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”

• Palm Pre Sales in “Substantial Decline”: Analyst

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 801
  Palm’s bet on webOS isn’t paying many dividends, according to a research note issued by Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar this morning. Domestic sell-through checks point to a “substantial decline” in recent sales of the Pre, Kumar said, and slashing the price to $99 hasn’t helped much. Nor is the ...
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• Music Service Spotify Announces Partnership with 3 UK

  
  The Truth Bar — Authority: 130
  In its drive to improve its portability, online music service Spotify has announced its plans to enter into a partnership with 3 UK to put its service on their new range of phones. Spotify allows people to access music from a voluminous collection, though they can access it only if their friends invite them ...
  15 hours ago

• 3 in Another Music Service Deal, this Time with Spotify

  
  All Things CD-ROM/DVD and More — Authority: 128
  Digital music provider Spotify has recently signed a deal with UK’s mobile operator 3. The deal will allow 3’s mobile handset users easy access to Spotify’s music library at an yet-to-be-determined tariff. This deal will significantly increase Spotify’s reach in the market. As of now, the music ...
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• It’s lonely out there in Vodafone 360 world

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 592
  Rating: Waiting for Vodo to launch more 360 clients One of the benefits of Vodafone’s new 360 service is that you can keep track of what your chums are up to. There’s only one snag. At present the only mates you can track directly are other owners of the Samsung H1 360 phone. GoMo News doublechecked this point ...
  16 hours ago

• Game changer or change of gears?

  
  Bango blog — Authority: 395
  Google acquired AdMob for $750millionWhat Google’s acquisition of AdMob means to the mobile advertising industryWhile the valuation given to Admob by Google may be surprisingly high (for a company with maybe $40-$50m in annual revenues) the fact of the acquisition surprises no-one.It’s a great achievement for ...
  17 hours ago

• Want to win 9 million dollars on your mobile? Get gaming

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 592
  We’ve encountered Spin3 a couple of times before. Partnered with on-line gaming company Microgaming, Spin3 runs one of the biggest mobile casino games sites in the world. Now it has announced a new mobile game - one with the largest on-line jackpot ever created: €6 million, almost $9 million. Since Spin3 ...
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• How Telenor Leveraged Social Media For Brand Promotion

  
  State of Telecom Industry in Pakistan — Authority: 432
  Just a decade ago, traditional media such as print, radio and tv dominated the marketing budgets. Today its a completely different world: two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit a social network or blogging site and the sector now accounts for almost 10% of all internet time, according to a recently ...
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• Droid Gets 1.59% Mobile Market Share Already… Wow!

  
  GSM Dome - Mobile Phone News — Authority: 444
  The folks of Getclicky have revealed an impressive feat of the freshly launched Droid handset recently: turns out that the device already gets 1.59% of the web browser market share in the US. Getclicky shows the daily web browsing marketshare for mobile phones, by calculating it from all traffic generated on the ...
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• Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Pre Mobile Web 2Day: Michael Jackson Mobile

  
  WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS — Authority: 544
  Sony Music with AzukiSystems will create mobile versions of its artist websites, offering video,photos, news, and more for the music fan on the go with the Michael Jacksons official website will be the first mobile site tolaunch at  m.michaeljackson.com. The Michael Jackson mobile website will featureMichael ...
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• How You Can Use Twitter to Market Your Products

  
  Affiliate Marketing Reviews — Authority: 128
  Do you sell online? Whether you run a full-fledge online store or if you only sell a few products on eBay, your success depends on marketing. After all, if consumers do not know you have products for sale, you will…
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• #defrag 2009: Open Sets, Group Think on Social Media

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  The Open Sets portion of the Defrag 2009 agenda concluded this morning. Open Sets are just that: opportunities to pose the burning questions that keep attendees up at night and discuss potential, successful solutions in group think format.Topics posed included:Early adopter program for the enterprise — how do we ...
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• IBM Offers Developers Free Cloud Services for Development and Testing

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  Following the developmental environment trend, IBM (news, site) recently gave the green light on their own pair of public and private services targeted at building cloud applications.Read full story… Follow us on Twitter Credit:IBM Offers Developers Free Cloud Services for Development and Testing ...
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• Platformic Web CMS Offers Integrated Social Media Modules

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  Platformic has gone social. The online web development environment (OWDE) that mixes content and design has launched SocialSite, a social media platform.Designed as an integrated social media creation environment aimed at helping companies build highly customizable, complex user communities, SocialSite can be set up ...
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• metaio launches World’s First Social Augmented Reality Platform: junaio

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 592
  SAN FRANCISCO – November 11, 2009 – metaio today announced that users can now generate 3D augmented reality experiences on their iPhones by downloading junaio, a free application available in the Apple App Store. Users without an iPhone can also be part of the experience and edit/share 3D augmented reality images ...
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• Clearwell Receives US Patent for Components of eDiscovery Platform

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  Congratulations are in order. Clearwell Systems (news, site) has been awarded US Patent No. 7,593,995.For those of us who are not patent examiners, US Patent No. 7,593,995 refers to “methods and systems of electronic message threading and ranking.”Read full story… Follow us on Twitter Read more ...
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• Open Text Provides Fax Services for Exchange 2010

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  Earlier this week Mimosa Systems (news, site) announced its NearPoint archiving solution would support Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (MES 2010). Now Open Text (news, site) a2a_linkname="Open Text Provides Fax Services for Exchange ...
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• Memopal Offers Free Cloud Storage Option

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
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• KM World Announces Finalists for 2009 Promise and Reality Awards

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  It is getting close to the end of the year and as well as all the happy, good will stuff, it’s also the time for awards and jockeying for best position in the market to kick-off 2010. Yesterday we gave you Gartner’s ECM Magic Quadrant, today it’s the finalists for the KM [...]
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• ImpressCMS Wins 2009 Most Promising Open Source CMS

  
  Blogging — Authority: 150
  This week Packt (news, site) is announcing one new award winner a day. Already they’ve revealed that Plone (news, site) won 2009 Best Other Open Source CMS, and Drupal (news, site) won Best Open Source PHP CMS.Today’s category is for the 2009 Most Promising Open Source CMS. Congratulations to the winner, ...
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• AAS Insight 94 podcast

  
  biskero — Authority: 131
  Via AllAboutSymbian , the AAS Insight 94 podcast is now available. SEE 2009 Extras – Nokia 6788 and EKA2 kernel Ovi Store re-downloads Google Mobile Search with voice recognition Opera 10 Mobile Symbian release Symbian UI concept video iPlayer update to version 2.5 Alessandro
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