Opera Mini Friendster Problem Fixed!

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Dennis Bournique

Yesterday I wrote about Friendster’s redesigned mobile site. It’s generally pretty good except for one major usability issue. The problem is that Friendster is forcing all mobile browsers to use the mobile site, even “full-web” browsers like Opera Mini and Nokia Webkit which can easily handle the full version of Friendster. Several Opera Mini using Friendster members were upset enough about this to complain on the Opera Mini support forum at MyOpera.com. Today Opera answered their complaints in a rather … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #126

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Dennis Bournique

This week its at tarekesber.com where Tarek has gathered up the best posts on mobile topics from around the web. At this Carnival you can catch up with what happened at Google I/O and the Future in Review 2008 conference and read about Nokia Maps, the Asian Mobile Ecosystem, mobile web statistics, what makes a good mobile browser, 3G iPhone speculation, mobile audio blogging, mobile social and more. Head on over to Tarek’s place to visit the midway of mobile … Continue reading →

Google I/O Wrapup

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Dennis Bournique

Photo by SeanOsteen Some rights reserved. The two days I spent Google I/O were an exciting whirlwind of running from presentation to presentation, and much to my surprise, eating! I didn’t think I’d ever praise the food at a tech conference but as a couple Googlers pointed out, with Google the food is always good. The usual conference fare is a box lunch consisting of a sandwich, apple, bag of chips and cookie. Not for I/O though, Google set up … Continue reading →

Anticipating Android at Google I/O

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Dennis Bournique

I spent the day at the Google I/O developer’s conference here in San Francisco. What a great event and hugely popular. I attended all the mobile track sessions, three on Android and one on Gears for mobile. The day stared with Vic Gundotra’s keynote. Vince’s message was that Google wants to give developers the tools to build a better web, something Google and developers both stand to benefit from. He mentioned Google’s debt to the Open Source movement and said … Continue reading →

New N95-3 Firmware Update is Available.

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Dennis Bournique

Nokia released a firmware upgrade, V 20.2.011, for the US model N95 yesterday. I had no problems installing it on my N95. The process took about 30 minutes; 5 minutes to do a backup with PC Suite, about 20 minutes for Nokia Software Update (now part of PC Suite) to flash the new firmware and another 5 minutes to restore the backup. The process was very smooth and confidence inspiring and I had no problems with the actual upgrade. Nokia’s … Continue reading →

Carnival Of the Mobilists #125

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Dennis Bournique

That’s right, it’s carnival time again. Every Monday, the Carnival of the Mobilists sets up at a different blog. The Carnival is a showcase of the best recent items from around the web on mobile topics. Reading it every week is a great way to keep up with what’s happening in mobile without investing a lot of time following dozens of sites. This week first time host Matt Radford is holding the Carnival at his All About iPhone.net site. Matt’s … Continue reading →

Announcing Mobile 2.0 Europe

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Dennis Bournique

The Mobile Monday team of Daniel Appelquist, Gregory Gorman, Mike Rowehl, Peter Vesterbacka and Rudy De Waele together with dotopen and ESADE have put together another Mobile 2.0 event, this one to be held in Barcelona on July 4th, 2008. Details are here. I had the pleasure of attending the first two Mobile 2.0 events here in San Francisco and I have to say that they are the best mobile conferences I’ve ever attended anywhere. Mobile 2.0 brings together the … Continue reading →

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