R&D into Mobile Technologies by Magic

Magic — a key developer working with Pearson on a variety of digital projects — have supplied Pearson with an informative PowerPoint presentation summarising their R&D work into mobile technologies. Amongst other topics the document covers the following :



key trends and developments in the field of mobile device technology
production processes for multi-channel publishing
key usability and design considerations
possibilities for publishing in this field (including specific examples of applications that Magic have created).


Additional mobile device technology resources:


Contextual applications as envisioned by Adobe (lots of theory and terminology!): http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/context_apps/#getstarted
The Open Screen Project. Adobe attempt to position itself for cross platform dev. Impressive list of partners: http://www.openscreenproject.org/
The 'Magic of Yoga' app on iTunes developed by Magic: http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/the-magic-yoga-sun-salutation/id369652156?mt=8
HTML 5 implementation by Scribd: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20004339-264.html