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  • Brookstone mobile site augmented with video

    Brookstone mobile site augmented with video

    Posted on June 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Brookstone, the specialty product retailer in malls across America, recently rolled out an updated mobile website complete with video to augment product descriptions. The site was developed by Usablenet, the same folks that recently worked on the Marks and Spencer mobile site. The site follows the footsteps of the Marks and Spencer site, and offers another good point of reference for successful mobile design, in case you needed "inspiration" for your own mobile design efforts.

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  • 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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  • Hey, what about OS X?

    Hey, what about OS X?

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s interesting that this WWDC keynote was all about mobile. Obviously he had a big reveal this year – last year was all about the 3GS and Snow Leopard – but there was a decided lack of desktop talk this year. iOS looks like the horse Apple is betting on, at least this year. The uptake [...]

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  • T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson announces his departure

    T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson announces his departure

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    It's been a really uproarious week for CEOs in the tech community -- and it looks like the fun is not quite over yet. Early this morning T-Mobile USA announced the departure of CEO Robert Dotson after 15 years with the company. His resignation will take effect in February of 2011, and he'll stay on the company's board until May, with former T-Mobile Deutschland CEO Philip Humm stepping in to fill his shoes. There aren't many other details available regarding the reason for his departure, but we'll keep our ear to the ground for you. The full press release follows.

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    T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson announces his departure originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 May 2010 12:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • You’re playing a lot of mobile games on the subway, aren’t you?

    You’re playing a lot of mobile games on the subway, aren’t you?

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    You're on the subway on the way to work. It's not a long trip, maybe 15 to 20 minutes long if you're coming in from an outer borough. You have to kill the time somehow lest you be alone in your thoughts for a few moments. What do you do? If we're to believe a new survey, then you' may well whip out your phone to play a video game. Back in the day, people would have had a paperback or magazine handy. Times, they are a....

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  • Facebook launches free mobile access site for emerging markets… and Denmark

    Facebook launches free mobile access site for emerging markets… and Denmark

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_launches_free_mobile_access_for_emerging_markets'; Following in the footsteps of Coca-Cola, Facebook is seeking to feed your addiction with a new zero version of its online service. 0.facebook.com leads users to a stripped down, text-only version of the social site, which will incur no data charges from your carrier. Of course, you won't be able to access any other sites or rich media without paying for it, but at least the core functionality of reading your friends' witty status updates and writing satirical responses will be there free of charge. This service is being rolled out primarily in the so-called emerging markets, though more mature environments like Belgium, Denmark and Finland are also present on the list (available after the break). SFR in France, 3 in the UK, and Australia's Telstra are also going to be joining in soon. Guess it's just a matter of finding a pliable carrier to accede to offering the minimal bandwidth necessary in exchange for being Liked by Facebookers.

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    Facebook launches free mobile access site for emerging markets... and Denmark originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 03:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 includes AT&T tethering option

    iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 includes AT&T tethering option

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    See that screen there? That's from the minty fresh beta 4 of iPhone OS 4.0, which was just released to developers moments ago. Unless our eyes are badly mistaken, that's an option to setup internet tethering on AT&T, something that WWAN warriors have been waiting for since... oh, forever. We're downloading the new build as we speak, and we'll let you know if we find anything out. Oh, and don't get your hopes up too high -- AT&T proclaimed that it was "still waiting on better network performance" before enabling iPhone tethering just three weeks ago.

    Update: There's a video of the screens after the break, just in case your belief was temporarily suspended for any reason. Thanks, Jerish!

    Update 2: Well, this is interesting -- we just updated an iPhone 3GS in Chicago, and we're not seeing the tethering option. We're guessing this is a glitch or just a mismatched carrier setting file, since so many others are seeing it, but we'll do some digging and see what's up.

    Update 3: Okay, we've got it sorted -- all it took was a quick network settings reset. Thanks, Gray!

    [Thanks, Pete]

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    iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 includes AT&T tethering option originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 21:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls

    Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Ever notice how easy it is to find mobile plans with unlimited minutes these days? Yeah, it's because they're about as valuable as pea coats in the dead of summer. With more and more consumers disconnecting their landlines in favor of using their cellie for everything, the art of communicating via voice is also becoming lost. According to "government and industry data" cited in a New York Times report, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has "stagnated," with 2009 being the first year ever in which the "amount of data in text, email messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices [in the US] surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls." Dan Hesse, Sprint's head honcho, even chimed in with this nugget: "Originally, talking was the only cellphone application; now it's less than half of the traffic on mobile networks." We also learned that the average length of a mobile call was just 1.81 minutes in 2009, a drop from the 2.27 minutes per call seen in 2008, with many individuals feeling that other communication methods (email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) were far less invasive of someone's time, being that they could respond to those messages at their convenience. Of course, on the Upper East Side (where all the richies use Verizon dumbphones, apparently), we get the impression that yakking away about a cornucopia of drama is still the hotness.

    Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 May 2010 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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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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  • People like mobile ads, says JiWire

    People like mobile ads, says JiWire

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    JiWire has been watching mobile and in-app advertising, and says that "Advertisements in mobile applications are especially effective." Their new report, released today, "examines device use, consumer adoption of Wi-Fi and consumer preferences for mobile content and advertising delivery." Interesting take-aways from the report include the fact that iPhone has surpassed iPod Touch in number of ads delivered, and that the iPad has had a non-trivial effect on WiFi usage, indicating that people really do want to access content on-the-go but might not want to do so with a phone or a laptop.

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  • Mobilicity gets the green light from CRTC, looks to launch in Toronto soon

    Mobilicity gets the green light from CRTC, looks to launch in Toronto soon

    Posted on May 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Right on cue, the artist formerly known as DAVE Wireless has been given approval to begin operations in Canada. Just as we heard earlier in the year, Mobilicity is looking to add some much-needed competition in the mobile operator space up north, and as predicted, the CRTC has given the initial stamp of approval needed for it to move forward with business operations. The company has to make a few minor changes up the ladder in order to appease the Canadian overlords that regulate this stuff, but the outfit's top brass have stated that they have "no issues" whatsoever in complying. If all goes well, the carrier plans to start up service in Toronto before the summer swings in, with Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa to get covered later in the year. Here's hoping those blasted three-year contracts vanish for good, eh?

    [Thanks, Adam]

    Mobilicity gets the green light from CRTC, looks to launch in Toronto soon originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 May 2010 03:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • iCitizen 2010: Dinosaurs in your phone?

    iCitizen 2010: Dinosaurs in your phone?

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    While I was recently attending the iCitizen 2010 Symposium, Noora Guldemond, Head of Marketing at Metaio—a company focused on developing Augmented Reality experiences—showed me a few recent AR examples her company developed. This Jurasic Park example curiously doesn’t have the usual black and white “target” that I normally recall seeing in many AR demos. In [...]

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  • iCitizen 2010: Hallelujah! Gaming Is Good For You (but you already knew that, it’s just that your parents didn’t)

    iCitizen 2010: Hallelujah! Gaming Is Good For You (but you already knew that, it’s just that your parents didn’t)

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    OK, so shortly after I got the invite to attend iCitizen, I received a book in the mail written by Bob Johansen (one of the iCitizen keynote speakers) with a note that said “please read this before the conference.” I really wanted to read it but I confess the title made me think it was [...]

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