Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap

W3C Interest Group Note 08 December 2009


Abstract:

This document's purpose is to understand the current challenges of deploying development-oriented services on mobile phones, evaluate existing technologies, and identify the most promising directions to lower the barriers of developing, deploying and accessing services on mobile phones and thereby creating an enabling environment for more social-oriented services to appear.

This document is divided into two major parts. The first part presents the major challenges today for both developing and accessing mobile services, potential ways to bridge them with existing tools, technologies and infrastructure, and potential research directions to follow to provide a more comprehensive resolution or solution. The second part focuses on presenting the major technologies and the major options existing today to deploy content and applications on mobile phones. For each of these technologies, the document presents a short analysis of the technology's potential and the requirements in terms of infrastructure, devices, targeted end-users, and costs associated with implementation and delivery.

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Let's Plant Green's - Environmental Quotes

Just wanted to share some of the quotes by famous and great people who were telling us why a plant need to be green. Here are few of them: 

• "When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. " - David Orr

• "If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either." - oseph Woodkrutch

• "Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge." - Thomas Edison

• "The human race will be the cancer of the planet."  - Julian Huxley

• "Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back."  - Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health, 1959

• "Those who love and free nature are never alone." - Rachel Carson

• "We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures." - The Dalai Lama

• "We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves."- Arnold Toynbee

As we all know that man is a complex being who can make the deserts bloom and can kill the lakes then why living the earth behind. Let's be wise and save our mother.

Let us once more listen to what Michael Jackson was telling us to think about.

New for Developers at the Google I/O Keynote 2012

On Wednesday morning, Google kicked off its annual I/O developers conference with a keynote introducing several new or updated projects. First up, Google took the wraps off the next version of Android, dubbed 4.1 or "Jelly Bean." The update will start rolling out in July.

Second, Google also announced some significant updates to Google Play. The app store will now encrypt apps before they arrive on a device. In addition, developers will be able to push out smaller update files that only update the part of the app that has changed instead of requiring users to re-download the entire app.

As expected, Google unveiled a new tablet called the Nexus 7 developed cooperatively with Asus. Google also took the wraps off Nexus Q, a new TV box, similar to Apple TV and Roku, that delivers Google Play content to TVs.

The company also showed off a new Google Glass prototype that will become available early next year.

All 6,000 attendees at the development conference received a Galaxy Nexus phone, a Nexus 7 tablet and a Nexus Q.

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