What I’m about to explain may seem obvious, but I’m not sure anyone fully understands the sort of tectonic and fundamental shift taking place in the tech sector with the development and fruition of the new smart phone as epitomized by Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Read more »

The iPhone and iPod touch continue to rank one and two as the top handsets worldwide for mobile traffic.

“AdMob has released its monthly Mobile Metrics Report for March, and to no one’s surprise, the iPhone and iPod touch are still hot devices for surfing the web on the go. Both are also hot devices for using mobile apps, too, as AdMob says that over half of the requests for ads from iPhones now come from third-party apps.”

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Since the release of the first iPhone over a year ago, interest in this device continues to grow at a rapid pace.  Apple set a goal to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008.  They are well on their way to achieving this.  It’s no surprise that Apple is now the world’s third largest Smartphone vendor.  As sales continue to climb, you should investigate the potential impact of this emerging market. Read more »

Last week a lot of revelations were made indicating that Apple had barred the Opera browser from the iPhone. Reports explained Apple blocked the browser company Opera from distributing a mobile version of its browser, Opera Mini, to iPhone users because it competes with Apple’s own Safari browser. It appeared to many Apple was again restricting useful applications from iPhone users—something it has been accused of doing in the past. Read more »

Ten years ago most small business owners didn’t have a website and probably didn’t see the need for one. Now, a business without a website is considered second rate at best. A website is a necessity for doing business in the 21st century - but how does your website appear on the screens of today’s most popular mobile devices? Read more »

The iPhone is transforming the Web as we know it and compelling every Web designer to consider handheld portable devices. Read more »

At iPhoneDevCamp we had the pleasure of meeting some of the folks from AdMob, a mobile advertising company with some great tools for iPhone website developers. The AdMob services allow iPhone microsite owners to monetize their iPhone traffic by serving highly interactive targeted ads to their visitors. Read more »

According to the latest data from mobile advertising company AdMob, traffic from Apple’s iPhone on AdMob’s advertising network almost doubled in August. Apple’s iPhone saw the fastest growth of all smartphones worldwide, closely followed by the Samsung Instinct. It is also noteworthy that the top 5 smartphones in the U.S. generated 54% of all smartphone traffic. Read more »

SAN MATEO, Calif., Sep 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DeviceAnywhere(TM), the leading global provider of end-to-end solutions for the mobile development lifecycle, today unveiled the new Apple iPhone 3G as the latest addition to its expanding roster of mobile devices available to developers worldwide over an Internet-based service.  Read more »

Inspired by PhoneGap, BigFive offers an extended web browser that adds additional functionality to your web apps such as geolocation, taking photos, tracking acceleration and causing vibration. This API allows web developers to access native iPhone capabilities without learning Objective-C. Read more »

For the technically inclined, Sitepen published an article today from Neil Roberts which covers touches and gesturing on the iPhone. In the article, he discusses his tests with the new APIs, which support drag and drop with touch, resize and rotate with gestures. Read more »