What matters is mobile browsers…and that’s true enough…but the point is to illustrate just how far browsers, and related tools, still have to go to bring HTML5 to the masses. Facebook itself is certainly not abandoning HTML5 entirely, "Facebook’s mobile site will still run on HTML5. It will also continue pushing for better HTML5 standards from mobile browser vendors in hopes it can one day do more with the protocol." This is just one example of how HTML5 is not yet the mobile panacea so many seem to expect – at least, not yet. We’ll see what happens in 2014 MORE >>

link] December 3-5, 2012 International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM), 10th, Bali, Indonesia. link] December 6-7, 2012 mLearning : Making Learning Mobile, offered by the eLearning Guild, online. link] December 12-14, 2012 Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MOBIQUITOUS): Computing, Networking and Services, 9 th , annual, Beijing, China. link] January 7-8, 2013 Mobile Device Security Summit: The Growing and Constantly Changing Challenge, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, California, USA. Clayton R. You can contact him at: crwr77 [@] gmail.com. MORE >>

Gartner study – by 2013 80% of orgs will support working use of tablets by 2014 90% will support corp apps on personal devices More buzz about “the cloud” We’re becoming “device agnostic” – can start a learning program on one device, then continue it on another. From an ASTD study: Despite the ubiquity of mobile devices, most companies aren’t delivering yet… Learning on-demand is starting to have meaning with mobile devices. Here we are in sunny San Jose, kicking off ASTD’s TechKnowledge 2011. These are my live-blogged notes from the opening session. to be creative?) a Fad? MORE >>

But our loyalties towards mobile learning cannot be questioned! For all you mobile lovers, dig in to know about the top trends in mobile, cool iPhone Apps for educational purposes and studying aboard, and tons of iOS Apps for freelancers. Mobile Trends: The Future Guide To The Best Predictions For 2011. Find the most interesting and relevant trends, anticipations and predictions about the mobile world and how these will affect any web site publisher work in 2011. HTML5 Will Be Done in 2014, What Comes Next? The 2010 Mobile Year in Review. MORE >>

2010 FCC report found that by 2014, Cisco forecasts 47 times growth in mobile data traffic and Coda predicts 35 times more mobile data traffic. How many times during a given week do you ignore a phone call coming into your mobile device even though you know exactly who is calling with your fancy photo-generated call display. Some refer to them as the real ‘silent generation’ because they don’t call it a cell phone, they call it a mobile device. That’s not to say that revenues have decreased, nor will they. How you ask? efforts) and lest us not forget texting. MORE >>