Posted by tnkgrl | Posted in Featured, Security | Posted on 30-01-2009
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Dennis Bournique of WAP review has written an excellent article telling the world why the W3C’s proposed handling of HTTPS by proxy servers is a REALLY BAD IDEA.
Over at About Mobility, C.Enrique Oritz has posted his HELL YEAH article, stating how BAD AN IDEA it is to even call it HTTPS. The problem is that the W3C HTTPS standard will allow traffic from your mobile browser to your (encrypted server) Bank to be decrypted by proxied transcoders, like Opera. The user thinks his data is secure, because it’s HTTPS, when infact, the return traffic from the Opera proxy server is not encrypted.
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I found this facinating slide presentation from Create with Context. They took a bunch of iPhone users of different levels of technology experience, and had them navigate the iPhone UI. The report brings up some great usability questions, but mostly shows why navigating the iPhone is easy for most people.
Posted by tnkgrl | Posted in Blogosphere, Culture, Featured | Posted on 29-01-2009
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I read an interesting article by ARJW, calling for a redefinition of the term Smartphone.
And then something happened, other devices started getting the same abilities that these vaunted smartphones did. No longer were high megapixel cameras, or even Wi-Fi and 3rd party applications the providence of smartphones. These “lower” devices, usually running some proprietory operating system, started doing the same things that smartphones do, and at a lower price.
So what’s the incentive to continue to call these devices smartphone, or even to pay that much for a device that’s not really much better than something “not as smart?”
I couldn’t agree more! There was a time when a “dumbphone” was defined by lack of third party apps. The extra frosting was MegaPixel’ed cameras, WiFi, GPS, maybe a touch screen. Now a days, it’s tough to find any phones without at least one of these features.
