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Android-powered phones account for a third of the U.S. smartphone market right now , and Google says 400,000 more are being activated each day . Rubin began his career as a developer at Apple, and moved around the Valley a lot working with mobile operating systems. Most notably he was CEO of Danger, the company behind the T-Mobile Sidekick.
Andy Rubin: The Man Who Changed Mobile
Publications Mobile More Pervasive in Weekend Purchase Decisions 05/19/2011
Consider the rapid adoption of mobile devices: 96% of the U.S. population now has them, compared to just 69% in 2005, according to CTIA.
NEW YORK - An Arc Worldwide executive at the Mcommerce Summit: State of Mobile Commerce 2011 conference said the big difference between heavy and light mobile shoppers is in how they use mobile devices in the process of their lives. According to research conducted by Arc Worldwide , 10 percent of consumers are heavy mobile shoppers while 39.1 percent are light mobile shoppers. There is a lot of similarity in the demographics for these groups.
Despite high mobile penetration, usage varies widely: panelist - Mobile Marketer - Research
Moving Beyond Plastic, Visa Announces Digital Wallet Launch
Visa announced today it will launch a next-generation digital wallet service which aims to revolutionize electronic payments, including those made online, on a mobile phone, or offline at the point-of-sale.
I recently saw this great interview over at Advertising Age with brand editor Matt Bean of Men’s Health, who is in charge of the publisher’s three paid iPhone apps that have, as a group, so far been downloaded over 50,000 times. Ad Age reporter Abbey Klaaseen and Bean discuss what publishers should be thinking about when trying to launch apps.
Men’s Health Editor Discusses iPhone App Successes | Mobile Marketing Watch
Devices have outgrown one-size-fits-all design.
Distributed Experiences: Multi-Device Design | Punchcut
Making a Splash: NextDrop Monitors Water Flow in Urban India | MobileActive.org
Water is becoming one of the most contested resources in the world as populations increase and the availability of fresh water decreases.In India, mobile water tracking system updates local residents - Springwise
The reliability of water supply is a major issue for millions of households in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Although water is meant to be delivered to communities via a piped supply on a rotational schedule, the water often isn’t being piped when it should be — leaving families waiting indefinitely for supplies. Hoping to provide a solution, we recently came across NextDrop .
For those interested in some more insight into mobile … check out the below infographic(s).
The Rise of Mobile | NetWitsThinkTank.com
Our CEO, Jed Alpert, went on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to talk about texting, mobile engagement and his new book, The Mobile Marketing Revolution: How Your Brand Can Have a One-to-One Conversation with Everyone.
Blog | Mobile Commons
We’ve seen numerous innovations in the word of online publishing, from a magazine that detects and adapts to users’ reading interests, to digital books focusing on reader immersion through interaction. The latest spotting? The Toronto Standard is a newly relaunched web-based magazine that’s been designed from the ground up to span digital platforms, adapting automatically to the reader’s viewing device.
Cross-platform digital magazine adapts to the reader's device - Springwise
The Biodome The Breaking Development Conference just wrapped up at the massive Gaylord Texan Hotel/Conference Center in Dallas, TX.
The State and Future of the Mobile Web: A View from Breaking Development Conference | Brad Frost Web
This site is a proof of concept for many of the ideas described in Rethinking the Mobile Web . Our About this Site page describes how the site was developed, but you may also want to check out Pragmatic Responsive Design , which outlines our most recent approach and a case study of a new responsive web site we designed for Nokia.