Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

CAT Scale – A .Mobi For Truckers

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I don’t know how many truckers read Wap Review but I bet there are at least a few. So here’s a dedicated trucking industry mobile site. It’s a  truck scale locator from CAT Scale, a company that manufactures and operates automatic truck scales. The URL is catscale.mobi CAT Scale claims to be the largest truck scale network in the world, with over 1,200 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. It’s important for truckers to know the weight of their rigs … Continue reading →

NHL Mobile

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The National Hockey League (NHL) which is professional hockey in the US and Canada has launched a slick new mobile site at m.nhl.com.  It includes a mobile version of NHL Game Center which displays today’s games with live scores in a grid.  Clicking on a game row opens a view with a summary of scoring plays  from that game.  Game Center has a history feature that lets you to skip back a day at a time  to  see a recap … Continue reading →

AdSense for Mobile Woes – Solved!

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Remember a month ago when I blogged about how AdSense for Mobile had suddenly stopped working on wapreview.mobi.  And my repeated attempts at contacting Google using their official support email and online help form and getting nothing in reply except unhelpful automated replies? Well I finally got AdSense working again, no thanks to Google and their apparent policy of no support for AdSense.  To be fair, the problem was never Google’s.  It turned out that something I did broke AdSense.  … Continue reading →

New Mobile Carnival

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Over at VoIP Survivor, Tsahi Levent-Levi has just posted “The Carnival is Back in Town (Carnival of the Mobilists #158)“. The latest Carnival is full of great posts on the mobile experience and ecosystem.  Regardless of which areas of mobile interest you; hardware, software, marketing, corporate strategy, user experience, development or security;  I think you will find something of value in this Carnival. Thank you, Tsahi for including my “Transcoders and HTTPS” piece. There is also a great post by … Continue reading →

idiomag – Personalized Mobile Music News and Videos

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idiomag is a personalized online music magazine offering the latest in music news, reviews, music tracks and streaming videos. While anyone can use idiomag and get generic content, if you register at idiomag.com you can set you musical preferences and import your profile from last.fm Pandora, iLike, Playlist.com, MyStrands, MOG or Songza.  idiomag will then be personalized with music recommendations, tracks and videos based on your musical likes. idiomag’s mobile edition (m.idiomag.com) includes news, reviews and videos. It uses browser … Continue reading →

Transcoders and HTTPS

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The W3C is still grappling with the issues around content transformation. As I wrote back in August, the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group (BPWG) within the W3C is in the process of formulating a set of Content Transformation Guidelines, defining how web to mobile transcoders should work. The discussions have been extremely heated.  Virtually everyone developing mobile web sites just wants  transcoders to leave their content alone.  There’s considerable distrust in the developer community about the the BPWG, which many … Continue reading →

Zillow Mobile

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Zillow.com has gone mobile with a site at mobile.zillow.com.  Zillow is a familiar name for house hunters in the US. It’s s a real estate search site that was started by a couple of Microsoft and Expedia alumni and has really taken off,  thanks to its unique interface that makes obscure public records of home sales and assessments highly available and accessible to anyone. The way Zillow works  is that you enter any US residential address and get back you … Continue reading →

Bolt Browser News and Referral Codes

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BitStream just gave me 500 referral codes for the Bolt Browser that I reviewed last Friday.  If you don’t have Bolt, go to http://boltbrowser.com click the “Download” tab and fill out the form, entering wapreview in the referral code field. I also found out a little more about Bolt. Versions and Upgrades: The initial release of Bolt was version 0.70, the latest is 0.73 – which is what you should have if you downloaded after 9 AM EST on Friday.  … Continue reading →