Imagine a potential customer viewing your website from an iPhone or iPad - is your logo displayed clearly? Is it readable or too small to understand at a quick glance? A refined logo on the mobile web will help your brand resonate with people browsing on the go.

Microsoft has just unveiled their new phone operating system and phone manufacturer partners this week as they prepare the mobile arena once again. Nine different phones across US carriers are due to ship next month giving customers another choice of powerful smartphones. The outcome will likely result with smartphones in more hands. Microsoft’s strategy stands to greatly benefit developers and users with application and game development.

The recent "Net Neutrality" agreement proposed by Google and Verizon has brought this issue back to the forefront. It is the topic at the top of the agenda for "Telco’s" Executives, Tech journalist and 'Free Speech' advocates. What makes this debate so important is that it will decide the future of the Internet. Since its inception the Internet has operated under a common agreement of "Network Neutrality", whose core principal "advocates no restrictions by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and governments on content, sites, platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and no restrictions on the modes of communication allowed". However, provisions on the Verizon-Google deal and other previous legislative proposals have skewed people’s understanding of how the ‘Open-Internet’ works and why it’s important for it to retain the current principles that have allowed the web to flourish. ISPs are lobbying strongly to remove, or at the very least redefine Net Neutrality in their favour. There are many facts to surrounding this issue but there are five we cannot afford to lose track of.

Salon owner Mitch Derosa and his stylists at high-end Mitchell John Salon now have a sleek, sophisticated and mobile-friendly web presence that meets the needs of their busy corporate clientele.

The mobile web is one of the fastest growing mediums for consuming online content today. To reach this quickly growing demographic and create successful brand impressions, it’s critical that marketers develop mobile brand experiences as an integral part of a company’s marketing. Read on to learn how your brand’s mobile presence can be most successful.

Every day more and more web traffic originates from mobile devices. The majority of that growth comes from touch-enabled devices like the iPhone and Android. A great deal of the excitement over these two platforms is largely due to the advanced capabilities they deliver through applications and services. Features like touch, tilt, and locations services have made them the hottest platforms around. Most of these technologies, however, are also available through web browsers on theses devices. Incorporating some of these functionalities into your websites will enhance user experience when viewing it on a mobile browser and portray your company as forward-thinking.

Now that our digital devices prominently feature touch interfaces, the ways of interacting with the devices and the content they present have begun to displace the methods of interaction made popular via traditional methods of human-computer interaction, most notably the monitor-mouse-keyboard setup. The interactions that went from physical to digital in the late 70s and early 80s are now merging – tapping, flicking and turning our digital devices allows us to physically interact with our digital content in ways not possible before now. Furthermore, these new levels and forms of interaction allow (and perhaps require) us to re-imagine the way we produce and deliver digital content.

We gave some tips for designing websites that are smartphone friendly in a recent blog post. While smartphone browsers have gained in features and functionality, there are still a few things to consider when developing sites with mobile devices in mind.