Mobify Webinar – Mobify Studio Tutorial
For those of you who missed our webinar two weeks ago, here is a recorded version. We cover Mobify Studio and talk about some great mobile websites that are out there right now.
On our next webinar, we’ll be focusing on mobifying Drupal. Stay tuned for more details and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter (@mobify) for latest updates!
Mobify Weekly – The Latest Threads in the Mobile Web
Hello everyone and welcome to another issue of Mobify Weekly! Here are some great links that we’ve run across this week!
Boston wins Digital Government’s “Best of the Web” Award We’re very happy for our friends in Boston for winning this prestigious award. They were recognized for many of their achievements including prioritizing mobile web accessibility for their city’s website. City of Boston’s mobile website was praised for being fast, functional, and useful to its visitors. (Stay tuned for an interview with the Boston team on their experiences!)
Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile Phones Released Opera gave the Windows Mobile crowd a breath of fresh air this week with their new release of the Opera Mini mobile browser. This is very good news for users who are on expensive mobile networks as Opera claims to cut down the amount of data transfer by up to 90 percent.
Why Your Business Needs a Mobile Commerce Strategy Great article by Bill Zielke, senior director of Merchant Services at PayPal on how Mobile Commerce is already becoming the next big thing to hit the web. Is your mobile website ready for the holiday shopping season?
Speed Counts Recently published survey: your visitors will leave your site and may never come back if it loads too slowly. 32 percent of visitors leave a slow loading website within one and five seconds. 84 will give up on a slow loading site after trying it a few times. This really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone but it’s nice to see some solid stats. Stats by Compuware.
UPDATE: Nokia Replaces CEO, Brings on Microsoft’s President of Business Division This move is long overdue but Stephen Elop was inaugurated this morning at Nokia. Nokia’s share has been threatened ever since the release of the iPhone and Stephen is expected to reposition the company for a counterattack. At Microsoft, one of the things that Stephen was responsible for was Microsoft Office. Can he steer the hardware giant through the rough water? Only time will tell.
Wishing you a fantastic weekend and see you all next week!
Mobify Weekly – The Latest Threads in the Mobile Web
Hello everyone and welcome to the new edition of our weekly issue! Here are some interesting links that we’ve run across.
The Number of Women Accessing Mobile Web Is Growing Faster than the Number of Males Even though male users still outnumber female users, the women are quickly catching up according to Opera’s new report. Increased buying power is one of the things that are attributed to the increase.
Android Mobile Web Use Up 400% in Q2, Outpacing Apple & BlackBerry While both Apple and BlackBerry still have a strong grip on the mobile web market, there’s no denying that Android is catching up very quickly. The mobile web market is expanding very rapidly and Android has the advantage of being able to engage multiple market segments at once.
Mobile Ads Performance Across Devices: Apple Down, BlackBerry Down, Android Up Mobile stars published by Millennial Report have backed what we’ve seen so far across mobile metrics reports: Android is on a roll going from 11 to 19 percent of total ad impressions in July alone.
12.8 Million or Around One Quarter of UK Are Smartphone Owners Smartphone ownership in UK grew by a staggering 81 percent over the last 12 moths with an average of 1.3 hours a month spent browsing the mobile web. The last part may not seem like much until we consider that this caused the amount of mobile data sent across networks to grow by 240 percent!
