Apple (Steve Jobs specifically) has long condemned Flash as being battery-killing, slow, and insecure. He disliked the system so much in fact, that Apple never supported it on their mobile devices which gave rise to a popular new programming language: HTML5. Well,...
Your customers are using tablets, are you?
Today, Time Inc. announced that it would be releasing all of it's magazine's on full purpose-built applications for tablets. This is a massive undertaking, as releasing even one publication on a broad spectrum of tablets requires cooperation and use of an entire staff...
Near Field Communication and the future of mobile data payment
You may not have heard of the term Near Field Communication (or NFC), but odds are that someone you know owns a phone that has the capability to use it. NFC is a sort of mini-bluetooth that is integrates into millions of devices and cell phones already that allows...
Is your site ready for a mobile population?
You check your email on the fly. You check Facebook on your phone. You might even check in at your favorite restaurant on Foursquare on your iPhone. However, viewing websites on the small-screen has historically been a painful process. Despite this, a recent study...
QR-Codes
They come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR is short for Quick Response (they can be read quickly by a cell phone). They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your cell phone. You may soon see QR Codes in a...
Should you build an iPhone site?
With Apple’s iPhone rapid acceleration as the phone of choice for new consumers and business professionals, its clear there’s a market for these users. In a report dated April 2009 by Admob, iPhones are now generating 43% of all mobile web page requests, compared to...