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	<description>a collection of scattered thoughts on mobile technology and related topics…</description>
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		<title>5 Interesting Features for Retail/Hospitality Mobile Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every mobile application targeting a retail or hospitality use case seems to have the obvious features: finding business locations, contact information, product/offering information, and in some cases user reviews/ratings of what&#8217;s being offered.  These apps amount in many ways to a repackaging of the merchant&#8217;s existing website as a native application for the iPhone or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/12/14/5-interesting-features-for-retailhospitality-mobile-apps/</link>
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		<title>GVSU&#8217;s fabulous skyline is getting even better!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I recently returned to my roots here at GVSU, I not only had to an assimilate an amazingly altered campus from what I left behind back in 1988, but I also had to get accustomed to the fact that GVSU now sprawls across the entire W. Michigan area.  In addition to the main [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/11/13/gvsus-fabulous-skyline-is-getting-even-better/</link>
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		<title>Must follow twitter lists for you mobile junkies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new &#8220;list&#8221; feature on Twitter is fantastic!  Basically, twitter follow lists lets you the user organize your twitter friends into meaningful lists to share with others.  This morning I started organizing various lists relating to mobile technology that I thought would be of interest to others.  So far, I&#8217;ve put together the following lists:

Mobile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/11/04/must-follow-twitter-lists-for-you-mobile-junkies/</link>
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		<title>Do mobile app stores have a future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I came across this interesting and well-written article on the current state of affairs with regard to mobile app stores.   I think the author&#8217;s forward looking comments are reasonable if you limit your outlook to a year or two,  but there are a couple of things to consider with regard to app stores [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/10/30/do-mobile-app-stores-have-a-future/</link>
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		<title>Mobile testing madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a couple of interesting videos this week that are worth taking a look at.  The first one is about testing mobile application. So if you have an app that targets a multiplicity of handsets, all with different form factors, technical specs, and service providers, how can you go about testing your apps? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/10/16/mobile-testing-madness/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s raining Androids!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today its not uncommon to run into people who think of human-like robots when you start talking about Android, rather than Google&#8217;s cool new mobile phone platform. This is likely to change dramatically between now and Christmas, at least here in the USA.   In the past month a number of manufacturers and carriers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/10/12/its-raining-androids/</link>
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		<title>My screencasting experiment&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This semester I&#8217;m teaching an undergraduate CS course that has a weekly two hour lab session.   Instead of going the traditional route of making up 4-5 programming assignments  and assigning them over the course of the semester, I wanted to try and create a set of weekly labs that encourage the students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/10/05/my-screencasting-experiment/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Applications &amp; Services Lab Launched at GVSU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mobile Applications and Services Lab recently held its first research group meeting at GVSU&#8217;s School of Computing and Information Systems.  In addition to myself, the group currently consists of five CIS graduate students and two undergraduate researchers.  A variety of topics were discussed at the initial meeting, and perhaps most importantly we discussed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/09/24/mobile-applications-services-lab-launched-at-gvsu/</link>
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		<title>My desert island iPhone apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Rick Broida over at CNET recently posted his top 5 desert island iPhone apps.  What follows is my choice of five apps were I stranded on a desert island.
1. Facebook: What better way to keep up with your friends around the rest of the world?    This is a fairly functional facebook client.  My only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/09/09/my-desert-island-iphone-apps/</link>
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		<title>7 future proof assumptions for mobile app developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was speaking with a person who is managing a fairly sizable team of developers that is creating a mobile application.  They anticipate seeing the application launched within the USA in around six months or so. The person explained to me that their biggest challenge to-date is coding for and testing various Java ME versions of their client app which must run on hundreds of different handsets, all with different form factors, and on a variety of different operator networks.  When I asked why they were spending so much energy on their Java ME client the response was that their customer required the client to run on 80% of the handsets in use by consumers today.

If I were in their position, I'd spend more time and energy convincing my customer of the reality that is upon us and leave the Java ME slogging to my competitors.   The mobile application landscape has and will continue to change rapidly in the months ahead, thanks to strong growth and innovation in the smartphone category.   A recently published Gartner study reports that in 2Q09 the overall handset market declined 6.1% while the smartphone category increased by 27%.  If you are currently developing a mobile application or soon will be, here are 7 future proof assumptions that I think you can safely make.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.themobilemontage.com/2009/09/01/7-future-proof-assumptions-for-mobile-app-developers/</link>
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