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Mark R Anderson

The big merger of 2008: The mobile phone and Web

Mark R Anderson05.05.2008
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will take like wildfire (no pun intended). After all, it's going to all be one platform now, with different faces.

The Prediction: The Phone and Web Worlds Will Merge. (or) Walled Gardens Will Get RoundUpped. Net Neutrality will prevail; carrier and ISP garden walls will fall. The Box Guys (computers) will win over Pipes Guys (telecoms). Handheld makers will win over carriers, a la Apple and Nokia. Samsung, Microsoft, and Google now join them in control.

Tribes will move from phones to the Web as part of this merger. Question: How do you carry your tribal affiliations around on the Web? Widgets let you put them in Facebook, but ...


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"For programmers, this is a huge challenge: What you write for the office PC has to work on the phone, and what you were writing for the phone has to be accessible and smart-looking on a much larger screen. Are you ready?"

Assuming you're talking about web applications here, then the answer is yes, we're ready. Modern web developers and designers should be using Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH). One can then stylizing that content using unobtrusive CSS and add behavior using unobtrusive JavaScript. One of the benefits of using pure CSS design is that you can have different style sheets for different media. In the context of this article the two media types would be "screen" and "mobile."


Web applications on mobile phones is really a great idea and I don't think that it will be much difficult for web developers to take this challenge. These days various cheap mobile phones are available with great features and this feature will be an added advantage for everybody.


The web applications on mobile phones, it's a great technology for increase the mobile industry. Sony Ericsson Mobile Phones, Nokia N Series, iPhone, LG phons, and motorola phones these are branded phones. It's had great features at mobile phones by the web applications.


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yes!! mobile tech and web are directly related now a days. you can check on web some very branded websites, search engine and forums has been launched a their mobile application to access their application. because has such no time to go cafe and other computer places.they just want to check their mails without go way where so it is very easy some very good
Nokia Mobile Phones having gprs facility.


Great News! What is going in telecom industry? Recently, in India going on something different with the mobile subscriber. I am thinking about mobile phones that are not only for out of web user it is now use for web user for increase their visibility.


Yes, you have written well. In my point of view mobile phone and web have come together with the web 3.0. Basically, it is the competition of Google mobile and other touch screen phone in the against of iPhone. Even, Microsoft announced to launch app for iPhone. iPhone application is the merge of mobile phone and web. Sharing RSS on iPhone is the main merger of web with mobile phones.


The iPhone is quite simply a mile ahead of the rest of the phones, i was always a Nokia man but when the iPhone was released it wiped the floor. The apps are superb and the web and email functions are 10 times better than the Blackberry Storm and the N96, looking forward to seeing the new Nokia N97, if it's as good as Vodafone are saying it is then the iPhone has a fight on it's hands. I have written a short article about the N97 on one of my sites ( http://www.paperdeals.co.uk/vodafone-co-uk-n97/4446/ ) let me know what you think.


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