Archive for the ‘Mobile Technology’ Category

Google wants to mobilize your Web site – for free

Kevin Fitchard, GigaOM, 4/5/2012 Google wants to bring more small websites to mobile phones, and to help nudge those sites along it’s willing to foot the bill for a year. Google, with the help of mobile Web optimization startup Duda Mobile, is offering for 12 months free hosting and customization of Web sites for mobile browsers [...]

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Posted on April 5, 2012 at 4:42 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Wix Brings No-Coding-Skills-Needed Design to HTML5 Sites

Chris Knigh, CMSWire, 3/26/2012 Site design for those lacking in actual design skills is a problem that many seem to want to solve. Wix is a dab hand at creating Flash sites from a drag and drop system, now it offers the same for those needing a result in modern, sexy, smartphone-friendly HTML 5. Its [...]

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Posted on March 26, 2012 at 7:39 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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With Linux merge, expect Android flowers to bloom

Stephen Shankland, Cnet News, 3/22/2012 Developers outside Google who want to build on the mobile OS’s foundation should be able to stretch out and blossom. That should pay dividends for building a better Android. Ordinary folks may not notice much right away from the fact that Google’s Android programmers are bringing their work back into [...]

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Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:34 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Interest in HTML5 grows among mobile app developers

Mikael Ricknäs, ComputerWorld, 3/20/2012 Apple’s iOS continues to dominate, while Android and RIM OS flounders Mobile developers will increasingly use HTML5 in their applications during 2012, but fragmentation will make their life more difficult, according to a joint survey from IDC and cross-platform development vendor Appcelerator. Seventy-nine percent of mobile developers report they will integrate [...]

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Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:46 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Linux 3.3 Boosts Linux Mobility

Datamation, 3/210/21012 Android and Linux are officially back together. Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.3 kernel on Sunday, formally ending a two year dispute between mainline Linux kernel developers and Google Android developers. The Linux 2.6.38 kernel that was released in February of 2010 removed Android code after Linux kernel developers alleged that it wasn’t [...]

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Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:42 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Cell-to-Wi-Fi roaming is on the way, but may come with a price

Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, 3/20/2012 Getting your phone onto Wi-Fi networks may get a lot easier starting in about a year, but it won’t necessarily get cheaper. The main trade groups for mobile operators and Wi-Fi hotspot providers are working out the details of how to hand off devices automatically between the two types [...]

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Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:37 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Google+ mobile site takes cues from Android, iPhone apps

Don Reisinger, CNET News, 3/13/2012 Although Google has yet to deliver the native iPad app for which Google+ users have been hoping, the company offered the next best thing in an update yesterday. Google+ users that head over to the service’s mobile Web site from their browser will find that it comes with a new [...]

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Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:36 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Apple patent directly touches on iPhone with NFC payments

Electronista, 3/6/2012 A newly granted USPTO patent has lent credence to notions that Apple is looking to implement NFC in iOS. The technique describes a way to define how a payment is made when an iPhone with an NFC chip is brought up to a terminal to pay. It would set rules for the deal, [...]

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Posted on March 6, 2012 at 5:31 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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AppMobi Accelerates Android HTML5 Performance With new directCanvas SDK

Dan Rowinsk, ReadWriteWeb, 3/6/2012 A lot has been made over the last couple of days of how Android renders HTML5 a lot slower than iOS. This comes as a revelation to absolutely no one. HTML5 development studio appMobi thinks it has a fix. At the Game Developers Conference today appMobi announced the availability of its [...]

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Posted on March 6, 2012 at 4:38 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Apple iOS HTML5 performance far exceeds Android

Don Reisinger, CNET news, 3/6/2012 Both iOS and Android support HTML5 in the browser, but according to a new study, Apple’s platform is doing a much better job of handling it. Spaceport, a company that provides tools for developers to create multiplatform mobile games, revealed in a study published yesterday that Apple’s iPad is about [...]

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Posted on March 6, 2012 at 4:34 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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