website: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Written for all participants in the mobile value chain, the document is … Read more

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML or AJAX is hot, so hot that it has become a buzzword. Will AJAX save the day for mobility applications? Will it really displace smart clients? Will it solve the problem of market fragmentation? Porting woes? Application distribution without walls? Will AJAX replace J2ME and XHTML as I recently have read? … Read more

Definition: AJAX-based applications are Web applications based on technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This is mobile AJAX, and this is not! Why do I say this? Read here. Also, checkout the AjaxTags Project — neat, useful… [via Russ Beattie]

Everyone is talking about Google's Local for mobile application. The application is neat indeed, but what I really find interesting is all the extra “shock and awe” because the application comes from Google… I even read today a piece by Matt comparing this application to “AJAX”! Come on, it is a smart client, not a … Read more

The mobility space is pretty much divided into two: 1) business or enterprise users, and 2) consumers, which includes gamers. Many of us used to believe that “the enterprise” would be the driving force behind mobility and wireless. But that is not the case. Consumers have been the driving force behind wireless mobility. I learned … Read more

Wow, Yahoo! and Google are launching new smart clients and wireless services. I believe this annoucement to be huge… Google and Yahoo! providing their own Java ME smart clients that leverage their own back-end services directly, and/or offering MVNO-like services – wow. Talk about competition now, and trying to beat that! And what is the … Read more

You may know that I am a Java ME guy, but I have to say that Macromedia Flash Lite seems like a very awesome, robust platform for mobile applications. Just look at the following features for mobile phones, and decide for yourself: Major features of Flash Lite 1.1: HTTP-based data connectivity SVG support (playback only) … Read more