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June 15, 2011
Apps (Games, QR Codes & Social Media are in their own categories)
Is it time to start factoring data into cost of app ownership? (If data costs can make that much of a difference to rich Americans how much more they matter to the impoverished unreached of the developing world!!!)
How Can I Make My Blog or Site into a Mobile App (Without Programming Knowledge)?
Publishers Forsaking Apps in Favor of HTML5 for Mobile Content
Designing Mobile Applications for Multiple Form Factors
Microsoft Releases Android to Windows Phone Porting Tool
Games
appMobi supercharges HTML5 game development
General/Other
Data Sprawl: How The Web's Rapid Expansion Will Transform The Global South (linked paper on Digital Publishing in the Developing World is EXCELLENT, highly recommended)
How-To: Optimize Marketing Copy for Mobile
Why Buy a Smartphone? (Most helpful when read with the additional context of Antoine Wright’s (of Mobile Ministry Magazine) comments below the main article sharing reasons to buy a “feature phone” rather than a smartphone)
The 6 “Ps” of a Successful Mobile Technology Strategy (Part 3- Policies, Part 4- Provisioning)
How China’s Cellphone Pirates are Toppling Governments in India and the Middle East (all kinds of good stuff on mobile use in the developing world in general)
mobiThinking guide to mobile awards: the winners from the major awards with videos and case studies
With 500M subscribers, HSPA growth quickly soars (on growth of 3G '3rd Generation' high speed connectivity enabled mobile phones and networks)
Mobile for Good (Health, Education, Activism, Etc.)
Mobile Technologies for Social Transformation: A concept paper
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation fund mobile services to aid farmers in developing countries
More Africans Learn by Mobile Phone
mLearning Road Map
How Mobile Phones are Saving Lives in the Developing World
mHealth: New Horizons for Health Through Mobile Technologies (World Health Organization report, 112 pgs)
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
A Human Rights Approach to the Mobile Internet
Mobile Ministry
CyberMissions Video Presentations on Mobile Ministry (2 x 5 min)
Analyzing Mobile After It Is Applied
Should I Have An App?
Digital Bibles Break Out of the West
Jesus on an iPad
Mobile Web
Mobile Web Speed Bumps (presentation slides and audio recording)
13 essential programming tools for the mobile Web
Tips, Tricks and Best Practices for Responsive Design
An Event Apart: The Responsive Designer’s Workflow
Where are the Mobile First Responsive Web Designs?
Is HTML5 the Future of Smartphone Apps? A Conversation About Web Technologies (Video, 47 min)
CSS3 and HTML5 Toolbox Starter
Operating Systems/Handset Makers
Why Samsung is About to Become the Smartphone King (remember, though, Nokia is still far and away the overall mobile phone king as smartphones are only about 20% of the total phones produced and sold)
IDC thinks WP7 will soar to No. 2 by 2015. Really?
Nokia Still Dominant in Africa, Accounts for 81 Percent of Mobile Ad Impressions
QR Codes & Near Field Communications
Mobile Barcode Best Practices
Security/Privacy
A Guide to Mobile Security Risk Assessment
The Bug in Your Pocket: Remote Listening Applications for Mobile Phones
Beware of Malicious QR Codes
SMS/Texting
Did Apple Create an SMS Killer? The Short Answer is No
The Consequence of Apple Taking On the Humble Text Message
SMS is doomed: Google working on Android iMessage, BBM competitor
Nokia Takes on BBM and Apple’s iMessage with Its Own Free IM Platform
Social Media
How Social Media Can Jumpstart Your Mobile Strategy
The Case for Facebook Zero and Similar Applications
Stats/Studies
Mobile Media Use up 600% as Unlimited Data Plans Tune Out
HTML5 Encoding Secrets
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