Posts Tagged with ‘mobile-web’

The launch of the iPhone (shortly followed by the iPod Touch) seemed to fuel developer's desires to create mobile-specific web applications despite the device's ability to access the entire internet (without the WAP/WML limitations of most mobile devices). Many mobile web users find the wireless application protocol (WAP) too restrictive and slow, greatly limiting what WAP browsers can access on the internet. On the other hand, all mobile devices (even the iPhone) have small screens and excessive scrolling can be [...]

To increase the footprint of Google's AdWords service from online advertising to print advertising, the search engine giant is relying on a new implementation of barcode technology. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Google is placing high expectations on small, square barcodes (as seen in the image at left) to be strategically placed at the bottom of print ads. These barcodes can then be scanned by a reader with a compatible camera phone, which would then instantly direct their phone's [...]

I couldn't resist the title for this article since I've jumped so whole-heartedly on the desire for what's coming next. Yahoo announced the latest version of their mobile platform at CES, and hopes it's going to be the platform that finally unites the mobile web.
Yahoo Go 3.0 is what CEO Jerry Wang hopes will “get Yahoo yodeling again.” With its new development environment built in XML called Blueprint, the hope is that the ease of development and a forthcoming SDK [...]

I am really pleased to announce today that we are now able to provide our readers with a mobile reading experience. I know for sure that a good number of our readers are heavy mobile users and we have been approached a number of times by some of the readers asking to launch some mobile-friendly version of Profy.
After we reported on FeedM8 impressive progress we have decided to use their service to create a mobile version for the Profy [...]

Today, Google Blogoscoped has announced that the mobile version of Google Docs is now available to users of the online office suite.
Last month, it was discovered that there were mobile-designed pages available with a link leading to docs.google.com/m, but at the time the URL resulted in a 404 error.
The Google Help Center has posted that the only devices officially supported are the iPhone and Blackberry devices while only mentioning for owners of other mobile devices that "a good rule of [...]

The mobile web is quickly surging in popularity, as the recent launch of AdSense for Mobile and resumed Firefox mobile development have shown.
FeedM8, a unique service that converts RSS feeds into a mobile-friendly format, is now the latest to experience the rush to go mobile first-hand, having announced that its publisher network has seen a massive increase in member sites, having added 1,000 new websites within the last 30 days alone.
The Toronto-based company officially launched the service in August [...]

Lately Google has been making a lot of moves to increase its footprint on the mobile web, with the recent acquisition of GrandCentral and launch of AdSense for mobile, but one of their first mobile services has almost been forgotten.
Mobile social software Dodgeball, which was purchased by Google in 2005, basically allowed users to notify other users of their location, thereby allowing them to meet for, say, a drink at the bar. It had a lot of potential as a [...]

For quite some time now, many (though not too many; let’s not get ahead of ourselves here) wireless phone-wielding peoples around the world have been experiencing mobile music downloads. Most use carrier-supplied Web portals formatted for their supplies of various digital audio-friendly devices to perform these over-the-air transactions. Some, of course, do this job terribly. Others are okay at it. And some actually pull the process off fairly well.
Just not well enough, right?
Yesterday, though, things changed – for the [...]

If you’re one of the lucky few to win an iPhone through our blogging competition here on Profy, or a US-based consumer who fell under Infinite Loop’s spell and laid down some hefty coin to have one as your own, you likely want to know about all the virtual places you can go to get the most out of your multi-touch miracle.
Actually, scratch that. You probably already do know of all such locales. Well, in that case, how about we [...]