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Blog: White African | Bscopes Feeds — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:53:43 +0000

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By: nchenga (nchenga nchenga)

nchenga (nchenga nchenga) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:41:08 +0000

see http://tinyurl.com/cj4jg4

By: Teddy

Teddy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:13:50 +0000

I can add more illiterate people have access to mobile phone than any other form of gadget.

By: navteq (NAVTEQ)

navteq (NAVTEQ) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:35:10 +0000

“SXSW: Mobile Web in Emerging Markets” http://bit.ly/18VjlM

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This Just In: News Popularity Doubles with Mobile Users | Blippitt — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:00:34 +0000

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By: Nate Berkopec

Nate Berkopec — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:38:51 +0000

Perhaps a semantic solution is in order!

“The World Wide Web (commonly abbreviated as “the Web”) is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.” – Wikipedia

“The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels.”
-Wikipedia

So, maybe, if we don’t need a browser, then what we mean is the “mobile internet,” not the “mobile web”.

By: Miquel

Miquel — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:50:44 +0000

Yes, your question is one that needed asking and I realize that marketing departments worldwide are going to glom on to one word to define a number of things as 'Web Free' gets more traction. I believe that there is a simple definition for "mobile web" if you break that in to three different things: Browser Mobile Web, Application Mobile Web, Text Mobile Web. There is a great deal of difference (as I'm dealing with right now) in creating a website that will display well on say an iPhone or Nokia N Series vs. developing an application for an iPhone of Nokia's Ovi vs. developing a site to work with SMS or MMS. Is a site truly mobile if it only meets one of these? How about two? I just fear that the last one is going to be forgotten by developed nations, when in reality it's that one which will truly reach that 80% of the world with mobile phones. Actually, now that I think about it, this might be a worthy article to dig in to more on Subsaharska when I get the chance as being a coder with a language background, I get ridiculously fired up about what things are called :) -miquel