The Iphone now has some serious rivals as its proprietary Apple software platform is now up against the Google Android and the Symbian systems favoured by the likes of Nokia.

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Most people with websites will soon be looking to add a mobile site to their portfolios before long and these look very different to the normal sites being text related but a far cry from the old WAP system.

Expect to see mobile web use overtake non -mobile browsers by 2015

I’m playing at the moment and testing the water to see how useful it will be to my business.  We shall see.

Well in the US, Amazon have a product called the Kindle which is a hand held reader and its success has been phenomenal with  sales accounting for 10% of Amazons profits which is significant considering it’s one of their more expensive products ranging from $299 – $489.  All this and it’s not even available in Europe yet!

There are around 300,00 Kindle books  available and some of these sell for $9.99 which frankly is way too expensive and this will inevitably come down as competition hots up. Talking of which the main competition is the Sony Ereader and the mighty Iphone.  The Iphone being even more phenomenal than the Kindle is the reason why the future of reading is Ebooks.

Their are free reader apps available for the Iphone which mean you can now read books, magazines and even newspapers. Imagine sat on the tube (London Underground) in the daily rush hour reading your Daily whatever whilst the guy next to you struggles to turn his page without poking someone elses eye out.

Below is a video on the Iphone Ereader app – Stanza (keep the volume low this guy has a really sharp voice!)

All this is still in its infancy as you have a variety of formats which of course are incompatible – it’s VHS and Betamax all over again. But this will of course get resolved and we will have a standard format similar to PDF (which can’t be read on handreaders at present).  I should add that the videos do no favours to  the quality of resolution you can expect from these readers, particularly the Kindle.

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How Google ranks ads, sets its prices, decides upon the quality of your ad has always been seen as secretive and vague. Well this video from Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist, explains it all. Mind you, you may well have to view it a few times to understand it – I certainly had to – but it is all there in the open for all to see.

If you click the arrow in the bottom right corner you will get access to more adwords videos

Loading my windows software proved painless thanks to a brilliant piece of software called VM Fusion.  I did not expect this to work as well as it did but I was delightfully suprised – everything worked just like a normal PC only better.

However I soon weaned myself off windows and now uses the mac system for everything. No more faffing around with drivers,or  configuring this that and the other. No virus issues either just programs that install easily and work.

So dont be afraid to make the change – get a mac you’ll never go back

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