Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Access Linux Platform

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Access held a “Developer Day” at LinuxWorld yesterday to demonstrate Access Linux Platform (ALP) and it’s associated toolset. Access is  best known for the NetFront full-web mobile browser and for purchasing PalmSource, including the Palm Garnet OS three years ago.  ALP is Access’ Linux based mobile OS which is meant to succeed Garnet as a general purpose operating system for smartphones and MIDs.  I attended several of the Developer Day sessions to see what I could find out about ALP. … Continue reading →

Free Space Wallpapers For Yor Phone

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If you are an astronomy buff or just want a beautiful wallpaper image for your phone. check out SpaceWallpapers (spacewallpapers.net/mobile/) for a nice collection of free mobile wallpaper images of celestial objects including planets, galaxies and nebula. There are over 70 to chose from. The images are high quality color photographs and are free to download directly to your phone or to a PC for sideloading to a phone. All the wallpapers are available in 176×220 and 240×320 sizes. The … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #43

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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 1181 mobile sites. Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio MoviePreviews (mpviews.com) This site has dozens of streaming videos including trailers for recent movie releases, TV show previews and video game demos.  The videos are in the 144x176px h263 format which is supported by almost all modern phones. … Continue reading →

Mobile Web Wars Video?

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I’m traveling in the US Midwest so I missed last week’s TechCrunch/August Capital Mobile Web Wars roundtable. I’d like to watch the video of the event at Ustream.tv but I’m sans laptop on this trip. An N95-3 is my computer. The Ustream video is Flash so S60Webkit and Mobitubia should be able to display it, but they can’t. It must be in some sort of weird Flash variant. The Beta Skyfire browser actually starts to play the video but locks up about five minutes into the two … Continue reading →

AccuWeather Mobile Site Update

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AccuWeather has updated their mobile site AND changed the URL. It’s now just accuweather.com. Browser detection is used to render mobile or full content based on device capabilities. You better hope that the detection works properly as there doesn’t seem to be a dedicated mobile URL. The site Includes satellite and radar images as well as current and 15 day forecasts for locations anywhere in the world. Users can save their favorite locations. Animated radar and satellite maps are centered … Continue reading →

Skyfire S60 Beta Available

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At last! The Skyfire browser is available for S60 3rd Edition phones (Nokia N95, N82, E71, etc). I’ve been eagerly awaiting this since it was first announced, what a year ago? It’s a closed beta, so head on over to skyfire.comand sign up if you haven’t already. If you were accepted for the Windows Mobile Beta, as I was although I never installed as I don’t have a WinMo phone, it looks like you are automatically in the Symbian one … Continue reading →

Sports Illustrated Mobile

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Time Warner’s weekly print sport magazine, Sports Illustrated (SI), finally has a mobile web site of its own. For the last few years, Sports Illustrated content has appeared as a section within CNN Mobile (Time Warner also owns CNN) but now it has its own URL: m.si.com.  The site covers news from  MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, NASCAR, Professional Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Cycling, College Football and Basketball and even occasional coverage of high school sports. SI’s numerous writers and columnists are also featured with … Continue reading →

AskMoby – Custom Weather Forecasts

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AskMoby (askmoby.com) is a new mobile weather service with a couple of clever features. When you request a forecast you also pick your planned activity from a list of Golf, Walking, Surfing, Sailing, Football and a few more. Supposedly the results are customized based on your proposed activity. I suspect that this feature isn’t quite finished yet. The only difference I could see is that with sailing and surfing the results include wave and swell data. All activities get the … Continue reading →