01.31.07
Posted in Blogs, Developers, Mobile, Mobile Devices, News at 2:13 am by Alice Pretchet
Selena Jackson wrote a great post on her blog about more than 1 billion cell phones were shipped for the first time ever in a year in 2006, one factor for the large increase in sales was driven by a strong holiday season demand. And the two biggest suppliers posted strong gains to boost their market shares in the quarter, with number two Motorola closing the gap to industry leader Nokia on phones shipped.
And ofcourse this only means great news for mobile web developers as we should all see an increase in yearly salaries and more demand for work.
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01.04.07
Posted in Blogs, Developers, Mobile, Mobile Devices, News, Software, Widgets at 3:57 am by Alice Pretchet
Groovr Launches Mobile Social Network
Groovr is another new mobile social network that has just launched.There service is based around text messaging: you get in to a place by texting. You can track where all the users are, allowing you to find out where all your friends are by texting a question mark to the same address of the user. You can also leave comments on places and text home to signal that you are back at your house. Even more, you can send photos to the service. Users have profile pages which aggregate all their check ins, photos and friends, and there is a forum to discuss everything that does not fit elsewhere. A couple of things it does not have yet is a widget to post your location and photos on your blog but even still a big thanks to Selena for the invite.
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01.03.07
Posted in Blogs, Developers, Mobile, Mobile Devices, News at 8:37 am by Alice Pretchet
Gizmodo Mobile
Gizmodo Mobile is now up and running reports Britney Simpson who wrote a post in her blog about Gizmodo has gone Mobile and is asking anyone out there with a mobile device to view the web site and see if there are any problems viewing it with that device or browser.Gizmodo is a technology weblog dedicated to everything related to gadgets, gizmos, and cutting-edge consumer electronics. At Gizmodo you can check out the latest news, reviews and recommendations for products including laptops, cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, home entertainment and more. And for all you Gadget makers out there you can send in your Gadgets to the address below to have it possibly reviewed on thier website.
From Gizmodos website
Have a gadget you’d like us to review? Please send it to:
Gizmodo
c/o Gawker Media
81 Spring Street
New York, NY 10012
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12.27.06
Posted in Blogs, Developers, Mobile, Mobile Devices, News, Software at 11:38 am by Alice Pretchet
Verizon Wireless is going to start to allow ads on its mobile phones starting early next year, limiting what content can be advertised by advertisers and the placements of ads they run ,in order to generate more revenue.which is estimated to be in the billions by 2010. So it got me thinking that an ad free provider or some sort of Tivo like device will be advertised or invented in the near future for mobile web surfers, since consumers from radio to television have shown they love ad free entertainment and are willing to pay or switch services in order to keep it that way.Ashley must have been reading my mind when she wrote this line in her blog ”as if viewing a 3 inch screen and surfing the web from my mobile phone was’nt already slow enough compared to surfing and viewing it from my desktop and flat screen is, they had to go and make doanloading mobile web content slower and the viewing space smaller just in order to make some more money makes me mad.” So it made me think if the developemnt of software written in order to allow users to surf the mobile web ad free would be worth writing for an open source project ? Maybe if enough users complain about the ads and it costs Verizon Wireless more to deal with consumer complaints and loss of subscriptions due to the ads then it makes from them then they will just go away and such a code will never need to be written or service promoted but with so much money to be made I think it is only a matter of time before such code is written or service offered. Which makes me wonder if we will then start to see advertisments in the actual text or video we view on the mobile web in order to combat such software, an example of this is would be many television shows now have alot more product placement from advertisers in the shows themselves because of devices like Tivo an example of this would be the Star of the show drinking a certain type of beverage or wearing a certain clothing designer and the other co-stars commenting on the use of such product in a way that makes the product desirable to the viewer.Would be a terrible shame in my opinon to be reading the sports news in the future and nested in the article is something like this ” Derrick Jeter wearing his Puma cleats hit a three run homer to beat the Braves to cliched a spot for the New York Yankess in the world series ” ofcourse notice the ad for the cleats and the city of New York because of the line not mentioning the city Atlanta, just for the purposes of advertising makes me wonder if the loss of information and the adding of unneeded information is the future of information and entertainment. But enough wondering for me today I am more interested in reading what you the reader has to write abou this issue, so please chime in with your thoughts and ideas on the subjects above.
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12.08.06
Posted in Developers, Google, Mobile, News at 8:48 am by Alice Pretchet
Google for Hackers
Google for hackers is a search page in hacker laungage.You get there by clicking on the link or by typing the following http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/ also the results show up in hacker code but they bring back the same as the web results from the regular Google homepage
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