The Mobile Web is on track to expand to twice the size of the Desktop Web according to 'The Mobile Internet Report', released by Morgan Stanley. There are 7 other key themes explored in this report but the Mobile Web growth is worth exploring in more detail as it represents quite an opportunity for mobile internet application developers. 

According to the report, "The mobile Internet is ramping

Jim Henson's Muppets introduced the world to educational television almost two generations ago on November 10,1969.  Up until then television as an education tool in the US was considered unproven.  Sesame Street came up with a winning approach, combining both education and entertainment.  As author Malcolm Gladwell has stated, "Sesame Street was built around a single, breakthrough insight: that

The Financial Times is bolstering rumors that Apple has been working on, and in fact, readying a release of a new mobile device in time for the Christmas shopping season.  Rumors have it that the new device will have a form factor somewhere between an iPhone and a MacBook with a screen size of about 10 inches and will retail for around $800. 

Although there have been rumors about a Mac Tablet

Call me Captain Obvious because this first one is:

Remember the mobile device is not a desktop

Just because its possible to port a desktop application to a mobile device doesn't mean the resulting application will be a successful mobile application, on the contrary it will probably be a bad mobile application.  Microsoft has learned this lesson from some of the earliest version of Windows Mobile

Last year about this time Intel introduced the Atom processor, a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and  affordable Internet-centric computers or netbooks.  The introdution was a deliberate move by Intel to tap into what it believes will be a substantial market for a new category of low-cost, Internet-centric mobile computing devices,

First a bit of stunning news, or maybe just news depending on your viewpoint, the number of iPhone apps has surpassed the number of MS Mobiles Apps.  According to 148Apps which keeps a running count of AppStore applications sliced and diced by month of submission, price and category, the the total count today stands at 28,408, far beyond the closest competition offered by Microsoft Windows Mobile

If you haven't noticed there is a bit of a fight going on between Microsoft and Adobe about who has the best product, Silverlight or Flash. Addressing attendees at a tech-and-telecom conference  Adobe EVP and CFO Mark Garrett commented on Silverlight's impact on Adobe's flash business.  Silverlight launched more than 2 years ago "has really fizzled out in the last 6-9 months, I'd say...We're

Microsoft has entered into the world of Object Hyperlinking, sometimes referred to as Physical World Hyperlinking, with its announcement of the Beta of  Microsoft Tag, at CES.  

The purpose of Object Hyperlinking is to link objects in the physical world to the information on the internet much like digital hyperlinks on web pages are linked to information on the internet. “Object Hyperlinks