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The Mobile Web: Consider the User

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Thirty-eight percent of American mobile phone users -- 120 million people -- access the web via their mobile device; fewer than 30 million are iPhones or Android phones. Mobile Access 2010 Pew Internet and American Life Project). In reality, when planning a mobile web strategy, you should consider the following factors: I.

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My iPhone 3G

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I said: I will not be buying an iPhone until they sell an unlocked version that doesn’t need to be hacked to use third party applications. The phone interface is great, visual voicemail rocks, reading email is really good, and surfing the web is decent – way better than on a blackberry. by Apple, which is a mixed bag.

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A Field Guide to Mobile Payments

Tech Soup

In Africa, however, NFC and other mobile payment systems have been quite popular as they don't require bank accounts or Internet access. Here are a few tools we recommend: PayAnywhere (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a mobile and web-based payment processing service that lets you accept donations from just about anywhere.

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Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition

Tech Soup

Once you've downloaded the app, all this information is accessible regardless of whether you have phone service or internet access during an emergency. The FEMA app is available in the Android marketplace , with iPhone and Blackberry versions coming soon. Shelter information is updated every 30 minutes.

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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Are Nonprofits Wasting Time Developing Mobile Apps?

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According to a June 2010 Nielsen survey of 4,200 people who had downloaded an application in the past 30 days, games were the most downloaded and followed by music, social networking, news and weather, maps, search, video and movies. Mobile Social Networking Technology Trends Web 2.0 I disagree that apps are the answer.

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7 Ways for Nonprofits to Use Mobile Phones to Rake in Cash Monies

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These methods are: Text message donations Text to voice donations Text message warmers Mobile Web site donations App sales In-app sales Sponsored apps. Mobile Web site donations. You can ask for donations using exactly the same system that you ask for money on your web site: via a big red “Donate Now” button. Charge $1.99

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