I recently came across the September 2005 draft of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices. The key concepts are "One Web" and "MobileOK".
"One Web" champions the idea that sites should not be created "just for mobile" or "just for the desktop". Instead, one URI should be used to allow access to the same information from different […]

A new report from Telephia shows that UK 3G users are much more active than non-3G users. The report also shows that more than 30% of users used their operator’s portal exclusively while 49% used both portal and off-portal sites.
 

These figures are very encouraging. However, many UK network operators have free trial and promotional activities targetted at encouraging […]

Last week, I started upgrading applications to Series 60 3rd Edition (Symbian 9.1). As mentioned in my previous post, I had a go at using the beta version of Carbide.c++ Express. Here are some more observations and tips.
I would advise using Codewarrior 3.1 rather than Carbide.c++ or Carbide.vs. The latter two don’t work too well with existing […]

Helen Keegan has written a lengthy article on Mobile Marketing. It’s a great summary of ways you can implement mobile marketing.
Most applications I work on tend to be products that my clients have been selling stand-alone or part of a service. However, one or two have been marketing applications and I have found these have had a […]

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Today, I evaluated an alpha version of Nokia’s Carbide.c++ Express for use on Series 60 3rd Edition (Symbian 9.1) development. Carbide.c++ Express will be the free edition of the Carbide.c++ tool family and should be available early in 2006. Here are my initial impressions of the alpha version…
Carbide.C++ is Eclipse 3.1 based and provides a Winscw compiler/debugger, […]

I attended the London Mobile Monday yesterday. The topic was mobile JAVA device fragmentation. Tom Hume and Mark Curtis gave a great summary of why it’s difficult to develop for ‘all’ mobile JAVA devices. Tom’s presentation can be downloaded here. Steve Devo explained why JAVA has evolved this way and the steps being taken to address […]