Brent Sordyl’s blog

(Link: TappGala: The Best in Mobile Interface Design)

Uncategorized design, for:trent.fisher@gmail.com, mobile

Our mobile site is designed to work on modern smartphones. If you’re using a 4 year old Nokia phone with a 120×160 screen, our site does not and will not work for you. If you want to test on older/less-smart phones, PPK has a quick overview post that has some pointers. Even so, getting the current smartphone OS running is no piece of cake. So this post will outline how to get iPhone, Android, WebOS, and, ugh, BlackBerry running in emulation. Note: I left out Windows Mobile, as does 99% of the smartphone buying public.
(Link: Setting up smartphone emulators for testing mobile websites)

Uncategorized mobile, testing

Palm, the smartphone pioneer, is on the block. The company, which in recent years has been eclipsed by the iPhone (and to some extent by Google’s Android OS), failed to make much of a comeback with its most recent Pre and Pixi phones.

Now Bloomberg reports the inevitable: Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners have been tasked with finding a buyer for the ailing company, and bids may be sought as early as this week
(Link: Palm is For Sale)

Uncategorized mobile, palm, tweet

eLearning Simplified
Create, Publish, and Sell your courses
in an Online Community.
(Link: Odijoo free eLearning Platform – create, deliver and monetize online courses with Odijoo)

Uncategorized e-learning, for:richesh, lms, mobile

Google mobile learning and you get 103 million hits. At EDUCAUSE.edu, the same search results in 4,060 hits, including articles in EDUCAUSE Quarterly and EDUCAUSE Review. Browse through the EDUCAUSE 2009 conference site and you will discover mobile learning will be one of the dominant themes at this years conference.

There seems to be a disconnect between our excitement and the reality of mobile learning.
(Link: Why Hasn’t Mobile Learning Gained Traction? – Inside Higher Ed)

Uncategorized e-learning, mobile

“about half” of US kids aged 12+ have cellphones, reports Alina Tugend in the New York Times, citing Yankee Group research
(Link: Cellphone: A kid’s other computer)

Uncategorized kids, mobile

mPayy accounts for individuals enable secure electronic payments directly from your checking account. Shop or send money to friends online, with your mobile device or through your favorite social network. Earn Cash Back Rewards when you shop with mPayy.
(Link: mPayy – The Mobile Payment Company)

Uncategorized mobile, payments

The mobiReady testing tool evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards.
The free report provides both a score (from 1 to 5) and in-depth analysis of pages to determine how well your site performs on a mobile device.
(Link: ready.mobi – dotMobi compliance & mobileOK checker)

Uncategorized mobile, testing, usability

This is a resource to share K-12 projects that have integrated student cell phones
(Link: k12cellphoneprojects – home)

Uncategorized k12, mobile

“The fact that Silverlight for mobile has been announced two years ago and we don’t have a public beta is surprising. But what is more surprising is that Silverlight mobile is over a year away!”
(Link: Silverlight Mobile is 3 years late)

web2.0 mobile, propelpot, ria, silverlight

jQTouch – A jQuery plugin with native animations
A jQuery plugin with native animations, auto list navigation, and default application styles for Mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1, and Pre.

web2.0 development, iphone, jQuery, mobile