Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

An Explosion of Mobile Banking Sites

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Here’s another sign that the mobile web is going mainstream. I’ve seen a huge increase in the number of banks offering web based mobile banking recently. Banks are very conservative when it comes to rolling out new online services. Until recently, there were only a few banks offering any sort of mobile banking and many of those that did, like CitiBank, took the route of using downloadable applications.  Bank of America was the first major US bank to offer mobile … Continue reading →

Book Review: Tomi Ahonen’s Pearls Vol 1: Mobile Advertising

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Mobile guru and king of mobile statistics, Tomi T. Ahonen has just published a new book. Titled “Tomi Ahonen’s Pearls Vol 1: Mobile Advertising“, it’s Tomi’s first book to be published as an eBook.  If you’ve read any of  other Tomi’s books or heard him speak you are no doubt familiar with his concept of mobile “Pearls”.  Pearls are unique, innovative and generally highly successful mobile service concepts. Tomi first started collecting Pearls in 2000 when he was at Nokia … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 157 at mjelly

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James Cooper at mjelly has just posted the latest Carnival of the Mobilists.  Illustrated with some nice Carnival photos,  it features 21 great posts on mobile topics. The recession seems to have gotten a lot of the mobilists thinking about business models, marketing and advertising as they relate to mobile. This Carnival is loaded with posts on these bread and butter topics.  Not that it’s dominated by economic issues,  there are plenty of pieces on other aspects of the mobile … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 48

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Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1293 mobile sites. News/International/Europe NewsNow (nnmob.com) which claims to be “The UK’s #1 News Portal” is a River of News style aggregator which is updated every five minutes with news headlines from hundreds of online sources around the world.  The mobile page includes just the headline … Continue reading →

Bolt Browser Review

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I’ve been playing with the Bolt browser for a couple of hours now and my impressions are generally pretty good.  Bolt is from Cambridge, Massachusetts based Bitstream, a company best known for it’s digital fonts and font rendering software. But Bitstream is not new to the browser field, they also produce the ThunderHawk browser for Windows Mobile and  Symbian. Bolt, like ThanderHawk (and Opera Mini, Skyfire, UCWEB and Teashark),  is a server based browser meaning that much of the page  … Continue reading →

New Mobile Browser – Bolt

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There’s a new mobile browser in town.  It’s called Bolt and is a server based Java ME browser like Opera Mini but it’s supposed to be even faster.  Bolt is in closed Beta but you should be able to get it from www.boltbrowser.com using the code; CrackBerry Bolt is free and is supposed to work on most phones with Java MIDP 2.0 support.  It definitely runs on my BlackBerry 7100i.  I’ll try it on a Nokia  N95 next.  I’ll be … Continue reading →

Is Google Losing Their Edge in Mobile?

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Google apparently killed three of their mobile products today.  Google Notebook, Jaiku and Dodgeball.  I really don’t get it. Less than a year ago CEO Eric Schmidt said that “…mobile will be a larger business than the PC-Web” and now he is killing mobile products! Of the three services, micro-blogging platform Jaiku had the most mind share with a fanatically loyal user base. The Finnish startup was acquired by Google in Oct 2007 with much fanfare.  Google stated at the … Continue reading →

G-SNAP – Mobile Social Datacasting

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G-SNAP! is a new social network based around live updates from events. Users create “SnapCasts” which are channels dedicated to a particular a sporting event, concert, conference or  live news event. The person who created the SnapCast posts updates in the form of  text, photos and  videos.  SnapCasts are public, anyone can view a SnapCast and any registered G-SNAP! user can add comments to it.  SnapCasts remind me of Twittter hashtags but with multimedia  integration. They also have two features … Continue reading →