Mobile

FirefoxOS: Beyond Idealism

My former colleague Sergi Mansilla, now working on [FirefoxOS](http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxos/), [wrote a nice article about the promise of FirefoxOS](http://sergimansilla.com/blog/promise-of-ffos/):

Facebook’s Project Spartan

While Facebook released its [video calling feature](http://www.facebook.com/videocalling) yesterday, something much more interesting may be coming, possibly later this month. It is called [Project Spartan](http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-project-spartan/).

Google’s New Mobile Tab Interaction

It’s always interesting to observe how regular desktop web [interactions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design_pattern) can be translated to mobile. With the launch of [Google+](http://plus.google.com) with accompanying mobile web app, Google has changed…

Xamarin Progress

If you heard of Microsoft’s .NET, likely you will have heard of [Mono](http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page), the free and open source implementation of the parts that comprise .NET: CLR, Framework and C# compiler.

Mobile Apps Are Bad At Mobile

[David Singleton](http://blog.davidsingleton.org/mobiletcp) monitored his Internet connection while on a train journey. Most people have experienced what it is like using mobile Internet in a driving vehicle — it’s generally pretty unreliable.

Are Web Apps An Insult To Users?

Web apps vs. native apps for mobile — this appears to be [what](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/06/14/Native-vs-Web) [everybody](http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/06/native-vs-web) [is…

Web vs. Native On Mobile: The Never Ending Struggle

It seems to be an everlasting battle: what’s “better”: developing mobile _native_ applications or developing mobile _web_ applications? Sadly, the answer is boring: it depends.

Augmented Reality RPG

Last week, for the first time, I had some time to play some of the games I had been buying over the past months on my iPad. The one that made most of and impression was [Aralon](http://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/aralon-sword-and-shadow-hd/id399045373?mt=8), a role-playing game (RPG). I spent…

Is the Mobile Pendulum Swinging From Apps to the Web?

[GigaOM](http://gigaom.com/2010/05/12/is-the-mobile-pendulum-swinging-from-apps-to-the-web/):

> The number of mobile-friendly websites is increasing faster than expected, according to the latest data from Taptu…