Friday, May 18, 2012

Mobile Website Development - Miami Florida


Hi,
know you're busy so I'll try to make this short. If you haven't heard yet, mobile is here and now !
If your business doesn't go mobile now, you'll be left behind. The world of mobile accessibility is not just a trend, it's the future market.


We use our cell phones for everything, our calendars, our libraries, our cameras, our computers, the list goes on. 

Our mobile phone has everything on it that we need throughout the entire day.

In fact, 91% of everyone in the U.S. has their mobile device within their reach 24/7. It's not enough to have a website.
 
You need to have a full online presence that includes a mobile website in order to stay afloat.
As with any advertisement platform, you have 5 seconds to engage your clients attention on the mobile web. If you fail to satisfy their needs, you can kiss their business goodbye.

Searches performed on a mobile device already account for more than 50% of all local searches, and by 2014 mobile web will completely overtake desktop internet.Mobile Sites are a reduced version of your desktop version, they are created to provide specific information to your clients old and new.



With a mobile site you can provide information about your company and products. A tap to call button makes it extremely easy to call your business. With the interactive map on your mobile site, your clients will find your business location using the GPS feature of their phone. The GPS will bring them right to your door. If they find your site useful they can also share your info on facebook and twitter by the simple tap of a button, email is also just a tap away, and if you have a youtube video presentation they'll view it right on your mobile site!


HERE ARE SOME FACTS:
1- 70% of all mobile searches result in action within 1 hour !
2- When searching on a mobile device, Google Places now ranks mobile websites ahead of non-mobile ones.
3- 50% of mobile searches are location based.
4- In the last year, mobile web searches have increased 400%

Take just a moment to pull up your current website on your mobile phone !
Is it hard to resize and adjust your website to fit the screen in order for your clients to read or find what they're looking for ?
If you were your client, would you consider staying on your site or going back to it at some time in the future?

Here are a couple of mobile website examples, look at these on your mobile phone:

Lift Stations R Us
http://omg1.myw2m.com

Remember, a mobile site will cost you less than your desktop version and with the amount of revenue you'll gain, it'll pay for itself in just few months.
We're currently offering you a mobile website for your business at just $558 which includes FREE hosting for the first year (a $170/yr value).

Oh, and by the way once we're finished creating your site you'll be able to login and make changes to the content and photos with no knowledge of web programming whatsoever, simply login and use the text editor to make the changes, It's that simple !

NOTE: Your mobile website is created with the content of your existing site no there's no need to break away from your busy schedule to provide us with information for the mobile site.

To order your mobile website give us a call today at (305) 909-2083 or visit our new site Go Mobile Miami www.gomobilemiami.com to place your order online.

Act Now, Go Mobile Today and...
Start Cashing In On The Mobile Market !

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

You’ll never believe how LinkedIn built its new iPad app



Guess how much of LinkedIn’s new iPad app is actually mobile web and not native.

Go ahead — guess. We’ve had a lot of fun asking people to guess this over the past couple days. They’ll start with 40 percent and edge up to 70 percent, but no one comes close to the real figure: 95 percent.

Yes, only one screen in the entire LinkedIn iPad app is actually native. The rest is good ol’ HTML5-based mobile web technology, running in the browser and leaning heavily on Node.js.

We were shocked to hear this 95-percent figure from Kiran Prasad, who heads up LinkedIn’s mobile development team. Shocked, but not appalled — after all, Prasad was the engineering heft behind the company’s recent slew of gorgeous mobile apps, which were also heavily reliant on the mobile web.

But the new iPad app had struck us as so surprisingly sexy during our initial review that we had to know more about how Prasad and his team of four (yep, just four devs built this app) packed so much punch into a web app for a tablet.

Especially as Silicon Valley tech companies pick sides in the web-versus-native war, it’s fascinating to see the presumably conservative LinkedIn lean toward the more progressive side of mobile technology. But this is a stance this team has taken for a while now, and LinkedIn is currently one of the mobile web’s biggest supporters and strongest case studies.
LinkedIn and the mobile web

“Last year, we had just launched three different phone apps. We were starting to invest more in HTML5,” Prasad told VentureBeat yesterday.

“We had a 60/40 split where about 60 percent of any app was in HTML5.”

LinkedIn’s big news at that time was how it had employed Node.js in its at-scale mobile apps — what seemed to many to be a pretty big gamble for the company. But the other part of the story was how Prasad and his team combined native and mobile web functionality in iPhone and Android apps, creating hybrids that bridged the divide in the native-versus-web mobile debate.

Now, Prasad said the company relies on mobile web technologies more than ever. “Because we made that full investment, being able to get the mobile web on a tablet was really doable,” he said.

Of course, being able to have greater developer efficiency was a draw, but Prasad said that would never have come at the expense of creating a beautiful, responsive app that would be a pleasure to use.

“We always focus on user experience and app speed as a number one priority,” he told us. “If the performance wasn’t there, we wouldn’t have gone with the web.

“But with the iPad having the faster processor and being a more powerful mobile device, we felt like the web-based version could give us the performance we needed.”

In the end, Prasad continued, it came down to the little things: Did onscreen buttons depress and pop back up quickly when tapped with a fingertip? Was scrolling snappy? Did crossfades occur smoothly and without any lag?

“We did users studies in-house, and I don’t think people noticed a big difference. Nobody said, ‘Oh that’s native,’ or ‘Oh, that’s web,’” said Prasad. “As long as we can make the experience fast enough, nobody can tell the difference. It still feels right.”

And a lot of that performance, Prasad said, came from removing unnecessary design wankery (our verbiage, not his) — the rounded corners, the omnipresent gradients. By making things simple, clean, modern, flat, and even print magazine-like, the LinkedIn app only got faster and better on the performance side, as well.

“Our focus on trying to get a simpler design is actually helping us make things faster. It’s a good feedback loop,” said Prasad.

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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Nokia Teams Up With Carl Zeiss, Reveals 41-Megapixel Camera Phone




Finnish telecommunications company Nokia has teamed up with German lens-maker Carl Zeiss to make high-end camera phones.

According to Reuters, the new top-of-the-range model by the two companies would be launched later this month.

Nokia told Reuters that the first model would use its new “PureView camera technology”.

It will feature a Carl Zeiss sensor with 41 megapixels—which is more advanced than cameras used by professional photographers.

However, the first Nokia-Carl Zeiss camera phone would use Nokia’s old Symbian operating system—which the company will soon phase out

For future models, Nokia would release Windows Phones systems with the advanced camera technology

“We’re going to carry on developing PureView for our future smartphones,” Jo Harlow, Nokia’s Head of Smart Devices, told Reuters.

The two companies would be running the deal for several years—which Nokia hopes would help it compete more effectively against other smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone.

[via Reuters]

Skype Left Privacy Vulnerability Unfixed For More Than A Year

Skype has left a privacy vulnerability unfixed for more than a year.

According to Wired, researchers from Polytechnic Institute of New York University had discovered the problem in Skype that allows people to track the geographical location Skype users and identify the users’ IP addresses.

The team of researchers discovered the vulnerability in 2010 and notified the company. In 2011, they published the information.

They were also able to track 10,000 Skype users for two weeks after discovering the vulnerability.

However, according to former researcher Steven Le Blond, the vulnerability remains unfixed.

Keith Ross, one of the researches, believes that Skype failed to rectify the problem as it may be too “deeply embedded in the code” and would require “heavy restructuring” of the program to be resolved.

When questioned on the researchers’ discovery, Skype’s director of product security Adrian Asher said Skype would be investigating the researchers’ reports.

He also added that it is an issue faced by all peer-to-peer software companies.