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Mobile apps are like your neighborhood produce store. You walk inside the doors looking for specific items. They also typically let users tap into their phone's full potential. For example, a native app might integrate with a phone's camera, voice recorder, contacts or other features. And for shoppers looking for a richer, more advanced interface, applications typically win out over the mobile web because they are designed specifically for that handset's hardware and operating system. Overall, native apps offer a tailored shopping experience that's well delivered but limited. The mobile web on the other hand is a like a huge shopping mall with seemingly limitless stores and tons of options all under one giant roof. It's not as constricted or fragmented as shopping on disparate mobile apps but the experience isn't as tailored as the specialty store. Unlike device-specific native apps though, the mobile web has enormous flexibility and, usually, much larger reach. Customers don't need to download robust programs from app stores to their handset in order to begin shopping. Instead, all they have to do is type in a web address in their mobile browser to start spending their digital dollars. Much of the time mobile sites serve as stripped-down versions of regular websites and serve a utilitarian purpose: selling goods and services.

"Sencha Touch, the first HTML5 mobile JavaScript framework that allows you to develop mobile web apps that look and feel native on iPhone and Android touchscreen devices, has just hit the big 1.0. And best of all, it's completely free to use."

"A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design. Alpha Release Notes"

The Palm Pre smart phone and the company's much-anticipated new operating system-called webOS-are among the most buzzed-about products to come out of CES this year. Despite staging its splashy launch, Palm has been a bit secretive with the device-reminding us of a certain company in Cupertino. But PC World had the chance to sit down with the company and delve into the OS everyone is talking about. And though we had very limited time with the Pre and WebOS, we can tell you what we liked-and what we didn't.

Helping detect and better serve mobile browsers It's easy to create a mobile website and .mobi domain names are affordable but to make the most of mobile you first need to be able to detect mobile devices! Only then can you start to best serve the needs of your mobile visitors! This PHP function lets you choose how to manage your mobile visitors, they can be redirected to a page built for mobiles or you can use it to decide what to show them.

Rumors of an iPhone-style Microsoft phone running on Nvidia silicon add heft, in part, to what Nvidia has been talking about since early this year.

There is a world of information that we can't immediately see in the streets we walk and drive in, and in the buildings in which we work, play and live. The great potential of the mobile web - whether it is delivered by smart phone, automobile navigation system, or other device - is to reveal this hidden world to us, by adding geospatial and timing data to the user experience. In this way, the mobile web is poised to become the delivery mechanism for a new generation of location-aware applications.

For Google, mobile is critical to its information-centric business - which is why it has big ambitions for getting the OS on as many devices as it can.

The Apple iPhone is easily the most publicized new mobile device in recent memory. But despite all the discussion about the product, there's relatively little hard information available to the public on its impact. How is it being used? What effect is it having on customers and on the technology industry?

Adobe Photoshop CS3 public beta review, CS3 tutorials, tips and feature set

dotMobi published a Mobile Web Guide in HTML. This guide provides its readers with best practices, methods and other material on how to publish for mobile devices.

I've seen many prototypes of mobile UIs that can't be built and if they could, would not be legible on a small LCD screen. So I thought I'd provide some pointers that might help those of you that is starting out. Often, people starting out prototyping mobile phone UIs get the size of the display right but the size of the font wrong. They try to stuff way too much in there, and they use a font size and font family that is not available in the phone.

More and more mobile phones users are browsing and searching the internet on their handsets. The UK, for example, has neared saturation for mobile phones and many handset browsers can now handle sites designed for viewing on computers. Indeed 20% of UK mobile phone users now use the internet on their mobile devices. In this article, Abid Warsi of Webcredible defines seven guidelines that web designers should bear in mind when considering how their sites will look and work on mobiles.

Little Springs Design has started a wiki that collects mobile ui design resources, patterns, devices, and so forth.

Usability and page design for websites on mobile phones is very different to that of PCs. These essential mobile usability guidelines will help ensure your site works well for mobile visitors.

"A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices."

iYellow pages is free mobile Yellow Pages application, which helps you to search local and worldwide business contact information right from your mobile phone, while you are on the go. Download and use iMobile's free applications on your mobile device and explore businesses to find addresses, phone numbers - all right in the palm of your hand.

FlexPoint Marketing is a project-based firm that covers modern tools and methods for product design and development.

CONSIDER THIS SERIOUSLY, majority of the app users hold the app (and not the device or network or the OS), rather the maker of the app, responsible for all issues they experience while using the app, irrespective of the actual cause.