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  Designing for the Mobile Web [Design Principles] 

  http://www.sitepoint.com/article/designing-for-mobile-web

  The number of users browsing the Web from a mobile device continues to rise, yet most mobile web sites are still sub-par. The thing is, creating a great web experience for users of mobile devices is much ... easier than you might think. In this article I'll introduce seven fundamental steps that, if followed, will help you avoid the pitfalls that have caused many other mobile sites to fail. By the end of this article you'll know exactly where to focus your efforts in order to build a successful mobile site. 1. Don't Mix Up Your Markup A few different types of markup are available for building a mobile web site. You'll need to choose one that suits the needs of your customers and stick with it. WML In the early days of mobile web devices, the only way to surf the mobile web was to browse WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) sites. A WAP site uses WML (Wireless Markup Language) as its primary markup language. WML is an XML markup language based on the card-and-deck metaphor. Luckily for us, W   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 13 March 2008, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  design, mobile, device, principles, web

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  Backpack straps harvest energy to power electronics 

  http://www.physorg.com/news108897656.html

  All that rubbing of your backpack straps on your shoulders may be put to good use, now that researchers have designed a novel type of energy harvesting backpack. The pack has straps made of a piezoelectric ... material that can convert the mechanical strain on the straps into electrical energy that may power or recharge portable electronics. The piezoelectric backpack straps are the latest innovation in the area of “energy harvesting,” where otherwise-wasted, ambient energy is converted into electrical energy to prolong the life of electronics. Mechanical engineers Jonathan Granstrom and Joel Feenstra from Michigan Technological University, Henry Sodano from Arizona State University, and Kevin Farinholt from NanoSonic, Inc., have published their results in a recent issue of Smart Materials and Structures . The group’s intentions in designing the energy harvesting backpack were to make a device that was transparent to the user by not interfering with the user’s flexibility or endurance, as   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 14 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  paidContent:UK - Covering UK's Digital Media Economy 

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  Seven days after the UK iPhone launch, a survey finds British consumers really don’t want all-singing, all-dancing converged multimedia phones. Just 41 percent of 500 Brits surveyed - in Universal McCann’s ... survey of 10,000 in 21 countries ( via Guardian ) - said they’d like to own a converged handset. The problem? Device fatigue - 82 percent of us already has a mobile, 48 percent a mobile music player so the new wave needs to work hard to ween us off our existing purchases. Still, only 43 percent of respondents wanted wireless internet and, though 48 percent quite fancy having video on their mobile, a full 28 percent wants music features but none of the moving pictures. Curiously, even in the normally hyper mobile-savvy Japan and Taiwain, interest in owning a converged device only bobbled around 27 percent. Most excited of all were Mexicans (79 percent), Brazil and Malaysia (72 percent) and India (70 percent), suggesting those markets where penetration of rudimentary phones is still lo   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 16 November 2007, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  media, apple, consumer electronics, iphone, mobile , multimedia phone, phone, digital, content   [More...] [Less...]

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  NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Architecture Now Available Top-To-Bottom 

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  First added: 14 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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