Archives of Mobile Web

The Evolution of Mobile Web

Early attempts to provide a mobile Internet experience in the 1990s were hampered by low processing power of feature phones. In 1997, the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum released WAP 1.0 — a specification outlining standard information access directives for mobile devices. However, instead of uniting mobile carriers worldwide as intended, WAP 1.0 served as […]

Mobile Commerce

Overview In 2006, 73 percent of Americans reported cell phone ownership (Madden, 2006) By 2012 there were some six billion mobile subscriptions globally (mobiThinking, 2012) — nearly as many cell phones as there are people on Earth (World Bank). This dramatic increase in just a half decade is predicted to continue with the expansion of […]

Disruptive Technology

Redefining Connectivity The past decade has seen transformation and disruption in networking due to innovations in smartphone technology, and increased use of wireless sensors. Mobile subscriptions have risen from two billion at the time of the WMPG report to over six billion today. Wireless sensor chips in production could be in the tens of millions […]