Searching and clicking behavior is different on mobile phones partly because of the small screen size and partly because cellphone users are in a different frame of mind, said Roger Barnette, president of IgnitionOne, which tracks digital advertising data.
The text was often difficult to read because of the small screen, the interface was difficult to navigate, and data retrieval was slow.
Not because eating while watching the small screen contributes to obesity (although it does); it's because Jamie's Sugar Rush is not for the squeamish.
It must go deep, because it works beyond the small screen, too: Where Eagles Dare, a whoop-de-do jamboree in which Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton drag up as Nazis, was a huge hit at the box office at Christmas 1968 - and duly made the journey to television, becoming a holiday staple in the 70s.
The player with the hand-held screen can hide from and even surprise the pursuers because they can't see the small screen.
So far his story has been available only to readers, but he will be coming to the small screen because the Earthsea saga is being adapted for a mini-series on the Sci-Fi Channel.
In a telephone interview during a short break from shooting one recent afternoon, Mr. Diggs said he had made the leap to the small screen because Hollywood had begun to typecast him as either the dashing lead in buppie romantic comedies ("The Wood") or "the lone black guy in a big white movie" ("Chicago").
His acting was perfectly scaled to the confines of the small screen because so much of it was localized -- existing from the neck up, in the way he would hold his head down for a beat and peer up slightly into the lens.
