Mobile

Sixth Sense -- What a Demo!!

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:20:22 GMT

When you think out of the box, this is what is the possibility, you can make something so advanced with something so simple... and that also cheaper than the current available options....

Thanks to Parnav Mistry and Pattie Maes for such a brilliant work they have done.

I bet you will not be able to stop yourself from clapping after looking at the video / future.

If you can't see the below video, click here

--Manish Agrawal

iPhone SDK -- What a Demo!!

Manish Agrawal — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:24:36 GMT

Mobile 2.0

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:26:58 GMT

This is a nice presentation prepared by Ruddy, capturing Mobile Trends and Mobile Products.

Mobile 2.0 @ Plugg

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Future of Mobile VAS in India

Manish Agrawal — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:49:38 GMT

Nice presentation on Mobile VAS in India.

Mobile Vas In India

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Future Mobile -- nice Presentation

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:29:18 GMT

How the future of the mobile web is going to change everything

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If the above presentation is not very clear and is not making sense at few places, you can see the Full Video or Highlights of the Video also.

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 9) - ANDROID Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:47:03 GMT

An Introduction to Android by Jason Chen. Android is the Open Handset Alliance's mobile software platform. In this session, Google introduces Android and discuss their vision for more open, powerful, and us...	Anatomy & Physiology of an Android Patrick Brady (Google) Android has been designed as a modern mobile platform that will enable applications to take full advantage of the mobile device capabiliti...


Inside the Android Application Framework Dan Morrill (Google) Android is designed to be fast, powerful, and easy to develop for. This session will discuss the Android application framework in dept...	Building an Android Application 101 Jason Chen (Google) This session is a practical introduction to building Android applications using the SDK and developer tools. We'll walk through building a n...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 2) - Google API specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:36:40 GMT

Extend the Reach of your Google Apps Environment with Google APIs Jackie Bodine, Ryan Boyd (Google) and Ron Hess (Salesforce.com) Google Apps already gives your organization an out-of-the-(virtual...	Spice up Your Web Apps with Google AJAX APIs Mark Lucovsky (Google) Integrating Google Search into a website can be simple using the Google AJAX APIs. Mark will show how a few lines of JavaScript ...


Visualize your Data: Google Visualization API The new Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualiza...	From Mashups to Mapplets David Day (Google) Mapplets are mini-applications that run within Google Maps, allowing you to add new feature or overlay your data directly onto Google Maps. These applic...


My Maps Editing API Keith Golden (Google) Want to know how to add My Maps features on your own mashup? Come and learn how to use some of basic map creation tools from My Maps features and add to y..

May 31st: Posts I liked

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:58:43 GMT

Mobile VAS related:

Ivan Komarov as an editor of Eyeline Communication, has written many excellent blog-posts on Mobile technology. Link to few of them which I liked are as under:
- What is WAP- 2 ?
- USSD related posts

Trends of Mobile Internet - (on Opera Mini)

Manish Agrawal — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:57:12 GMT

Lately Opera Software has released a report on Opera Mini usage and Trends of Mobile Internet.

You can access the report here.

As per the Report:

Social Networking is the most popular service on Mobile devices among other Mobile Internet Sites.
One Web will triumph over WAP content

I am just pasting the report in my post as well, I hope Opera will not mind this and anyways it will be free promotion of Opera Mini Mobile Browser.

Top Trends

Social networking stands supreme
Almost 40% of traffic worldwide is to social networks. In some countries, such as the United States, South Africa and Indonesia, the social Web accounts for more than 60% of the traffic.

One Web will triumph over WAP content
Full Web surfing comprises more than 77% of all traffic. Content on WAP and .mobi sites accounted for 23% of mobile Web traffic. This share continues to decline as more consumers both use Opera Mini to access rich Web content and become more comfortable browsing the Web on their phones.

Part 1: Growth

Opera Mini cumulative users per month

Cumulative Users

Opera Mini has become the world's most popular mobile browser. Since its worldwide launch in 2006, more than 44 million people have downloaded and used Opera Mini. More than 11.9 million people used Opera Mini in March 2008. In the last quarter, the number of people who downloaded and used Opera Mini grew 26% over the prior quarter in 2007.

Pages transcoded by Opera Mini per month

Pages Transcoded

Opera Mini users viewed more than 2.4 billion pages in March. In the first three months of 2008, the number of pages viewed through Opera Mini grew almost 57% over the last quarter of 2007. In March, each person using Opera Mini viewed 202 pages on average.

Total data consumed per month (in MB)

Data Consumed

As the content available to mobile phones improves, data consumption increases. Last month, those 11.9 million Opera Mini users generated more than 33 million MB of data for operators worldwide. This represents an almost 88% growth over the previous quarter.

Part 2: Content Preferences

By examining aggregate numbers, we are able to paint a picture of the types of sites and services that win on the mobile Web. Tracking the type of content across the top 100 sites visited by all Opera Mini users, we find:

Social networking is popular worldwide and is the leading source of Web traffic for mobile devices.
Successful sites on the Web find users on mobile phones, further underscoring the emergence of One Web.
Consumers desire a rich Web experience regardless of the device they use to access the Web. WAP continues to diminish as more-capable Web browsers are able to display full Web content on mobile phones.
Nearly a quarter of all traffic is headed to content portals or search engines.

Snapshot of the top 10 countries for Opera Mini (ranked by usage):

Snapshot: Russia

Russian Opera Mini users consume more entertainment content than users in all countries except for Ukraine. Traffic to entertainment, leisure and sports sites comprise almost 40% of Web traffic to mobile phones.

Snapshot: Indonesia

With 63% of traffic going to social networks, Indonesia is tied with the United States as the number one country for social networking on the mobile Web.

Snapshot: China

Web portal content and search engine access is extremely popular in China, accounting for nearly 55% of the traffic.
E-commerce and e-mail are not yet as popular in China as in other parts of the world. Together, these two categories combine to create less than 2% of overall Opera Mini traffic in China.

Snapshot: United States

More than 63% of U.S. Web traffic on mobile phones is to social networks, tying it with Indonesia for the number one spot.

Snapshot: India

India favors social networking, with nearly half (48.9%) of all traffic going to social networks.

Snapshot: South Africa

A very high 61% of traffic in South Africa is to social networks.
South Africa has the second-highest penetration of e-mail access on mobile devices (more than 4% of the traffic).

Snapshot: Ukraine

Opera Mini users in the Ukraine enjoy their entertainment and sports. More than 61% of traffic is in this category.
Mobile-optimized content remains popular in the Ukraine--more than 43% of Opera Mini traffic in the Ukraine is directed towards WAP sites.

Snapshot: United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is the world leader in mobile e-mail, although that number remains small. More than 11% of traffic in Q1 was to Web-based e-mail services.

Snapshot: Germany

Compared to users in other countries, German users shop the most on Opera Mini. E-commerce accounts for more than 7% of German Opera Mini traffic.
German users of Opera Mini enjoy entertainment and sports content on their mobile phones. More than 28% of traffic heads to entertainment and other leisure sites.

Snapshot: Poland

In Poland, people using Opera Mini prefer to access the full Web from their mobile phones--only 4% of the traffic is to WAP or .mobi sites.

--Manish Agrawal

May 21st: Posts I liked

Manish Agrawal — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:30:16 GMT

Mobile Application related: