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May 4, 2011



Apps (Games, QR Codes & Social Media are in their own categories)


How to Create Lovable Mobile Apps

 

Are Your Users S.T.U.P.I.D?

 

Fake it 'til you make it: Creating Mobile Web Apps That Feel Like Native Apps

 

Breaking Development: Web Apps That Feel Native

 

How HTML5 Will Kill the Native App

 

Is the Battle Between HTML5 and Native Apps a Non-Issue?

 

Developing for Multiple Platforms: A Look at Our Experience with Titanium

 

Mono for Android Ships, Now .NET Developers Can Build Android Apps

 

LiveCode Extends Its Development Platform to Android

 

Microsoft Research TouchStudio Makes Windows Phone a Game Changing Platform: Prepare to be Amazed

 

Mobile App Development: 10 Tips for Small Business Owners

 

 

Design & Innovation


The Anti-Blockbuster Way: Disrupt Your Business Rituals Before Someone Else Does


Future Innovation: Threat or Opportunity

 

Mobile-Patterns: New Resource for Mobile App Makers from Foursquare's Lead Designer

 

More Resources for Mobile Design Inspiration

 

 

Games/Gaming


Casual Connect Hamburg 2011 (massive load of presentations on gaming, mobile, and mobile gaming)

 

 

General/Other


The 4 S’s of Mobile Design

 

Mobile Design & Development (book published by O’Reilly Media, now available to read for free online)

 

Jihadists use mobiles as propaganda tools (BBC Report)

 

Entering a new dimension – Jihad via Bluetooth (In-depth research, Part 1, Part 2)

 

It’s all about connections: Kirusa and txtAfrica push mobile services to Africa

 

The 6 Ps of a Successful Mobile Technology Strategy (Part 1, Part 2)

 

Going Mobile, Embrace Its Unique Characteristics

 

How mobile phones are turning into phantom limbs

 

Pixel Proliferation: A Toolset For Managing Screen Resolutions

 

Touch Gesture Reference Guide

 

Evaluating Text-to-Speech for eLearning Narration

 

Digital Republic’s Karim Khalifa Maps Out Mobile Marketing Opportunities In Middle East

 

Completely mobile newspaper launches in Africa


Teaching mobile journalism: It’s not just the tools, it’s the mindset

 

How to Get the Most Out of Your iPhone as a Reporting Tool

 

Giving Radio Listeners a Voice

 

  

Mobile for Good (Health, Education, Activism, Etc.)


Three Pioneering Projects Win Coveted Vodafone and mHealth Alliance Wireless Innovation Awards


Praekelt- Mobile in Africa (Video, 2 min)

 

Can your smartphone save your life?

 

The insider’s guide to mobile health (m-health)

 

Cell-Phone Medicine Brings CareTo Patients In Developing Nations


Planning an mLearning Project

 

EduCause March/April 2011- Getting a Handle on Mobile (several articles)

 

25 mLearning Tools in 45 Minutes (recorded webinar)

 

Float Mobile Learning Primer (Free app for iPhone/iPad or Android)

 

Mobile Learning: The Next Evolution (Excellent piece on how to ensure mLearning programs are successful)

 

Designing for Mobile Learning

 

Designing mLearning with Clark Quinn (Article/Audio Interview)

 

Mobile Learning: A Quick SWOT Analysis

 

The Pitfalls and Promises of Mobile Learning

 

Making Mobile Learning Work: Case Studies of Practice

 

SMS Education in Pakistan

 

Mobile Learning for the NHS

 

New mLearning Authoring Tools (Wave #1 and Wave #2)

 

Mobile Learning Resources

 

SwiftRiver: Where Software Meets Social Change


 

Mobile Ministry


Technology Moves Divine Intervention Into the Digital Domain (Video, CBS News)

 

Imagine if you came home and all your books were gone

 

Mobile Apps and a Different View

 

Dimensions of Mobile

 

mLearning Project Video

 

 

Mobile Web


Why the Mobile Web is the Foundation of the Best Mobile Strategies

 

How the Mobile Web Will Win

 

Beyond the Mobile Web

 

Designing for Mobility          

 

“Mobifying” Your HTML5 Site

 

One Mobile Site to Serve Thousands of Phones

 

Hexidecimally Lingual: Websites Must Speak 16 Languages to Go Global

 

IBM Launches Maqetta HTML5 Tool as Open-Source Answer to Flash, Silverlight


320 and Up has you design for mobile first


Adobe Takes on Mobile World With Creative Suite 5.5

 

 

Operating Systems


Developing Mobile Learning: Which Device Are You Targeting?

 

Gartner Says Android to Command Nearly Half of Worldwide Smartphone Operating System Market by Year-End 2012

 

Do Not Anger the Alpha Android

 

160 Million iOS Devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) Sold So Far

 

IDC Predicts Windows Phone Will Beat RIM and Apple by 2015

 

Microsoft Will Beat Apple In Mobile By 2015, Says Gartner

 

Nokia’s Windows Phone smartphones detailed, four handsets expected early 2012


 
 

QR Codes


Progress with Barcodes


Advertizing with QR Codes (Video, 4 min)

 

 

Security/Privacy


Snooping: It's not a crime, it's a feature

 

Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves

 

Survey Shows We're Too Lazy About Mobile Phone Security

 
US Police Can Copy Your iPhone’s Contents In Under Two Minutes


Surveillance Self-Defense: Mobile Devices

 

Cellcrypt goes beyond voice to include encrypted messaging to the mix


Securely Store Information Across Multiple Smartphone Platforms

 

8 Security Questions to Ask Before Building Mobile Apps (Part 1, Part 2)

 

 

SMS/Texting


Startup Uses SMS for Research & Advertising in Developing Countries

 

Bizito- Premium SMS Texting for the Rest of Us (Video Intro, 5 min)



Social Media


Fring Group Video Calls Are Here!


Qik Opens Its Video Chat to (Almost) All Android Users

 

 

Stats/Studies


Some Milestones We Will See This Year in Mobile Statistics

 

Mobile technologies take hold to shape the future of Africa

 

400 Million Africans Buy Cellphones

 

China to have 900 million cellular phone users this year

 

India’s mobile subscriber base grows by over 20 million in February

 

Indian Mobile Subscribers Unwilling to Cruise into the World of 3G

 

Indonesia- The Next Big Thing in Digital Media (Video, 2 min- try to get beyond the somewhat annoying voice to hear what is being said :)

 

The Growth of Mobile Stats and Figures That Will Shock You (Video, 3 min)

 

Mobile Statistics, Stats & Facts 2011 (Infographic)

 

 

Video/Multimedia


How mobile video is helping Africa’s rural farmers

 

Delivering Video by Mobile Phone to Classrooms in Tanzania

 

Augmented Reality + Virtual Reality = Blended Realities

 

Can Google Reinvent Web Video?

 

Blurb Releases iPhone App for Creative Storytellers


Syncing Content with HTML5 Video

 

Vimeo Video Recorder, Editor, Uploader: Fast, Reasonably Easy & Free

 

First Knight-Mozilla Tech Challenge now open: Unlocking video



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