Mobile Web

The mobile web refers to the process of accessing the Internet from a portable device other than a typical desktop or laptop computer. Typically, the mobile web is accessed while in a location other than the home or office. Web-enabled cell phones are the most common mobile devices used to access the mobile web, although other gadgets like MP3 players and e-book readers are increasingly offering Internet capabilities.

Usage of the mobile web has been hampered in the past by several factors, including inadequate devices, slow wireless network speeds, and poorly developed web content.

Device manufacturers have redoubled efforts to improve web browsing, lead in large part by Apple's iPhone which features their Safari web browser in an almost-complete form.

Wireless network speeds are also improving with 3G coming of age and 4G in the works.

Marketers, web designers, developers, and copywriters are making efforts to ensure that mobile web users are treated to content that is optimized for small screens as well as the users' mobile context.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Mobile Web”

• OpenMoko now available in South Africa

  
  Web AddiCT(s); — Authority: 470
  The open source mobile phone, OpenMoko Neo Freerunner, is now available in South Africa. When Your Web AddiCT was up in Jozi this week I was lucky enough to meet Nyasha Mutsekwa, CEO of EngineeringIdeas. They have teamed up with Openmoko to distribute the Neo Freerunner to Africa. The Neo Freerunner is an open-source ...
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• Palm Released webOS 1.3.1

  
  RizwanAshraf.com — Authority: 140
  Palm has released a new update of their mobile operating system, webOS 1.3.1. The new version of OS includes minor bug fixes and many new features as games, Google Maps, Yahoo IM support are also the...
  15 hours ago

• Mobile Web Programmers

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 179
  Very simple 5 page websites for mobile phones – need quick work. We will provide all graphics, text and design.
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• Tweetdeck On iPhone Update Rocks

  
  Michele Neylon :: Pensieri — Authority: 408
  Image via CrunchBase Ive been trying out a number of different Twitter clients on the iPhone over the last few months. I currently have three or four clients installed, but I keep coming back to Tweetdeck. In many respects its because I like uniformity. I like being able to use the same software on my various ...
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• Smartphone mobile internet view choices with Novarra Vision

  
  Smart Phones for Sale — Authority: 139
  Novarra Vision mobile browser offers users the choice of PC layout or mobile ‘Fit to Screen’ view that makes better use of screen, improves speed and reduces over the air data. Technorati Tags: mobile internet , mobile web usability , Smartphone Related posts: Nokia E90 Unlocked GSM ...
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• Journalism, civil society and mobile networks

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 462
  Jude Mathurine from Rhodes University has an interesting presentation on the impact of mobile phone based use of social networks in Africa . I’ve not yet come across a comparable study of new media’s use and impact in Sri Lanka, but the points on slides 3 and 7, noting that the Internet is still an elite medium ...
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• Living in New York? See and Hear Sony Ericsson at Web 2.0 EXPO

  
  Just Another Entertainment & Lifestyle Blog — Authority: 419
  Yes, if you’re in New York, you can see the latest phones from Sony Ericsson such as Xperia X2, Satio, Aino and Yari, and even the newly announced Xperia X10, the first Android powered phone from Sony Ericsson, at Web 2.0 EXPO at the Javits Center, New York, USA, November 16-19, 2009.Here’s the news from [...]
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• Verizon Droid roundup: tethering, multi-touch and mobile metrics

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 579
  It’s the first week after launch, so Droid is still in the honeymoon period. There are a fresh batch of stories every day - and today GoMo News has grabbed the three we found most interesting. Hackers allow Droid tethering: As we all found out after the CyanogenMod incident , Google has it’s work cut out ...
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• Speak truth to power: Facebook’s Joe Hewitt on abandoning iPhone development

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 148
  Joe Hewitt, the one-man powerhouse behind Facebook’s iPhone app, explained more of the reasoning behind his decision to leave the project earlier this week. He stopped developing Facebook’s popular app out of frustration with Apple’s review process. The issue (as it has been for a long time) is Apple’s ...
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• Do Verizon Phones Have Intentional Design "Flaws" That Scam You Into Data Charges? [Verizon]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
      Have you ever got hit with a $1.99 data charge on your Verizon bill for accidentally hitting a button that connects you to ” Get It Now ” or ” Mobile Web ?” This design “flaw” might be netting Verizon $300 million per year. A tipster writing to David Pogue claims to work at Verizon, and he ...
  2 days ago

• Do Verizon Phones Have Intentional Design "Flaws" That Scam You Into Data Charges? [Verizon]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 895
  Have you ever got hit with a $1.99 data charge on your Verizon bill for accidentally hitting a button that connects you to " Get It Now " or " Mobile Web ?" This design "flaw" might be netting Verizon $300 million per year. A tipster writing to David Pogue claims to work at Verizon, and he explained his own moral ...
  2 days ago

• Qualcomm gets busy making 4G as painless as possible

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 579
  Qualcomm has announced an initiative to smoothly help mobile operators around the world get their users ready for 4G/LTE . In co-operation with a truly impressive line-up of manufacturers, the chipset maker plans to sneak 4G chips into mobile devices that are currently being released. What’s going on? ...
  2 days ago

• Dell confirms hobbled Android mobile launch for China

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 579
  So Dell has confirmed that its long-awaited smartphone launch will take place in China and Brazil by the end of the year. As we have come to expect from Dell, the announcement contains so little information that it almost wasn’t worth making. But we can piece together a lot of info from what has come before - ...
  2 days ago

• Editorial: Hey, AT&T — drop lawsuits, not calls

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
  AppleInsider published a piece this week that does a good job rounding up the latest counterarguments we’ve been hearing against Verizon’s claims in its suddenly ultra-aggressive attacks on archrival AT&T’s network — attacks that have offended AT&T right into getting the legal team involved. Both sides ...
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• Verizon Configures Phones So You Incur Erroenous Data Charges? (To The Tune Of $300 Million) [Verizon]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 777
  If you have a Verizon phone, youve probably at one point accidentally hit a button that connects you to " Get It Now " or " Mobile Web ." Arg. And its double-arg when it turns out that even if you cancel right away, you still get hit with a $1.99 1MB data charge. According to a tipster, this is totally on purpose. A ...
  2 days ago

• Editorial: Hey, AT&T — drop lawsuits, not calls

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 164
  AppleInsider published a piece this week that does a good job rounding up the latest counterarguments weve been hearing against Verizons claims in its suddenly ultra-aggressive attacks on archrival AT&Ts network -- attacks that have offended AT&T right into getting the legal team involved. Both sides are ...
  2 days ago

• Google officially “welcomes” Gizmo5 by halting new user sign ups

  
  TOYS and GADGETs | News | Reviews | Videos — Authority: 168
  Section: Communications , VoIP , Mobile , Web , Google Sure, we all knew about the Google acquisition of VoIP provider Gizmo5 , and we were able to speculate about things that would happen. But now, courtesy of the Google Voice Blog we are getting a look at the first moves. And in typically Google fashion, ...
  2 days ago

• Google officially “welcomes” Gizmo5 by halting new user sign ups

  
  Gadgetell — Authority: 643
  Section: Communications , VoIP , Mobile , Web , Google Sure, we all knew about the Google acquisition of VoIP provider Gizmo5 , and we were able to speculate about things that would happen. But now, courtesy of the Google Voice Blog we are getting a look at the first moves. And in typically Google fashion, ...
  2 days ago

• WordPress Wins Packt Overall Best Open Source CMS

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  This week Packt (news, site) has announced one winner a day for its 2009 Open Source CMS awards. Already they’ve revealed that:Plone (news, site) won 2009 Best Other Open Source CMSDrupal (news, site) won 2009 Best Open Source PHP CMS and the first inaugural 2009 Hall of Fame awardImpressCMS (news, site) won 2009 ...
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• ZyLAB Names Pieter Varkevisser New President and CEO

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  The team over at a2a_linkname="ZyLAB Names Pieter Varkevisser New President and CEO";a2a_linkurl="http://www.frenzyblogging.com/2009/11/13/zylab-names-pieter-varkevisser-new-president-and-ceo/";
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