About Me

My PhotoDavid Morton (mortonmanor)
Director, Mobile Strategies
University of Washington

We are on the cusp of making great strides towards the promise of mobility. This isn't a site about me, but rather I wanted a place where people can come to learn and talk about how the promise is being realized.

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UW Mobile Usage Stats.

UW iPhone app hits the streets

As the ad on the scoreboard says, the new UW iPhone app has been released. This app has come together very quickly (less than 2 months from start to release) thanks to the hard work of a lot of people here at the UW and our partners at Mobile Edu.

Official Press Release

The University of Washington’s [...]

Enter the UW’s Name That Phone App Contest

What do you call a mobile phone application that gives you Husky sports, the UW directory, our course catalog, an interactive campus map and more? Tell us what you think we should name our soon-to-be-released mobile phone app, and you could win an iPod touch! When Stanford University released a similar application, the best name [...]

Fresh(ly) New Mobile Interface

A Fresh Coat of PaintFreshlyMobileOniPhone.gif For those of you using the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android or Blackberry Bold, FreshlyMobile has an updated mobile interface. I’d like to say that I spent hours toiling over a hot keyboard to bring this mobile goodness to you, but it really just took a couple of minutes, thanks to the WPtouch plugin from Bravenewcode.

Sync Files to your iPhone (3GS etc)

Have you ever wanted to access the latest documents from your Mac or PC on your iPhone? This seems to happen to me all the time: Someone is late for a meeting and I have some time to kill or I’m at lunch when I’ve been inspired solution to a problem that’s been vexing me [...]

Mobile Grow Slows

Economic Sympathies Mar-09-wifigrowth.png After seemingly never-ending growth new devices on the UW WiFi network came to a screeching halt last month. As the chart to the left illustrates a receipt staggering month over month increases in the unique WiFi devices on the network. March marks the first month in recent memory with a number of devices actually decreased (although just slightly). iPhones, Android and Blackberry are up While usage most devices was flat in March, the iPhone, T-Mobile’s G1 and Blackberries were all up slightly. Briefly looking at the data it isn’t clear what it’s leading to the decline, though I suspect that the weak economy and general slowing consumer spending play a big role. You can see all the details on my UW Stats page .