Blog Archives for October 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Putting Employee Cellphones to Work A great article by Marguerite Reardon at CNET brought up a trend we’re seeing with increasing frequency in companies today. Businesses are trying to figure out ways to cut their IT budgets and workers are demanding that they be able to use the mobile devices they choose. The result is [...]
Continue readingWednesday, October 27, 2010
Normally when I look for best of breed mobile websites, I choose to review mainstream media outlets as they tend to have the biggest challenge with formatting content for the mobile web. This week I’m departing slightly as I caught the release of the Acrtic.RU mobile website by the team at Moire Marketing. Great Layout [...]
Continue readingTuesday, October 26, 2010
RSS is a technology which was invented by Dave Winer back in 2001. After almost a decade of existence in it’s current form, it has become the standard for transporting content around the web. For an explanation of how RSS works as a concept you can see a post I wrote last year: how to [...]
Continue readingFriday, October 22, 2010
Windows Phone 7 Making a Good Case Alex Wilhelm from TheNextWeb.com points us to some interesting Google search trends surrounding the Windows Phone 7 launch day. There is clearly a lot of interest in this device, especially from south-east Asia and Australia. Reviews of the device have also started to flood in steadily and for [...]
Continue readingWednesday, October 20, 2010
The BBC iPhone application is one of my favorite ways to quickly catch up on what is happening in world news. I took to this application quickly as the layout is very intuitive and easy to grasp. The app uses thumbnails of images from the various articles to create a gallery effect on the home [...]
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