This is my weekly mobile wrap up around “thinking”. You can find my weekly mobile wrap up around “trends” in a separate post. You can also check out my ongoing mobile news & event updates from my Mobile page.

• Mobile Web or Mobile Apps?

Lots of people ask: should we build mobile web or mobile applications? It’s a common questions for everyone who is thinking of going mobile direction more. I found this article very informative.

It lists out the pros and cons between mobile web and mobile apps.

• N2Y4 Mobile Challenge, Money for Mobile Developers Aiming to Change the World

The nonprofit N2Y4 Mobile Challenge from Netsquared is accepting project submissions from mobile developers through this month and will provide seed funding to a handful of lucky winners. The submissions so far are quite interesting. You can see some early submissions.

• Can you build one mobile app once and deploy it to multiple mobile platforms?

This used to be my question. Apparently, some people are working on it. Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone.

• Follow the Mobile User, Thoughts from Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products.

Focus on the mobile user, and all else will follow. Simpler data, better browsers, and a smoother experience.

• Finally, One Mobile Related Video for You to Enjoy: TED - David Pogue: “Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone”
  

You can also check out the other two mobile videos that I recently posted about ( Nokia Morph and MIT Sixsense Technology)

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This is my weekly mobile wrap up around trends. You can find my weekly mobile wrap up around “thinking” in a separate post. You can also check out my ongoing mobile news & event updates from my Mobile page.

• Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), which recently released its top 10 list of mobile entertainment trends for 2009:

1. The ‘iPhone effect:’ Mobile applications have emerged as a new content category and the mobile internet will finally come of age.
2. Greater value and transparency for consumers will help sustain demand in 2009.
3. There will be some delay in the proliferation of mobile advertising.
4. Telcos will begin to act as enablers for the entertainment industry with services such as billing, authentication and zero-tariff data driving adoption.
5. Services that operate at a multi-platform level are on their way to becoming dominant.
6. There will be a rise in ringback tones.
7. Social networking will become an important driver of mobile entertainment consumption.
8. Mobile video will really take off in 2009.
9. Emerging world economies will become an increasingly important driver for global mobile entertainment.
10. The proliferation of touch-screen devices will continue to drive discoverability and content usage.

• Mobile Banking Users to Exceed 150M Worldwide by 2011:

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