by Piotr Kowalczyk Photo: Arvind Grover Reading on mobile phones is a subject of my continued fascination. How to help people read e-books on their phones? What to do to overcome popular prejudices? Certainly, mobile phones won’t be a primary e-reader for anyone who wants to read more than occasionally, but they can be very [...]
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Check out my new mobile site
February 6th, 2011 · 8 Comments · blog maintenance
Earlier today I helped someone set up a mobile version of their website and that finally spurred me to launch a mobile site for this blog. (WordPress makes this really easy, in case you were wondering.) Second Update: Someone showed me a better way to do it, so I’ve killed the mobile domain. Your mobile [...]
Freescale just named me as a Smart Mobile Device Pundit
January 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · blog maintenance
Earlier today Freescale announced their 2011 list of Smart Mobile Device Pundits. This is a list of 20 gadget geeks, journalists, bloggers, and commentators who – well, basically this was a popularity contest. The Pundits who made the list got the most votes. In order to thank and honor true industry pundits in the smart [...]
The mobile device market is going to fragment
January 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment · opinion
I just read an interesting article over on Venture Beat. I’m bringing it to your attention not becuase I think it will happen but because it already is happening. For the longest time, mobile devices came in clear, separate categories: laptops, phones, handheld game players, and music players. But with the arrival of smartphones, tablets, [...]
Who is your Smart Mobile Device Pundit?
December 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I’m hoping it’s me. Freescale are asking for nominations for their list of Smart Mobile Device Pundits. I’m going to be a little pushy here and suggest that I should be on that list. Who want to nominate me? Earlier in 2010, many of you helped Freescale compile a list of highly visible industry pundits [...]
Dictionary.com Marks 20 Million Downloads With Next-Gen Mobile Dictionary
December 14th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Today Dictionary.com (www.dictionary.com), the leading online and mobile dictionary, announced that its mobile products have exceeded *20 million downloads, making it the world’s most downloaded dictionary across iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry platforms.
Tags:20·dictionary·dictionarycom·downloads·marks·million·mobile·nextgen
Brian O’Leary: mobile reading comes of age [presentation]
November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
by Piotr Kowalczyk of Password Incorrect Please read carefully this fantastic presentation on mobile reading prepared by Brian O’Leary. It all began with first popular e-reading devices in 2006/07. E-books started to move from a desktop phase to a mobile phase. Mobile means convenience. Convenience of a printed book – and much beyond. It’s a [...]
Adobe Reader Mobile 9.2 update now available (to everyone who aren’t B&N)
November 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news
I’m surprised that I’m the only one who noticed this. Adobe just announced today that the latest update of the RM SDK is now available to all developers. This means that finally e-reader manufacturers ebookstores besides B&N can use sell the password protected Epub: Today, Adobe has released an update to our Digital Publishing Solution [...]
Firefox Mobile for Android now officially in alpha
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
It’s actually been available for a couple months now, but today Mozilla made it official. You can now download Fennec for your Android v2.x phone or Nokia N900. This is the alpha release of Fennec v2.01, so don’t be surprised if it crashes. You can find more information and download it here.
Tags:alpha·Android·firefox·mobile·officially
Project Gutenberg launch mobile site
July 24th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Help create the “http://m.gutenberg.org” web pages!!! We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, [...]
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