Issue 8: Mobile World Congress 2009 - The Austerity Congress?

With three years to go, there is already talk of the 2012 Olympics being another 'austerity games'. In less than a fortnight, the mobile industry has its annual gathering in Barcelona. Will this be the 'austerity congress'? Download...

Issue 7: Are web apps the future?

There has been a consistent mantra when developing applications for mobile devices: performance, performance, performance.  With limited hardware resources and a restricted interface, applications had to be designed specifically for a given handset.  Each batch of code tweaked to extract the maximum from the chosen device.

But that is beginning to change.  Download...

Issue 6: The Dawn of the Open Mobile

The fractured nature of the mobile market is a common cause for complaint from software developers. There are more than three billion handsets worldwide. Yet with no dominant platform, as Windows is for the PC, it is a struggle for developers to reach more than a tiny fraction of those devices. Download...

Issue 4: Outsourcing gets intimate

'Outsourcing' has become a dirty word. Many consumers associate it with call centres abroad, now seen as 'A Bad Thing'. Dell famously had to repatriate its foreign call centres after complaints from customers. Download...

Issue 3: Death of the Keypad

The mobile handset industry is beginning to wake up to the fact that the numeric keypad is not the most efficient input device. New alternatives using both hardware and software are either in development or already on the market. Download...

Issue 2: Countdown to Mobile 2.0

How soon can we expect the next evolution of mobile and mobile Web applications? The first signs of life are out there, but there are challenges and considerations specific to the mobile web. Download...

Issue 1: Frustrated Users Costing Mobile Industry

There's plenty of hype around the mobile industry. But the man in the street doesn't always share the industry's enthusiasm, as proved by two recent surveys. Download...