Location, Location, Location
Location based services (LBS) has been a buzz word and a hype since birth of mobile services. I'm not saying that it is a failure! more...
Kind of a "sunshine transcoder story"
I guess many of you have been following discussions on various attempts by network operators to transcode desktop web sites and squeeze them on to a mobile device, without respecting the intentions of content owners. The case I'll be talking about is the TeliaSonera case, and their "SurfOpen" service. First time around, the launch caused an uprising among the content owners forcing TeliaSonera to go offline with SurfOpen. Now SurfOpen is launched again with a more reasonable approach. more...
dotMobi launches Instant Mobilizer - Fast-track ticket to the mobile Web for small business
Viva la mobile Web. mobiForge’s parent dotMobi has just launched Instant Mobilizer at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This is a handy tool designed to get small businesses up-and-running on the mobile Internet ASAP, by automatically converting their PC Web site to a mobile-friendly format instantly with no development effort, hosting or site maintenance. more...
AT&T Gateway address updates
Well our friends at AT&T are up to changes in the network again. Happily they were kind enough to send out a message with a heads up about new network addresses that are coming from devices on their network. more...
Official mobile metrics for the Norwegian market
Earlier this year TNS-Gallup launched a product for the Norwegian media market providing a common currency for traffic measurements. Today the first numbers were published. The product measures unique users, sessions and page views at this stage, but of course much more information is available. more...
The Growing Mobile Web
Since the beginning of the find.mobi project, I've been charged with building its index, and so I've been crawling a lot of web sites. This has given me a good vantage point from which to view the growth of the mobile web, and to notice general trends. The overall impression I have today is of a continuous growth in content and new sites, but no tidal wave just yet. more...
Sharing the Love: Introducing the ilovemobileweb Awards
A while back, you may remember us talking about the ilovemobileweb initiative. As the next step of proving how much we love mobile web, we're giving awards to the best of the best .mobi sites as part of the Informa Telecoms & Media / dotMobi Advisory Group's Mobile Web Europe 2008 event. more...
Announcing ready.mobi v2.0
For those who haven't seen it yet, we've gone live with ready.mobi v2.0 (We were going to call v1.1, but the new features are so cool we figured it was worth bumping up to 2.0). Version 2.0 rocks. New features include more...
Ready.mobi v1.1
We've been very busy working on this one, and we can finally unveil Ready.mobi v1.1. Our testing tool has had a major upgrade in version 1.1: no more page-by-page testing! You can now test a whole site with a click of a button. Want to get your hands on this? Then read on... more...
Celebrity news and bikini contests on dev.mobi
What has happened? Have we sold out? Are we making a cheap buck out of our developer forum?Thankfully not. This is all part of an altruistic experiment in mobile advertising. Those of you who visited the mobile version of mobiForge may have noticed that mobile ads started popping up on the site today. more...
