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    • Mobile Dev Dilemma - to App or to WAP?

      3/18/2010 1:29:24 PM

       

      Competition is heating up between smartphone applications and mobile browsers, prompting brands to rethink where to channel development resources. Some say that applications, popular with the youth market, will displace search engines. Others that open APIs allow browsers to adopt the best features of applications.  ‘For smartphone users, mobile web is the killer app,’ says Nielsen’s David Gill at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. Given that most people either have or want a smartphone, mobile web, formerly known as WAP, is back in a big way.

      Few would deny that smartphone applications have been ...

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      Tags: Developers iPhone Branding Applications Apps Mobile Smartphone M-commerce

    • How fast is your phone? – A bluffer’s guide.

      6/16/2009 7:17:09 AM

      Spare a thought for those poor iPhoners that woke up recently to the unveiling of the 3GS. Imagine you’ve got the sleekest piece of hardware on the market and then there’s another, better, faster one, with 3 megapix video cam, a landscape fix of the really annoying keyboard, and “2x” the browsing power. Worse still, there’s that S, which stands for Speed, and makes you feel about as inadequate as not having ‘Turbo’ on the back of your black Porsche 911. Which is now a Mazda. And let’s not even talk about the $499 to upgrade, when any old Joe ...

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      Tags: Jargon iPhone WAP Applications Apps Mobile Smartphone Lifestyle

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