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Contractors choose lifestyle over money

News A recent study by the Association of Technology Staffing Companies found strong demand for contractors skilled in Bluetooth and dot-mobi tools that allow websites to be tailored for mobile devices, as well as in the middleware technologies that...

Tags: contractors, giant group, tax, google

[20 Nov 2007]

The Sun rises on dot-mobi

News Red top newspaper The Sun has launched a version of its site on the dot-mobi domain. According to dotMobi, which runs the domain, The Sun is the first national newspaper to launch a version of its site optimised for downloading on a mobile device...

Tags: mobile, dot-mobi, the sun

[24 Oct 2007]

iPhone to fuel contractor shortage

News There is also strong demand from recruiters for developers skilled in Bluetooth and the dot-mobi tools that allow websites to be tailored for mobile devices. Ann Swain, Atsco CEO, said this is the fastest year-on-year rise in pay rates for...

Tags: techies, atsco, iphone

[28 Aug 2007]

CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam

News This was the only truly innovative proposal for a new sponsored top-level domain (TLD) - dot-mail - but it has made no progress while other proposed TLDs have - for example dot-jobs and dot-mobi. The dot-mail TLD was meant to be 'the bus lane for...

Tags: blackberry, iplayer, spam, vista

[24 Jul 2007]

dotMobi hands out free domains for cities

News London is one of 650 cities around the world that has been offered a free dot-mobi domain by the organisation behind the mobile-friendly domain name extension drive. Now there's been enough awareness of dot-mobi that we think people will know what...

Tags: dot-mobi, dotmobi

[11 Jul 2007]

Barclays rings in dot-mobi banking

News Customers can access Barclays' online banking systems via a 'Barclays.mobi' link on a web-enabled mobile. High street bank Barclays has launched a mobile phone banking service to extend the reach of its online banking facility.

Tags: banking, barclays, dot-mobi

[23 May 2007]

New domain names on the horizon for 2008

News The first introduction of new gTLDs came in 2000, with the most recent gTLDs emerging in 2005/06 - including dot-mobi and dot-jobs. The most common gTLD is dot-com, which can be found attached to 62 million domain names.

Tags: internet, domain name, icann

[14 May 2007]

Visa primes dotMobi for contactless m-payments

News Although the exact size of the investment has not been disclosed, it has secured Visa a seat on dotMobi's board of directors.dotMobi, launched last September, is responsible for the distribution of the dot-mobi top-level domain name.

Tags: mobile

[29 Mar 2007]

Dot-mobi directory coming soon

News A directory of online mobile content is to be launched this year by dotMobi, the organisation behind the new mobile-specific dot-mobi domain name. Part of dotMobi's efforts to drive mobile content, the directory will allow users to search for and...

Tags: dotmobi, mobile content, directory, search

[14 Feb 2007]

dotMobi ramps up mobile content drive

News Free software tools are being offered to dot-mobi website developers to improve the quality of content behind the mobile top-level domain name.dotMobi, the industry group behind the domain name, is launching its 'Go Mobile!

Tags: dotmobi, mobile internet, mobile content

[06 Feb 2007]

Mobile web domain up for grabs

News Registrations for the dot-mobi domain name open to the public on Tuesday. But the new dot-mobi sites will be specifically designed to be accessed via mobile phone. For that reason, greatest usage of dot-mobi sites is expected in developing...

Tags: .mobi, domain name, domain names

[25 Sep 2006]

Dot-mobi land grab underway

News A spokesman for dot-mobi and mTLD said: "Some sites are optimised for mobile users but others are not. The new dot-mobi domain is supposed to solve this problem. The idea is that users will know that if they use an address with the dot-mobi suffix...

Tags: dot-mobi

[24 May 2006]

Dot-mobi opens doors to industry registrations

News After the recent scramble for the newly released dot-eu domain names, the latest top level domain, dot-mobi, will see its sunrise period starting soon. Unlike traditional internet domains, dot-mobi is designed to host sites optimised to be viewed...

Tags: dot-mobi, .mobi, domain name

[19 May 2006]

Older phone users are biggest mobile web fans

News The mobile web also got its very own top level domain, dot-mobi, last year. Despite the shudders that will run through anyone old enough to have been familiar with WAP, it seems the mobile internet has come of age and could soon be more popular...

Tags: mobile internet

[19 Apr 2006]

Dot-mobi: Follow operator code or you don't get a URL

News mTLD, the top-level domain operator for dot-mobi websites, has stipulated that anyone wanting to register for a URL must abide by a code of best practices.mTLD announced today that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and will be...

Tags: mtld, .mobi

[24 Oct 2005]

Dot-travel domain unleashed

News Other recent new entrants to the top level domain roster include dot-mobi, a top level domain for content accessed over a mobile device and much-debated dot-xxx, for 'adult content'. The first websites using the dot-travel domain name have...

Tags: travel, domain name, icann

[04 Oct 2005]

.mobi: The internet in the palm of your hand

News The mobile community has launched the dot-mobi suffix for the growing number of websites designed to be accessed on a phone or PDA. The venture, known as the mTLD Top Level Domain, will look after the registry of addresses for the dot-mobi domain...

Tags: .mobi, top level domain

[11 Jul 2005]

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