The Carnival ot the Mobilists that is. This week the famous traveling showcase of mobile themed blog posts is at the mjelly mobile internet blog. James at mjelly has picked a dozen and one items to highlight as the week’s best writing on mobile. Lots of good stuff this time including pieces on what’s up with Symbian and Openwave, both of which have new owners and new directions, a look at Vodafone’s future under a new CEO, posts on Nokia’s … Continue reading
I love OpenTable. If you aren’t familiar with the service, it’s an online search for available reservations at local restaurants. You select your city, preferred dinning time, the size of your party and optionally the neighborhood and cuisine and OpenTable returns a list all the restaurants that have availability. It such a time saver compared with calling up restaurant after restaurant, being put on hold for five minutes and then being told “Sorry we have nothing available at that time”. … Continue reading
The iPhone has done so much to generate interest in using the web on phones with its big, beautiful screen and powerful browser with full JavaScript and CSS support. But the iPhone feature that seems to excite people the most is “Pinch to Zoom”. Apple has given the UI, including the browser, a multi-touch interface that lets you use two fingers to zoom; you slide your fingers apart to zoom in and see more details, slide them together to zoom … Continue reading
I’ve added the entertainment cable and satellite television channel, VH1’s mobile site wap.vh1.com to the WapReview directory. It’s a complete mobile entertainment portal with news, gossip, photos, videos, contests and polls. The photo selection is particularly extensive with hundreds of photos organized into “FlipBooks” – slide shows based on a theme like “Reality Girls Gone Bad” or “Hottest Hunks Under 25“. VH1’s video section contains around 20 free clips in 176×144 H.263 format, which is compatible with almost any phone. … Continue reading
CNET owned Silicon.com, a UK based news site targeted at corporate IT managers, now has a mobile edition. The announcement is here and Silicon.com is promoting its .mobi with a link and a banner ad on the PC site’s front page. A word of warning though, the announcement says in a big bold green font that the mobile URL is www.silicon.mobi but that address just gives me a “Page Not Found” error. The correct address is siliconuk.mobi which appears elsewhere … Continue reading
Sometimes it’s hard to understand Microsoft’s Web and Mobile Web branding. There’s MSN and there’s Windows Live and I never know which one to use. I think back in 2005 when Live was launched it was supposed to eventually replace MSN. It was a full portal; Live Search, Live Spaces, Live HotMail, Live Messenger and a Live homepage with News and Sports. But Live as a replacement for MSN never really took off and it seems to be have been … Continue reading
ZDNet, the online tech news, reviews and software download site, also hosts a network of around 45 blogs including several well known and popular ones like Mary Jo Foley’s All about Microsoft and Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’s Hardware 2.0. There’s a list and links to all 45 on the Blogs tab of the ZdNet Homepage. I knew that at least one ZDNet Blog, Matthew Miller’s The Mobile Gadgeteer, had a mobile edition and it turns out that all of them do. There’s … Continue reading
The mobile world is abuzz with the news of Nokia’s plans to open source Symbian. There’s been a lot of great analysis of what this means for Nokia and its major competitors. If you aren’t up to speed on what it means, I recommend Micheal Mace’s in depth business analysis, Symbian changes everything, and nothing and Simon Judge’s developer perspective, What I’m wondering though is how the existence of a free, high quality, open source mobile software stack will change … Continue reading