 Carriers, developers opening up to potential of mobile web ·Nov 26, 12:43 PM From the New York Times online: "On the surface, the mobile Web is a happening place. There’s the iPhone in all its glory. More than 30 companies have signed up for the Open Handset Alliance from Google, which aims to bring the wide-open development environment of the Internet to mobile devices… "It all looks good, but the wireless communications business smacks of a soap opera, with disaster lurking like your next dropped call… "While many phones have some form of Web access, most are hard to use — just finding "The carriers, however, seem to be having a change of heart about the mobile Web. AT&T has allowed Apple unusual control over the network in the iPhone, and Sprint and T-Mobile have signed on to the Android development platform of the Open Handset Alliance. "Industry watchers think that having started, the mobile Web will inexorably open over the next five years, solving many current problems. "For instance, there’s the challenge of finding things on the Web from a mobile phone… "Zumobi hopes that cellphone users will adopt tiles as their entry point to the Web; the company offers a scrolling interface of 16 such tiles that provide information with mass appeal, but users can set their own preferences. Software developers will be able to build a tile — in fact, Amazon.com has 12 ready to go — and put it on Zumobi’s platform. Tiles can carry ads as well, creating revenue potential for carriers and developers… "Other approaches to solving this problem include Yahoo Go, a mobile Internet product certified to display Web pages correctly on more than 300 handsets… "For now, widespread use of the mobile Web remains both far off and inevitable. Read this entire article at the New York Times online. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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a place to type in a Web address can be a challenge. And once you find it, most Web content doesn’t look very good on cellphone screens…
