Mobile Web Archive

  • GoMobi tries to make it easy for SMBs to jump on the mobile web

    GoMobi tries to make it easy for SMBs to jump on the mobile web

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Small businesses often have trouble developing and maintaining traditional websites, so it should be no surprise that adding a mobile-friendly website is a cost that many SMBs simply won't be able to justify. The folks behind the .mobi domain are trying to remedy that with their new GoMobi initiative. They're rolling out a setup assistant and hosting deals with a few select registrar partners, allowing anyone to easily setup a mobile website.

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  • Taptu announces new U.S. office to be lead by new President, Mitch Lazar

    Taptu announces new U.S. office to be lead by new President, Mitch Lazar

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Taptu, the company indexing mobile touch friendly content, announces today that they're opening an office in the U.S. to drive business development, marketing and product management in response to rapid growth in the North American audience. The new office, to be located in Denver, Colorado will be lead by Mitch Lazar, formerly of Yahoo! Mobile Europe.

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  • Hey UK folks: Marks and Spencer now has a mobile website

    Hey UK folks: Marks and Spencer now has a mobile website

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    While the iPad may be too confusing for the British, that's not stopping UK retailer Marks and Spencer from rolling out a mobile version of their website. I guess if you're the kind of person who shops at Marks and Spencer this might be good news for you. And while m.marksandspencer.com is not a particularly mobile-friendly URL to key in, the site does helpfully explain upon your first visit how to make a home screen icon from Mobile Safari by pressing the + icon.

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  • The Mobile Web continues to expand, according to Taptu

    The Mobile Web continues to expand, according to Taptu

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    The proliferation of mobile content has caught Taptu (and a lot of other people) by surprise. Perhaps unsurprisingly the number of mobile applications has also increased rather dramatically. There's an interesting balance to be struck for content producers between device-specific applications and app stores, and the general availability, but reduced functionality, of a mobile web site. Taptu's latest report explores these details.

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  • NetWalker PC-T1: Sharp announces mini tablet for Japan for next month

    NetWalker PC-T1: Sharp announces mini tablet for Japan for next month

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    The iPad hasn't landed in Japan yet, giving domestic competitors some room for their own announcements for tablet PCs. Sharp, for example, today unveiled [JP] the NetWalker PC-T1, which looks like a tablet variant of the PC-Z1 the company introduced last year. Both models look pretty similar, it's just that the older device lost the keyboard to become the T1.

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  • Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years

    Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    As smartphones like the iPhone and Android take over the mobile Web, the amount of data traffic going over cellular networks is expected to grow 40-fold over the next five years. UK firm Coda Research Consultancy forecasts that in the U.S. alone mobile handset data traffic will grow from 8 terabytes/month this year to 327 terabytes/month in 2015. That amounts to a 117 percent compound annual growth rate. A lot of that data will come in the form of mobile Web browsing, with the biggest contributor expected to be mobile video. By 2015, mobile video will account for 68.5 percent of all mobile data usage in the U.S. (or 224 terabytes/month). Coda estimates that 95 million mobile handset subscribers in the U.S. will be watching video on their phones in five years out of a total of 158 million mobile internet users.

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  • Mobile web may beat out mobile apps in the long run

    Mobile web may beat out mobile apps in the long run

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Taptu, the mobile search solution, has been keeping an eye on the mobile web -- specifically what they're calling the mobile touch web, which I guess is slightly different from the non-touch mobile web -- and has produced a fairly comprehensive report of their findings. Of particular interest is the fact that "there are a higher proportion of shopping and services sites on the mobile touch Web (20%) compared to Apple’s App Store (3.6%)." According to Taptu, this is because "the mobile touch Web provides the opportunity for direct-to-consumer billing."

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  • FCC gives Verizon the third degree over $350 ‘advanced device’ ETF

    FCC gives Verizon the third degree over $350 ‘advanced device’ ETF

    Posted on December 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Early termination fees have always represented the flipside of subsidized pricing -- the necessary evil that keeps free phones free. Thing is, they were tough enough to swallow at $175 or $200, but Verizon's recently gone for the jugular in a hell-bent effort to keep subscribers locked in by upping the fee on vaguely-defined "advanced devices" (read: any phone a power user would ever want) all the way up to a mind-bending $350. Turns out the FCC is as confused and worked up as everyone else, though, having fired off a 4-page communique to Verizon's veep of legal and external affairs today asking how customers are notified of the new ETF, how the prorating formula is calculated (hint: they don't like that you still pay $120 after 23 months of a 24-month contract), and how an "advanced device" comes to be, among other things. Riding on the letter are a few extra questions about inadvertent mobile web charges for customers that aren't signed up for a data plan, totaling nine paragraph-long queries that the feds want answered by December 17. Your move, Verizon.

    [Thanks, Daniel P.]

    FCC gives Verizon the third degree over $350 'advanced device' ETF originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Verizon “Mobile Web” service currently down

    Verizon “Mobile Web” service currently down

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments

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    We've been getting a slow trickle of tips telling us that Verizon's Mobile Web service is currently down nationwide, with no ETA on a fix. That's Mobile Web, the featurephone service, not, you know, big-boy data, so chances are you're fine -- our various VZW smartphones are unaffected. (Although we did have a dropped call and some spotty voice quality on a DROID this morning -- ruh roh.) We'll let you know if we hear further.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Verizon "Mobile Web" service currently down originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • From the 3G Industry Summit in Kunshan, China: 16 demos from Chinese mobile startups

    From the 3G Industry Summit in Kunshan, China: 16 demos from Chinese mobile startups

    Posted on October 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Earlier this week, I was in Kunshan, China, to attend the 3G Industry Summit [CN], a four-day event that has attracted a few dozen speakers and an audience of over 200 people, making it one of the biggest of its kind in this country. The annual event is organized by the Kunshan government and Mobile 2.0 Forum, a communication platform with more than 1,500 members, almost single-handedly run by industry veteran Leo Wang. The summit reassured me of one thing: The Chinese market for mobile hardware, software and contents is big already and it's bound to become huge in the very near future. Information and stats on China's mobile web sector and profiles of 16 Chinese mobile startups after the jump.

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