Jacob Nielsen in his latest Alert Box discusses the Netcraft November 2006 Web Server Survey. He suggests that the Web has experienced three growth stages: A) 1991-1997: Explosive growth, at a rate of 850% per year. B) 1998-2001: Rapid growth, … Continue reading
Hot Mobile News Sprint to offer Google e-mail for mobile phones Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest U.S. wireless services provider, will start offering a mobile version of Google Inc.’s e-mail service to encourage subscribers to use features besides calling. Bang … Continue reading
Hot Mobile News Study: for most, all-in-one phones aren’t A study by In-Stat shows that phones with extra goodness packed in aren’t prompting their owners to leave other devices behind. Over half of multimedia phone owners are still toting a … Continue reading
Hot Mobile News Streamlined Opera Mini browser headed to BlackBerry and Treo Opera is the browser-of-choice on Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii. The tried and true Opera Mini browser is streamlining itself for use on BlackBerry and Treo handhelds. Unlike other browsers, … Continue reading
This post follows on from the earlier post on the Genesis of StayGoLinks. The CDAP of this title is an acronym for Cross-browser Device Assessment Panel. This facility was developed by the Cre8asite Forums in the early months of 2006. … Continue reading
Hot Mobile News New York Times goes mobile-friendly A mobile-friendly version of the New York Times can now be viewed with a PDA or mobile phone with web-browsing capabilities. The NYT announced the new site can be found at http://mobile.nytimes.com. … Continue reading
Hot Mobile News Hauppage TV Anywhere media streaming device The thing that sets TV Anywhere apart from other TV tuners is that it is supplied with an extra piece of software called Orb. This clever program allows TV recordings to … Continue reading
Clearly the biggest problem in trying to get both Desktop PCs and Mobile Devices to display web pages in a satisfactory way is the vastly different size of screen. There’s an excellent AListApart article on that, which describes the problem … Continue reading
Hot Mobile News Smart mobile device growth remains steady at 55% The latest research from Canalys highlights the continuing shift from handhelds to converged devices. Overall year-on-year market growth of all smart mobile devices was largely unchanged from the previous … Continue reading
Even if there would appear to be a Mobile Divide between the Mobile world and the Desktop world, there is a good deal of effort going into bridging that divide. This will be achieved if the One Web Principle is … Continue reading