3

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Mobileview story

http://mashable.com – In honor of Mashable’s five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Join social conversations to market your brand with IDG’s social advertising platform, IDG Amplify. Learn more about how it works here.Five years ago, the mobile landscape was in many ways, a world apart from where we are now. The Motorola Razr was on its way to breaking sales records worldwide, the SideKick II was Paris Hilton’s best friend, and the BlackBerry was still all about business. While smartphones existed, the devices were really more like PDAs with a phone built-in rather (General)

jie772's picture
jie772 submitted 5 weeks 3 days ago –Made popular 5 weeks 2 days ago Tags:

Similar stories

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media 6 weeks 2 days ago

In honor of Mashable’s five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Customers are talking about your brand and products — find out what they are saying with IDG Social Scout.Five years ago, YouTube was just getting started, MySpace was the most popular website in the U.S., and Facebook was still limited to college and high school students. Mobile was mostly an after-thought, as we were still more than a year away from the introduction of the iPhone and the idea of an app store. And “widgets” were just starting to emerge as a way to integrate third-party apps on a website (Newsweek would declare 2007 to be “year of the widget” in a late 2006 article).

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Blogging 4 weeks 3 days ago

In honor of Mashable’s five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Customers are talking about your brand and products — find out what they are saying with IDG Social Scout.Five years is eons in Internet time, and a lot has changed in the blogosphere since 2005. Sites have been born, sites have died, sites have grown up and others have faded away. Entirely new blogging formats have been created and business empires have been built on the foundations of humble blog beginnings.

5 Companies Reinventing the Way We Think About Mobile 9 weeks 3 days ago

This Innovation Series is supported by Lexus.Looking at the mobile computing landscape over the last five years, it is amazing to see how far we have come and how integral mobile devices have become to people all over the world. We’re constantly reporting on phones that are lighter, thinner and more powerful than anything to have come before — only to be usurped a few months (or weeks) later by the next big advancement.As mobile computing moves beyond the mobile phone and into devices like the iPad and other tablet computers, we would like to take a look at five of the companies that are changing the future of mobile, and that have a strong hand in defining and shaping the devices we will be using in the future.federated_media_section = "lexus";

5 Things to Consider When Designing Your Mobile App 8 weeks 1 day ago

This series is supported by Webtrends Mobile Analytics, which lets you monitor the adoption and usage of your mobile apps and mobile sites. To keep up with Webtrends Mobile, add their blog to your RSS reader.Thanks to the slogan “There’s an App For That” and the surging iOS, Android and BlackBerry markets, it seems like practically every company has a mobile app. In fact, in many ways, the mobile app today is what the website was ten years ago — one of those tools that has transferred from being a luxury into a necessity for businesses of all sizes.

Programming the Mobile Web 5 weeks 6 days ago

Book Description
Today’s market for mobile apps goes beyond the iPhone to include BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone, and smartphones powered by Android, webOS, and other platforms. If you’re an experienced web developer, this book shows you how to build a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. You’ll learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile apps with HTML, CSS, and other standard web tools.
You’ll also explore platform variations, finicky mobile browsers, Ajax design patterns for mobile, and much more. Before you know it, you’ll be able to create mashups using Web 2.0 APIs in apps for the App Store, App World, OVI Store, Android Market, and other online retailers.

WorkLight Now Supports BlackBerry Devs 2 days 22 hours ago

Mobile application developers can now use the WorkLight Platform to create and manage apps for BlackBerry OS 5 and OS 6 devices.
With this latest addition to its support of iOS and Android devices, WorkLight now allows businesses to cover all three major smartphones with a single platform.
“As RIM continues to launch new devices and technologies, with the release of Torch and recent talk of an upcoming BlackPad, we are seeing increasing demand from companies looking to reach BlackBerry’s large installed base of users worldwide,” said Shahar Kaminitz, CEO of WorkLight.

Is There Enough Flame in the BlackBerry Torch? 4 weeks 2 days ago

Earlier today, RIM introduced the BlackBerry Torch, the company’s first smartphone to ship with BlackBerry OS 6 and perhaps more importantly RIM’s attempt to remind the world that it’s still a big player in the smartphone market.

Android Phones Selling Faster Than They Can Be Built 12 weeks 21 hours ago

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha revealed to Reuters today that the company’s Android-powered mobile devices are selling faster than they can be manufactured. Verizon has had similar experiences with the Droid Incredible from HTC, an Android phone whose biggest problem has been that demand outstrips current supply.More Motorola devices, including several with front-facing cameras for video conferencing, are slated for release later this year. Sprint’s EVO, another video conferencing-capable Android handset, has been on sale for just a few days and is already sold out and breaking Sprint sales records, too.Additionally LG, a company that had previously committed to releasing Windows Mobile handsets, has stated it will release 20 Android handsets this year alone.

20 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed 19 weeks 5 days ago

Big changes in the social media landscape this week mean there’s a lot to discuss. These posts highlight all the latest and greatest tools, tips, trends, and strategies for navigating the ever-changing social waters.Included in this week’s edition is some cautionary advice about Facebook and dating, some great mobile app lists for spring, and analysis of Twitter’s brand new advertising model.So kick back, relax, and dedicate some weekend catch-up time to these 20 resources that may have passed you by.Social Media