when and where do people use, or not, their mobile.
November 24, 2015
As I see the many figues on mobile web usage, and how a large percentage of teh developing world rely on mobile for their primary access, I wonder if the disctinction between the Web and the Mobile Web is still good thinking. By :the web” I mean web sites designed for and used on PCs, […]
April 1, 2015
well lets hope so. I saw the devices at Mobile World Congress, and I was impressed, ot was by far the best of the “other” mobile operating systems. Jolla’s Sailfish was ok, but amaterish, Firefox was just too slow, I mean unusably, horribly slow (and too round), but Ubuntu was familiar, quick, easy to work […]
December 9, 2014
here is an important graph from this years “The Global State of Enterprise Mobility 2014/15” from EME that is based on a collection of data from many companies around the world (including an IBM Exec, for full disclosure) So where is mobile working, how do you realise the benefits. When you’re considering investing in mobile, and […]
December 9, 2014
Listening to the architect of many IBM mobile applications, explain his reference architecture, he made some very interesting points, Now it must be said that they were made because the IBM products help fix them, and so I thought I should point that out. Of course many of the solutions can be non-IBM too! Firstly […]
July 3, 2014
A mobile marketing friend of mine*, David, sent me this link … The Crown Estate is giving Regent Street a huge technology makeover, providing iBeacons in all stores in this area. Accompanied by an official Regent Street app, shoppers will be able to receive personalised offers and discounts, based on purchase and browsing history. “We want […]
March 21, 2014
[eds note: This post is too long, so here it is in 15 words: Digital Natives and Immigrants are very different in how they use mobiles so design accordingly.] In the previous entry on this subject we looked at how mobiles are changing the way we think. In summary: We are ever more reliant on external memory, provided by […]
March 20, 2014
In short: Ensure your apps react quickly (sub 1 second), and tell the user when delays are expected, because with a flaky mobile connection these delays can happen more often than you’d like. For many years at the birth of the internet there was a lot of effort in making web pages load fast over […]
February 20, 2014
I try not to just comment on rolling news about mobile, as there are so many more people who do this, and do it full time. However sometimes an important event occurs that makes me sit up and think. Here is one. Using your mobile phone to pay for things at a point of sale […]
February 8, 2014
In my last post I considered those apps that replace the main home screen of your phone with something that will change the apps etc on display based on the home screens understanding of your behaviour. this should be brilliant, what you want and need are right there, just as you require them. As I […]
November 25, 2015
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