Why Mobile Design Should Never Be an Afterthought

Tom Wentworth is chief marketing officer at Ektron Inc., a provider of web content management and marketing optimization solutions. As the web evolved over the years, companies pursued a basic mobile strategy that could be summed up as follows: Cram all the content you can onto a website, and then adapt it for mobile use [...]

YouTube Accounts for 22% of Mobile Data Usage [REPORT]

Mobile data use grew by 77% for the first half of the year and YouTube accounts for 22% of that, according to a new report. Allot Communications’s MobileTrends Report, released Tuesday, found that video streaming grew 93% for that period and is the largest single application taking up bandwidth. Some 39% of mobile bandwidth is [...]

The Future of Mobile Payments [INFOGRAPHIC]

We know that mobile payments are redefining commerce, but will our phones soon replace our wallets? PayPal seems to think so. The payments giant boldly predicts that the wallet will be dead by 2015. It’s putting its money where its mouth is: it recently acquired mobile payments provider Zong for $ 240 million. PayPal isn’t [...]

Revolutionary Mobile Search Queries Apps Instead of the Web

Mobile search startup Do@ is changing how we hunt for information on our phones. Typically, if you want to find something while you’re out and about, you turn to the mobile web and spend a few minutes on a search engine’s mobile website. Or you launch one of a dozen or more apps to help [...]

Mobile Developers Still Choosing Android Over iOS

Android widened its lead on iOS as the format in which developers chose to code for, with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 in fourth place. Today @ PCWorld

Shipping Containers Become Mobile Mini-Theaters

Used transportation and storage units transform into brightly colored miniature movie theaters for special screenings of eight short films in the USA Network’s Character Project. Our favorite: A look at the real-life inspiration for The Big Lebowski‘s superslacker, The Dude. Wired Top Stories

New Foreign-Exchange Payment Service from Western Union Gives Mobile Freedom to Business Clients with Smartphones

New Foreign-Exchange Payment Service from Western Union Gives Mobile Freedom to Business Clients with Smartphones ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–New FX Payment Service from Western Union Gives Mobile Freedom to Business Clients with Smartphones Read more on Business Wire FTC sues ‘earn ,000-a-month’ counselor The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit against three companies that allegedly served [...]