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The Rise of Mobile

NetWits

iPhones, Thunderbolts, Blackberrys, etc are becoming commonplace in a lot of ways. AMD is predicting that, by 2015, 50% of the world will have an Internet connection and Phone Count predicts that by 2012 there will be as many connected mobile phones as there are people in the world. Pew Internet Report ]. Nielsen Study ].

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Nonprofit Tech 2.0 iPhone App :: Version 2.0!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

How we look back and chuckle at our dial-up Internet days is similar I think to how we’ll look back at these first generation do-it-yourself iPhone Apps. 4) Android has surpassed iPhone in sales, and Blackberry has a larger marketshare than iPhones, but as this fun and colorful iconographic demonstrates, 99.4%

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Mobile Web vs. Mobile Apps: Taking Your Content on the Road

NetWits

Some advantages to mobile apps are that you have full control over the user interface; your app can use all of the mobile device capabilities; performance is dependent on the mobile device rather than internet service; and a well-developed app can raise awareness (and sometimes revenue) for your organization. So, what do you think?

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RIM: We don’t need no steenkin’ opt out

Judi Sohn

Back when I had a Blackberry, I was happy to get emails from them about new features, downloads, etc. Now I have an iPhone so I don’t want to get emails about Blackberries anymore. I hit “Next” and get an error because "Is this your first BlackBerry smartphone?” Research in Motion , I’m calling you out for not playing fair.

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Why the enterprise cloud will kill Mobile Device Management once and for all

The Next Web

The most disruptive technologies—PCs, internet, cell phones, and tablets—create problems and opportunities that never existed. The creation of the Internet created a challenge: how do people find information? After a ground-breaking invention like the Internet, the first wave of supporting innovation tends to rely on imitation.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Browsers

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The browser wars between proprietary and open source browsers have changed in some ways from the days that it was simply Internet Explorer vs. Netscape. On the proprietary side, still, sits Internet Explorer, now about ready to pop with version 9. Opera mobile is in the lead, with about 21%, followed by iPhone, Nokia, and Blackberry.

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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit.