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”

 

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• Mobile Web Tabs : SHADOWGUN Gameplay E3 2011 [ iPhone, iPad, Android, Tegra ]

  
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• Mobile Web Tabs : Kiwi!

  
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  My Master’s Thesis Animation, which I completed while I was at The School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art, in New York City. Created using Maya, After Effects, and rigged using The Setup Machine by Anzovin studios. If you would like to download there is a small version at my website: www.donysanimation.com The ...
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• Mobile Web Tabs : Aboriginal Rap – Ricky C – "Nyoongah Out Da Front"

  
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  UPDATE (10 Dec 09): comments disabled – too many dickheads talking shit. this is a satirical video, take your race debate and flamefest somewhere else. oh, and i was the first to put this on youtube, so yall who have stolen my video (monkeyrilla5) can go suck a dick. get your own vids n00b! ___________________ i ...
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• Mobile Web Tabs : Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V Hands-On

  
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  The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc wasn’t the only phone getting a refresh — with the Xperia Arc S. The Xperia Neo, also launched at the beginning of this year, got it’s follow up running Gingerbread called the Xperia Neo V. Available also in white like the Arc S, the Neo V ships with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread ...
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• Mobile Web Tabs : Wondermedia WM 8650 tablet review (all over Ebay) really inexpensive tablet

  
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• Yahoo! rolls out the Axis mobile web browser for iPhone and iPad

  
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  Yahoo! just released a new app for iOS devices simply known in the App Store as Yahoo! Axis – A Search Browser. According to the app’s description, Axis is a new browser that redefines what it means to search and browse the web using your iPhone or iPad. It aims to provide a one-step search experience that lets ...
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• 168.8 million Opera Java ME tech-enabled users worldwide cant be wrong

  
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  When there are nearly 169 million people around the world who use their Java ME technology-enabled feature phones as the only way to browse the Internet, you know there is something good. See: 169 million use Opera Java ME Heres a quote: [A]s a mobile browser, Opera competes head-to-head with Apple and ...
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• HTML5 mobile web development

  
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• Developers still prefer iOS over Android, HTML5 keeps getting stronger

  
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  An interesting report from Appcelerator and IDC about mobile developers ecosystem. Appcelerator and IDC have recently published a mobile developers survey for Q1 2012. The survey included over 2,000 mobile developers and presented some interesting facts about development trends in the mobile world. In a ...
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• Yahoo Axis: Will This Get People Searching With Yahoo Again?

  
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  Earlier this week, we asked, Can search save Yahoo? ” Little did we know, the company was just about to launch its most significant search offering in quite some time. That product would be Yahoo Axis , which is one part standalone mobile browser and one part desktop browser add-on. Do you think Axis can help ...
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• 30+ Responsive Web Design Tutorials

  
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• Mobile Web Tabs : HTC Touch Pro2 – Hands-On @ MWC 2009

  
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  This thing is hot. HTC’s Touch Pro2 is bigger, brighter, and badder than the original. And the QWERTY is to die for. Check it out, hands-on from Barcelona. MORE MWC 2009 @ www.phonedog.com
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• Mobile Web Tabs : Webplus X5 Panels tutorial part1

  
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  This is part1 of tutorials on using the Panel feature in Webplus X5
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• Mobile Web Tabs : Webplus X5 Panels tutorial part1

  
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  This is part1 of tutorials on using the Panel feature in Webplus X5
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• Mobile Web Tabs : Webplus X5 Panels tutorial part1

  
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  This is part1 of tutorials on using the Panel feature in Webplus X5
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• President Obama Orders Government Agencies To Optimize Websites For Mobile Web Accessibility

  
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  President Barack Obama on Wednesday issued a directive that requires all major government agencies to make two of their key services available on mobile phones within the year. The President then ordered those agencies to create websites to report on their mobile progress, sites that are due within 90 days. In ...
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• Advanced Telecom Services Website Review

  
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  Bob Meyers, student at Indiana University, talks about mobile marketing and the website of Advanced Telecom Services .
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• The 5 Basics of Designing a top-notch Website for Mobiles

  
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  The first of the five basics is to think about the people your site is aimed towards. The best position to be in is to have your site available to as many mobile platforms as possible, but you should start by adapting the layout for the people that are most likely to use it. In other words if you deal is business to ...
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• The biggest icons collection for iPhone or mobile apps (free download)

  
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  When designing mobile apps, you often run across the need of clean, one color icons that will improve the visual look of your app without applying a “Windows” kind of look to it. I recently came across an endless collection of free icons which I’m sure can become useful for any mobile app: native or ...
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