In June 2009, I wrote about Apache Mobile Filter that allows WURFL (now gone commercial) access from any programming language, not just Java and php.
Now that the service is more popular and WURFL has gone commercial, Apache Mobile Filter has been updated to include further device repositories DetectRight and 51Degrees.mobi. The author hopes to […]

Barely a day goes by without me receiving a press release on yet another mobile app generator or framework. The frameworks tend to be more interesting for me as they allow developers to do more. Today I came across a useful mobile framework comparison chart. Although it currently only maps platforms to frameworks, it’s already getting […]

Nielsen has some statistics on the total time spent on apps and web, the proportion spent on each and a breakdown of apps that account for the majority of the time.

An hour a day is spent interacting with apps and web
67% of this time is spent on apps
The top 10 Android apps account for 43 percent […]

The Vision Mobile Developer Economics report has an interesting chart showing fragmentation of the various platforms. That is, the number of versions of an app that have to be developed to cater for different versions of a given OS.
 

This concurs with my previous observation that problems of Android Fragmentation have been exaggerated. However, I suppose […]

Related to my post last week on companies not having mobile web sites, there are lots of stats at the Microsoft’s Mobile Commerce Revolution: Smartphones & Smarter Shoppers Infographic. Here’s an excerpt…

 
Top Rank, the online marketing blog has some useful tips to get you started.

Related Articles:Google Mobile Sites

A while ago I mentioned how many mobile ads have nothing to point to and that companies should really have a cross PC and mobile strategy.
Yesterday, Google sites introduced support for mobile that provides a quick and easy way to solve these problems. However, it only claims to support iOS and Android (i.e. HTML based […]

There’s an interesting article at the GSMA on "The benefits of native versus web apps". Although  the article mentions little about the ‘benefits’, it talks more about how apps are becoming more popular than the web…
"Native apps are already capturing 50 percent of all data volume, stealing share from the web browser"
We are told that…
"App […]