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Flash on the iPhone Doesn’t Work — Deal with it!

Posted on: Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 in: Xavier Facon

I’ve had it up to here with listening to everyone complaining about how the iPhone doesn’t support Adobe’s Flash.  People are either hyping the future of Flash or proposing outlandish solutions that don’t really work.  The fact is, there are substantial reasons why Adobe Flash doesn’t get embedded into many phones.
Instead of demanding that Adobe [...]

Crisp Wireless Customers Win the Webby Awards for Mobile

Posted on: Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 in: Xavier Facon

It is that time of year again and once again, we are proud to see that multiple customers of Crisp Wireless have won the Webby Award for mobile!  This time it is Discovery Channel (http://m.discovery.com), PetFinder (http://m.petfinder.com), and NPR (National Public Radio), ( http://m.npr.org/i)  which won Webby Awards for their mobile sites in Entertainment, Listings, [...]

The Bright Future of Rich Mobile Web Applications

Posted on: Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 in: Xavier Facon

The increased investment in iPhone applications by media and entertainment companies last year helped the mobile industry move forward quickly.  The innovations that came with the more than 30,000 iPhone and iPod apps have most definitely attracted many new mobile content consumers.  So what’s next?  Are we about to see Apple dominate the mobile content [...]

Hunker Down or Double Down? Making a case for mobile advertising in a down economy.

Posted on: Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 in: Xavier Facon

With all the doom and gloom news about the economy, many are predicting that 2009 will NOT be a good year for mobile advertising.  However, in a recent article in MediaPost’s Online Media Daily, I make the case that it is not time to hunker down — but rather double down when it comes to [...]

Obama vs McCain: How Politicians are Missing the Boat on Mobile

Posted on: Friday, October 17th, 2008 in: Xavier Facon

Given that close to 200 million Americans have mobile phones, everyone wants the youth vote, and we live in a viral 24 hour news cycle, some believe that mobile can change the landscape of the political election. So you would think that the two major party candidates would use their swollen advertising budgets to leverage [...]