A while ago I mentioned how many mobile ads have nothing to point to and that companies should really have a cross PC and mobile strategy.
Yesterday, Google sites introduced support for mobile that provides a quick and easy way to solve these problems. However, it only claims to support iOS and Android (i.e. HTML based […]

There’s an interesting article at the GSMA on "The benefits of native versus web apps". Although  the article mentions little about the ‘benefits’, it talks more about how apps are becoming more popular than the web…
"Native apps are already capturing 50 percent of all data volume, stealing share from the web browser"
We are told that…
"App […]

One of my readers, Nikolay from the Ukraine emailed me today about research by Global Intelligence Alliance: "Native or Web Application? How Best to Deliver Content and Services to Your Audiences over the Mobile Phone".
It’s an interesting read. However, I think the report is optimistic about the timescales to get phone functionality into […]

I have been doing some research on mobile web apps and came across a useful graph at StatCounter that shows the top 9 mobile browsers from Oct 09 to Oct 10. It interesting to see that the iPhone browser is actually declining while BlackBerry and Android are seeing steady growth.
 
I can understand how growth of […]

While reading the UK paper version of Wired this weekend, I came across an article "The Web Is Dead, Long Live the Internet" , by Chris Anderson, that was also a cover feature in the US version of the magazine.
The premise is that the rise of the iPhone ‘app’ model of mobile computing is […]

dotMobi have a new "Web-based service that lets developers create mobile sites that appear correctly on all phones across all carriers".
To promote the service they are having a competition with the winners receiving 100 free goMobi accounts to create mobile sites for their clients and to get exposure through PR activities. You…
"…sign up at the […]

If you are creating mobile web sites (as many people increasing are) then you might like to take a look at Modernizr. It’s a Javascript library that allows you to easily detect if particular HTML5 feature exists or not.
If you wish to do the detection yourself you might also like to take a […]