Fasten your seatbelts. Passengers aboard JetBlue can now expect to get in-flight email service. Starting next week, JetBlue will be the first US airline to provide in-flight internet access. It will begin offering free email access on one of its airplanes - the BetaBlue, which is equipped with wireless Internet antennae in the ceiling and a computer server that relays signals to mobile telephone towers on the ground. Passengers will be able to connect to Yahoo Mail and instant messaging services via wireless internet connections on laptops or with wi-fi enabled BlackBerry handheld devices. Fees are currently undisclosed.
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Labels: internet, iPhone, mobile web, wap, Wireless

You can now place ads on your mobile websites using Google AdSense. It’s an internet marketer’s dream. AdSense has traditionally been used on the desktop platform only allowing site owners to display related advertising on their site using a PPC model. The mobile edition is a limited availability beta release. It’s no secret that the mobile market is hot with increasingly more people owning cell phones and an ever growing number of mobile websites being created to support this sales opportunity. AdSense is paving the way for the monetization of this new marketing channel by covering the bases More»

Labels: design, Mobile, usability 2.0, user experience, wap

Being able to access your content seamlessly between your desktop, mobile device, and TV is way cool. The idea of creating once and publishing everywhere has long been talked about and is more so a reality today - thanks to media specific stylesheets and tools that mobify your site by stripping the markup for mobile usability. It lends itself to the notion of universal and contextual design - that is, designs that are relevant to the context of use or access point. Access a site from your PC and you are served up the desktop version; access the same site More»

Labels: mobile web, three screen experience, wap