Book and reserve airline tickets from a mobile phone

27 06 2008

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Emerging markets

15 06 2008

Vodafone’s Receiver magazine have published their 20th issue with a focus on emerging markets, articles include (with more too follow):

  • China and the next billion mobile customers by Jared Brauterman
  • Africa’s grassroots mobile revolution – a traveller’s perspective by Ken Banks

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Usability and mobile devices

25 03 2008

IT Wales has written a short article on usability guidelines for websites on mobile devices.  The seven guiding principles include:

  1. Meet users’ needs quickly;
  2. Don’t repeat the navigation on every page;
  3. Clearly distinguish selected items;
  4. Make user input as simple as possible;
  5. Only show essential information;
  6. Place basic browsing controls on the page;
  7. Design mobile-friendly page layouts.

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Los Villares and the mobile phone

25 08 2007

Los Villares a small village near Granada, Spain, has taken the unusual step of voting against the introduction of mobile phone coverage. Though we understand that the motion was only swung by one vote!

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iPhone and billing

25 08 2007

Users of the iPhone have started to receive their bills which can be as long as 300 pages. Watch Justine Ezarik on YouTube as she receives her bill from AT&T.

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