You can come up with numbers to show anything you want, really… 62% of people know that. But one metric has just come out that is very interesting. According to the folks over at AdMob (a very large, one of the largest mobile web ad networks), they have reported that Apple’s iPhone are clearly dominating…
Opera Mobile Going Turbo at Mobile World Congress
With only a few days left before Mobile World Congress gets underway in Barcelona, the announcements are bound to start pouring in, including this one from Opera Mobile. Opera Turbo is geared primarily to OEM and service providers, boasting 80% traffic compression by using their usual trick of processing sites on their servers then shunting…
AdMob January 2009 Metrics Report says mobile users love WiFi
AdMob is out with their monthly metrics report. From there we learn that people in the U.S. and Western Europe more and more prefer accessing Internet on their mobile phone over WiFi. The American states that generated the most WiFi traffic are California with 18%, New York with 14%, and Texas with 8%. Other highlights…
Sun Microsystems Releases JavaFX Mobile
Sun has just announced a mobile version of its JavaFX platform. The new ‘JavaFX Mobile’ is built on JavaME, and will let developers easily create mobile applications. Plus, this new mobile release will allow developers to port existing apps to mobile platforms. Cool. Also noteworthy is JavaFX Mobile will allow developers to tie into native…
Google Book Search Mobile Client Available for iPhone and Android
The folks at Google have announced mobile access for the Google Book Search service for Android-powered devices… Including the G1 (of course!). The launch is also setup for the iPhone, and offers around 1.5 million books in the US, and around half a million books outside of the US. All of these titles are digitized…
Watchmen movie gets its mobile website
In order to promote its upcoming blockbuster, Warner Bros launched the Watchmen mobile website, teasing us a month before the movie hits theaters. The site is optimized to perfectly render on most modern mobile phones — featuring latest news, mobile content downloads, videos included. In addition, you can read all about the movie and get…
Google Tasks Available on Mobile
Yeah, we’re all used to Google’s stuff being perpetually in beta, but Google Tasks, which has been in Google Labs since December, will also be experimented on mobile – just hit up gmail.com/tasks in your browser to check it out. Android and iPhone users will have some extra options like adding, editing, and deleting whole…
Kiddie-Friendly iPhone Browser Protects From Porn
Since Apple’s allowing third-party browsers into the App Store now, InternetSafety.com has jumped in and released Safe Eyes Mobile. Looking at the video demo, this new browser functions just as well and smoothly as Safari, only blocks content from a long list of questionable sites. Parents can also remotely lock down Safari on their kids’…
Fennec on Windows Mobile Videoed
Fennec, Mozilla’s upcoming mobile browser, is peeking its head out of the alpha hidey-hole, but it best go back under for awhile. Fennec promises a lot of cool features like swipe-based menu summoning, easy access to site certificates, tabbed browsing, predictive URLs, and tagged bookmarks, but as you can see, there is still a lot…
iWebTrack Lets you Obssess Over Site Traffic While on the Move
If you’re the type who pops an aneurysm when the bounce rate on their site goes up 0.2% since yesterday, iWebTrack today released an app for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry that lets you keep an eye on metrics like site visitors, search engine traffic, conversions, and ad campaigns. On top of showing numbers on your…