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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
An interesting week on space-related activities… STS-123 The Space Shuttle STS-123 mission launched into its 16 day mission; and busy is the crew delivering pieces for the International Space Station (ISS). This is the the 25th shuttle mission to the ISS. It is pretty cool to see back to back missions. STS-123 launched at night, … Read more
Austin, Texas-based eZee inc. is looking to fill permanent positions with experienced developers, and quality assurance engineers, to help create the next generation of mobile commerce and marketing products and services. If you have passion for mobile technologies, you’ll want to work here. At eZee you will literally help define and implement the future of … Read more
We had a great MobileMonday Austin event last night. I want to thank the speakers David Gill (Nielsen Mobile), James Pearce (dotMobi), Brian Fling (BlueFlavor), and Chris Moisan (Taptu). And thank you to our sponsors dotMobi and the Austin Wireless Alliance. We had guest attendees from out of town who were attending SXSW Interactive, and … Read more
OK, not fame, but (total) embarrassment. It was I who accidentally turned the lights off at Kathy Sierra’s panel at SXSW. A full room, with hundreds, perhaps thousands of people. The room went dark… there was confusion. Kathy said “it’s dark, I can’t see the audience, please someone, turn on the light… someone please!” The … Read more
I’m leaving to pick up my badge… It very possibly is going to be quiet in my blog for the next few days… Tomorrow is BarCampAustin, and Monday is MoMo Austin… If you are in Austin, see you around! My contact info on the side bar in my blog. ceo
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
**** Reminder **** Hello all… a quick reminder about Monday’s MobileMonday Austin event… …and it is going to be SWEET! — I am very excited about the speaker lineup… and the folks from out of town who are visiting us! Topics: dotMobi, Mobile Web, iPhone, Mobile Search, and industry trends right from the source: Nielsen … 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