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Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

W3C has released its “Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0″, a framework for mobile software developers. The Best Practices’s complete document can be found on this link, while the summary is on this link.

The abstract:

This document specifies Best Practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices. The principal objective is to improve the user experience of the Web when accessed from such devices.

The recommendations refer to delivered content and not to the processes by which it is created, nor to the devices or user agents to which it is delivered.

It is primarily directed at creators, maintainers and operators of Web sites. Readers of this document are expected to be familiar with the creation of Web sites, and to have a general familiarity with the technologies involved, such as Web servers and HTTP. Readers are not expected to have a background in mobile-specific technologies.

The Best Practices was developed with representatives from some of the giants of the telecommunications industry, including America Online, AT&T, ERICSSON, France Telecom, Google, Nokia, Opera Software, Vodafone, Volantis Systems, and others.

Beckham bends it with Motorola

Motorola announced a three-year collaboration with English football star David Beckham. The English national team captain will work with the mobile phone company trough advertising appearances and retail promotions, focusing on Motorola’s network of stores and distributors throughout Asia.

The deal also requires Beckham to support Motorola’s initiatives, such as its support for AIDS prevention in Africa, by endorsing MOTORED mobile phone created specifically for the purpose.

Motorola handset owners can start downloading content, such as screensavers and mobile videos that feature the self-proclaimed metrosexual.

Nokia embraces the internet; goes open-source

By porting the Linux-based Apache web server to its Symbian Series 60 platform, Nokia gradually reaches beyond the walled gardens of telcos, realizing that more and more people are accessing the internet through their cell phones.

According to The Register (through Wireless Watch):

For its next generation high end devices – which the company now refuses to refer to any longer as “cellphones” – to compete with notebooks and become the norm for business access, they needed to offer an internet experience as unfettered, simple and user friendly as that of the PC. This meant adopting, or improving on, the key aspects of that platform – simple user interface, choice of radio links to support the fastest and cheapest connections, IP support, unrestricted web access, and increasingly, open source software options.

Refusing to call its next generation of handsets “cell phones,” the mobile giant recently opened its Symbian 60 technology to developers and in effect set in place a “de facto standard” software platform for mobiles.

The S60 Webkit is available to anyone with an open source BSD license, a highly permissive license commonly used by free software developers worldwide. The kit comes with the sourcecode of the browser engine co-developed with Apple and based on that company’s Safari browser. At this point it does not contain other Series 60 components such as the user interface, allowing developers to create differentiated browser interfaces, although further release of S60 elements is widely expected.

Receive World Cup updates on your mobile

There is no escaping the World Cup now. Resco joins in the excitement with World Cup Mobile 2006, a nifty program that brings the latest news, scores and commentaries to S60 devices.

Allaboutsymbian reports:

If you think of the application as a custom web/wap/xml page browser you would be pretty close to the truth. With five main categories of news and reporting, the application will keep you up to date (on a daily basis) throughout the World Cup. As well as overall tournament news, you have access to the full schedule and results of the matches, and the all important statistics (after all, after mobile phones, the anoraks of this world need to know their football numbers). There’s also a comprehensive history section about previous exploits of your favourite teams - enough to get you through a commentary session and look as clever as the BBC!

World Cup Mobile 2006 runs on the following models: