Archive for category Mobile

Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface

Posted by DMB Writer in Mobile, RSS on September 23rd, 2009

By: smashingmagazine.com Though many computer applications and operating systems make use of real-world metaphors like the desktop, most software interface design has little to do with how we actually experience the real world. In lots of cases, there are great reasons not to directly mimic reality. Not doing so allows us to create interfaces that enable people [...]

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Publishing execs embracing mobile

Posted by DMB Writer in Mobile, RSS on September 22nd, 2009

By: btobonline.com Schaumburg, Ill.—Almost 70% of newspaper and magazine executives surveyed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations say that publishing for mobile devices is receiving more attention at their publication this year than last. The ABC Monday released the findings of the online survey, which polled newspaper, consumer magazine and trade publication executives……..[read entire story]

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How Mobile Technology Is Changing Banking’s Future

Posted by DMB Writer in Mobile, RSS on September 21st, 2009

By: adage.com NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Recent technological developments that allow for deposits by iPhone and mobile payments could one day make ATMs as quaint as brick-and-mortar bank branches. But the biggest impact may be on the ability of banks — and even nontraditional players such as Nokia — to find new revenue streams as they branch [...]

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Thinking Mobile Key to Future of Technology

Posted by mavrasin in Mobile, RSS on September 21st, 2009

By Sheila Shayon The message behind Mediabistro’s ThinkMobile conference, held Sept. 16 in New York City, was straightforward: mobile is steadily marching forward and the hyper-local genie will not only never fit back in the bottle, it’s destined to create and inhabit the largest cloud computing presence we have ever known. Marco Argenti, VP of media for [...]

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Pay Up: The Wall Street Journal Tries Charging Web Subscribers for Mobile Access

Posted by DMB Writer in Mobile, RSS on September 19th, 2009

By: mediamemo.allthingsd.com How on earth does The Wall Street Journal expect its subscribers to pay an additional fee to read the newspaper on a mobile phone? It doesn’t. Except when it does. Contrary to News Corp. (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch’s comments earlier in the week, Dow Jones will not be charging customers who subscribe to both its [...]

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Apps hot right now, but mobile Web will win: digiday panelist

Posted by DMB Writer in Mobile, RSS on September 19th, 2009

By: mobilemarketer.com NEW YORK - Will applications finally monetize mobile media and marketing from the years of hype, big promises and frustrating potential? That issue was deliberated on by panelists during the digiday: Mobile conference yesterday in New York’s W hotel on Lexington Avenue. The experts discussed what the future really holds for the mobile application and if there is a [...]

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The Mobile Conundrum: Cross-platformization

Posted by mavrasin in Mobile, RSS on September 18th, 2009

By Will Snizek The mobile community has been asking for cross-platform mobile support for Microsoft Office and they are finally getting it. Microsoft and Nokia have created a partnership that will bring Microsoft Office to mobile devices. This next step in Microsoft Office will most likely take place when the standard Office 2010 is released. The world’s [...]

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Mobile Browser Wars: Style vs. Substance

Posted by mavrasin in Mobile, RSS on September 18th, 2009

By Jason Townsend-Rogers The user experience for browsing on mobile phones varies depending on what type of phone you’re using. Each of these browsers have notable differences between them, but it really comes down to two issues: do you value style and simplicity, or features and complexity? The choices between the best mobile browsing platforms initially came [...]

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Connecting Brands and Women on Mobile Devices

Posted by DMB Writer in Mobile, RSS on September 17th, 2009

By: clickz.com Over the last six months or so, there have been some high-profile efforts to use mobile marketing by some advertisers with traditionally female targets. Charmin and Kraft built some useful apps that generated a lot of buzz in the trades and garnered many downloads by consumers. But it also appears that those efforts strayed [...]

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Keeping It Wide Open: Mobile Cloud Computing

Posted by mavrasin in Mobile, RSS on September 17th, 2009

By Marc Vrijhof Until recently cloud computing looked almost exclusively to be about PC networks. Today native mobile application developers and analysts have discovered mobile cloud computing. This seems the result of the proliferation of smart phones, and the workforce’s expressed need to get mobile access to (corporate) data when at home, in the factory or [...]

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Hip Hop All Star Mobile Game Trailer

Posted by Will Snizek in Mobile, Video Games on August 14th, 2009

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