Monday, February 25th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
There's an interesting article by Jack Ewing in BusinessWeek that talks about how companies like Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens are embracing renewable energy in Asia and Africa in order to supply rural areas with mobile services. According to Ewing, growth in the mobile industry will be heavily contingent upon the ...
Tags: base, energy, interface, Mobile, renewable, stations
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Monday, February 18th, 2008 by John-Alistair George
On February 12 a panel of human behavior and technology experts gathered at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. One of the sessions was titled "Its the User Experience, Stupid".
David Benjamin, from EE Times, wrote an excellent piece on the conference.
He wrote that Anup Murarka sighted a ChangeWave ...
Tags: apple, Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, feature, interface, iphone, Mobile, phones, user interface
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Mobile | 3 Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 by John-Alistair George
The new Android SDK was released today. Build m5-rc14 brings a host of improvements to SDK. Updates were made to the user interface which received a lot of criticism due to the clunkiness and linear approach to menus and navigation.
They also added the option for developers to create Layout animations ...
Tags: android, anticipated, interface, released, sdk, update
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Qualcomm, ARM, NEC, and Texas Instruments are just a few of the companies showcasing prototypes running Google's Android operating system at this year's GSMA World Congress in Barcelona. Despite the fact that these prototypes were implemented on circuit boards rather than actual phones and the Android UI itself is still ...
Tags: action, google, googlephone, interface, Mobile
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Yahoo launched its oneConnect social mobile application in Barcelona this week. The application is essentially an address book on steroids - it aggregates social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn in addition to messaging services including Yahoo Messenger, GoogleTalk, AIM, MSN, and SMS. Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and ...
Tags: enter, interface, Mobile, phonebook, social, Social Media
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 by Mia Northrop
Once the home of privacy policy, terms & conditions and regulatory links and other low priority must-haves, the site footer is enjoying a renaissance as a strategic navigation and branding tool. The footer is often a repository for boring fine -print links, but Pop Upon Magazine has showcased 15 ...
Tags: archive, blog, design, Design Tactics, digital, Digital Branding, evolution, footer, interface, microsoft, Mobile, Web 2.0
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
The high bid for the much-coveted nation-wide C-block of 700 megahertz (MHz) band wireless spectrum being auctioned by the FCC stands at $4,713,823,000. Since it has exceeded the $4.6 billion reserve price, whoever wins this auction will be required to provide open access to competitors as well as all devices ...
Tags: access, interface, Mobile, open, spectrum
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