Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Revvs – Mobile Motorsports News Aggregator

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m.Revvs.net is a new motorsports mobile web site which presents excepts (typically the first paragraph of a longer story) pulled from news sources around the world. Each story is illustrated with a 128x128px image. There’s a lot of news on this site, with around 60 news items appearing on the site at any time, probably more than any other mobile motorsports site. Revvs covers all areas of the sport with dedicated sections for F1, MotoGP and NASCAR and an “Other … Continue reading →

DeviceAtlas Data Explorer

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dotMobi has released a new tool for mobile developers and designers.  It’s Data Explorer, an easy way to interactively browse and query the DeviceAtlas database.  Device Atlas is dotMobi’s mobile device repository which combines data from 12 sources including WURFL, Volantis, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Vodafone, Bango and ArgoGroup. Its main purpose is to provide data that mobile developers can use to optimize mobile pages for various devices. Data Explorer is a web based interactive tool that lets you analyze the … Continue reading →

Best Western Mobile

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BestWestern.com detects mobile browsers and redirects to a mobile site where you can find and book hotels in the Best Western chain, which operates in the United States, Canada and Australia. Like just about every mobile hotel booking site I’ve every seen, this one has some pretty horrendous usability problems. Things start fairly well with a search form where you enter the city and dates you want to book and then choose the state and country from a drop down. … Continue reading →

2008 Mobile 2.0 Event San Francisco – Part 2

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Updated: Added link to slides from presentation by Taptu’s Stefan Butlin – 13-Nov-2008. This is the second part of my wrap up from yesterday’s Mobile Web 2.0 event.  The first part covered the morning business track.  The business track continued in the afternoon but I chose to attend the afternoon developer or “Builder” Track. Caroline Lewko started things off with a welcome and some tips on marketing applications. Caroline urged developers to sell through as many channels as possibe and … Continue reading →

148th Carnival of the Mobilists at Mopocket

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There’s a new Carnival of the Mobilists posted at mopocket.com.  It’s election day in the US and this week’s Carnival host, Justin Oberman has given his carnival an election theme. Hopefully, this will serve to remind US readers to be sure to vote today.  In keeping with the theme, Little Springs Design’s Barbara Ballard contributed a piece on the (un)usability of touchscreen voting machines. There are some great posts in this week’s Carnival including a couple of new takes on … Continue reading →

2008 Mobile 2.0 Event San Francisco – Part 1

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Today was the 3rd annual Mobile2.0 Event in San Francisco. This is my favorite mobile conference, fast paced, intimate and  with a no PowerPoint rule! Mobile 2.0 always seems to draw the best presenters and the attendees are a nice balance of developers and entrepreneurs from the Americas, Europe and Asia.  This year’s event was no exception. Kudos to the organizers: Daniel Appelquist from Vodafone; Gregory Gorman, Tertius; Mike Rowehl, Skyfire, Peter Vesterbacka, Some Bazaar and Mobile Monday and Rudy … Continue reading →

nayaNews -The Latest News From Multiple Sites

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nayaNews.mobi – From the creators of the myToday personal mobile portal comes nayaNews.  It’s a news aggregator in the style of Google News but with an emphasis on Indian and Asian news.  nayaNews pulls the latest stories from the RSS feeds of a  variety of Indian and world news sources including Sify.com, ZeeNews.com, NDTV.com, the Times of India, DNA – India, the BBC, Asian Age and the Business Standard.  Stories are organized into sections: News, Business,  Tech, World and Sports. … Continue reading →

Explosion in African Mobile Browsing

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Opera’s latest State Of the Mobile Web Report for the month of September focuses on Africa. It’s an eye opener for anyone with a US or Euro-centric view of Internet use on cell phones.  The report, which tracks the usage of Opera Mini, indicates that traffic from Africa is up 180% since January, 2008. Gains in some African countries are incredibly high.  September over January page views from Egypt increased 2300%, Nigeria 1690%, Libya 8537%, Zambia, 1200%, Swaziland  1700%.  Opera … Continue reading →