Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Google Mobile Book Search

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Google continues to roll out new mobile products.  Monday it was Tasks, yesterday Latitude and today we have Google Mobile Book Search at books.google.com/m.  It’s an iPhonesque mobile interface into 1.5 million  public domain books that Google has scanned as part of its Book Search project. I heard about it first  from microflash on Twitter.  There’s an official announcement on the Inside Book Search blog. The new mobile interface lets you search  for and read any of  the 1.5 million … Continue reading →

Google Latitude – This is Big!

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Last month Google killed four of their mobile services (Jaiku, Notes, Dodgeball and the iPhone and Android specific variants of iGoogle) and I was starting to have doubts about the search and advertising giant’s commitment to mobile. I shouldn’t have doubted, on Monday Google rolled out Tasks for Mobile, and today launched a brand new service, Google Latitude. Latitude adds location tracking to the Google Maps mobile application and to iGoogle on the desktop.  You can track yourself and anyone … Continue reading →

New Bolt Browser Beta

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Bitstream has released an update (V. 0.83) to their Java ME based Bolt full-web mobile browser. Here’s a changelog: APN configuration automated for BlackBerry devices.  BOLT now auto-detects network details.  This will eliminate the “internet not available” error messages, and manual APN configuration requirements, some BlackBerry users were experiencing. BlackBerry dedicated back key support. Also supported on some SE devices. BlackBerry scrolling enhancements.  Scrolling on track ball BlackBerry devices is now faster and smoother. BlackBerry-specific enhancements to match BlackBerry system … Continue reading →

Google Tasks For Mobile Released

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Yesterday Google launched a mobile web version of  their Beta Tasks web application. Tasks is a Google Labs product currently.  Before you can use it on your phone you have to first go into the “standard” (not basic HTML) desktop version of gMail, click on “Settings” and then on the “Labs” tab and enable Tasks. On the full web, Google Tasks is integrated into Gmail.  The mobile version is a stand alone page.  To view it visit gmail.com/tasks (in some … Continue reading →

Mathew Miller’s New Site – Nokia Experts

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Remember Mathew Miller at ZDNet’s “Smartphones and Cell Phones”? He’s the guy who wrote the ultimate T-Mobile G1 launch day review with  five videos and 260 images including a shot of every single screen and dialog box on the phone! Matthew’s back with a new site, his third and it covers my favorite mobile hardware brand. The new site is Nokia Experts and it’s about Nokia phones and software for them.  Nokia Experts is available on both  the full web … Continue reading →

New Carnival of the Mobilists

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This week’s edition of the best blog carnival and the only one dedicated to mobile topics is at the Mobile Broadband Blog.  Starting off with a photo of a different kind of Carnival, Quebec City’s Winter Carnival, first time host Ram Krishnan has put together a great collection of the best recent mobile related blog posts. I especially enjoyed Ofir Leitner’s “Top 8 rules for mobile entrepreneurs & application developers” which deservedly took Post of the Week honors and also … Continue reading →

Japan’s Biggest Mobile Social Network Goes Global

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MobaMingle (m.mbmgl.com) is the English version of Mobile Game Town, Japan’s biggest (10 million members) mobile-only social network. It seems to be a pretty literal translation of the Japanese original, both in look and feel and in most of the features. Mobamingle has the usual trappings of other mobile social networks, messaging, groups, blogs, friends and a “wall” but adds only-in-Japan features like anime style avatars and user created mobile novels. One thing missing is the signature element of Mobile … Continue reading →

Interview With mKhoj CEO Naveen Tewari

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Disclaimer: mKhoj is an advertiser on this site and I use their services to display ads on one of my mobile sites. mKhoj a mobile advertising startup based in Mumbai, India with offices in Singapore, Bangalore and Palo Alto. The company has received funding totaling $7.6 million from The Mumbai Angels, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. I find mKhoj interesting for a couple of reasons. First it is an example of something I’ve been expecting ever since … Continue reading →