Latest Tweet

Categories

Firefox for iPhone? No, but almost...

The only thing better than having a browser in your pocket, is having the all of the bookmarks, browser history and the open tabs from your desktop or notebook browser in your pocket as well.

Now you can! Mozilla Labs has worked up a nifty iPhone App that uses their Weave Sync technology to put [...]

Thoughts on the iPad in K-12 Classrooms

Apple has finally taken the wraps off the iPad, a device that many in the edtech community have been eagerly awaiting. Is it, as some have opined, the perfect machine around which to build a K-12 1:1 computing program? I’m sure we will see some school adoptions, but there are problems.

Not [...]

Deep-Seated Fears for the Future of Fennec (Firefox Mobile)

I recently saw a post in a discussion group asking about an emulator for Fennec, the mobile version of the stunniningly wonderful Firefox browser. The answer that came back from someone at Mozilla Labs was deeply disturbing:

“My first thought is that I think the ‘mobile web’ should be the same web, so an [...]

The Current Best Hope for Cross-Platform Mobile Development

In his recent blog post Symbian on Symbian, David Wood was discussing some of the advantages of Symbian WRT Widgets. On mobile devices, widgets are essentially websites that have been bundled and loaded onto the phone.

Symbian WRT on iPhone

They provide a rapid development environment using largely standardized web [...]

Symbian to Streamline App Sales Flow

In my previous post, “Asking the Wrong Question”, I dinged the Symbian Foundation for not presenting a clear picture of how to take a Symbian app to market. While that’s still a fragmented process, it appears that the foundation recognizes the problem and is working toward a solution. In an interview with CNET [...]

Asking the Wrong Question

A question floated across my screen a few minutes ago through both Twitter and the Mobile Monday group. @sdevo says:

Wondering who the top 10 mobile app companies are ? My client (an MNO) wants to know who to follow, and in whom to invest in or partner with.

I think Steve’s client is [...]

Mobile Apps on the Battlefield

iPod Touch on the battlefield

The US Army isn’t the first customer you think of when planning mobile device apps, but it turns out that they are enthusiastically adopting the iPhone and iPod Touch. According to a Newsweek article the popular mobile platform is performing a multitude of battlefield tasks ranging from language [...]