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IEEE Spectrum Magazine explores the development, applications and implications of new technologies.

NEW YORK, NY / VANCOUVER, BC– January, 2011 – IEEE Spectrum announced today that they have chosen Mobify, the leading mobile web platform, to take IEEE Spectrum Magazine mobile.

The evolution of wireless technology has made communicating through mobile devices part of today’s society. Whether it’s emailing, posting links on social media, or reading the latest article, mobile browsing is predicted to dominate desktop browsing by 2014. With a technologically savvy audience, IEEE Spectrum wanted to provide their mobile users with the same experience and content found on their main site. By mobifying their site, IEEE Spectrum hopes to increase its unique visitors and provide IEEE members with an enhanced mobile experience.

“It’s important for Spectrum to be available to its audience anytime, anywhere,” said Harry Goldstein, Editorial Director, Digital, of IEEE Spectrum. “We wanted to provide a seamless mobile experience for our audience and have our content available to them when they want it.”

“IEEE Spectrum is an engineering magazine with rich history,” said Igor Faletski, CEO of Mobify. “We’re thrilled to be selected as the mobile platform of choice by one of the leading technology resources in the world.”

As seekers of cutting-edge technology, IEEE Spectrum Magazine was able to make their mobile site using the Mobify Studio platform.

About IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum magazine is the flagship publication of the IEEE, the world’s largest professional technology association. It is a magazine and Web site for technology innovators, business leaders, and the intellectually curious. Spectrum explores future technology trends and the impact of those trends on society and business.

IEEE Spectrum magazine is read by over 385,000 technology professionals and senior executives worldwide in the high technology sectors of industry, government, and academia. Subscribers include engineering managers and corporate and financial executives. Deans and provosts at every major engineering university and college throughout the world are also Spectrum readers.

About MOBIFY
Mobify was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Its solutions optimize web sites for mobile and tablet devices. Mobify’s customers include global leaders in e-commerce, online publishing, and digital advertising. By using Mobify’s mobile web platform, these companies have achieved significant growth in mobile traffic and revenue. Learn more at www.mobify.me

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Jan 18, 2011

Hello everyone and welcome to a new edition of Mobify Weekly—read the hottest stories from the world of mobile web.


Mobile Economics Will Tred Toward Web Economics

Business models that work best on the web will ultimately work best in mobile. For example, disappointing magazine sales on iPad are not surprising, as people are unwilling to purchase the same content on the web.

The Movement from Apps to Mobile Web Sites
The hospitality industry may be starting to shift away from apps to mobile web to help cope with device fragmentation and SEO requirements.

The Great Rise of the Mobile Web
A handy infographic with some interesting stats. For example, there are over 5 billion mobile web users in the world, with 3.81% of the world’s total web usage being mobile. And it’s only getting bigger!

Mobile Development: 5 Tips for Small Businesses
Some useful tips for small businesses to expand their web presence onto mobile. Not being tech-savvy is no longer an excuse for not having a mobile site!

2010: Breakout Year for E-Commerce
7.3 million mobile phone users shop via mobile monthly, 3.9 million weekly, and 2.1 million daily!

That’s it for this week folks! Have a terrific weekend and we’ll see you all next week!

Here’s Andrew Mason, CEO of Groupon:

I think that we’ll continue to see more companies <…> who put us [Groupon] to shame a couple years from now with their rate of growth.

According to Andrew, Groupon grew so quickly thanks to its social features. What’s going to drive web hyper-growth in 2012? The mobile web – but it’s not ready yet.

Consider Instagr.am, the darling of early adopters this winter. It’s up to a million users, growing through Twitter and app downloads – which is awesome. However, many are lost at every stage of the acquisition funnel – clicking the AppStore link, installing, learning the native UI. What if you could start taking photos & applying filters via the mobile browser – right after clicking that very first instagr.am link? They’d probably be at 5-10 million users by now. Today, the Instagr.am website isn’t even mobile-friendly.

Universal JavaScript APIs for mobile cameras are on their way (you can use PhoneGap in the meantime) – but not today, limiting growth opportunities for mobile-centric web services.

Another good example is online advertising (search or display), where every mobile click leading to a desktop page will convert at a disastrously low rate. This inhibits a lot of mobile innovation in pay-for-performance advertising – especially in e-commerce.

Mobile web has to get more mobile in order to facilitate business models of tomorrow. Let’s do our part to make it happen!

Hello everyone and welcome to a brand new edition of Mobify Weekly where we share the best stories that we’ve run across.

Google Beats Facebook On Mobile Web, Says Opera According to Opera, Facebook was dominating the mobile web traffic in 2009 but was overtaken by Google during this year.

New, Improved and Easier to Use Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo Among many improvements in speed and usability, new additions to Firefox Mobile include a new add-ons interface, better syncing and more hardware-accelerated WebGL support.

360 Panorama: iPhone 4 surfs the Web with gyroscopic support in Mobile Safari Interesting concept website allows visitors to viewa 360 photo of a public park just by gliding their iPhone through the air.

Snow reveals airlines’ poor mobile strategies Interesting article on how (some) airlines are using mobile to inform their customers about flight conditions, delays and provide them with up-to-date travel information.

That’s it for this week, folks! Wishing you Happy Holidays from all of us at Mobify! Have a good one!