Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

What’s New In The Nokia Belle Browser

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Nokia Belle Browser - Geolocation prompt

Nokia Belle comes with a new 7.4 version  of the Webkit based Nokia browser. Here’s a run down of what I’ve been able to find that’s new and improved in latest browser. Geolocation support. Sites can now use a Web standards compliant Javascript API to request the user’s location. When a site makes a location request the browser prompts the user if they wish to allow or deny the request (image above, left). This feature works with many existing sites … Continue reading →

Nokia Belle On My N8 – First Impressions

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Nokia Belle - Email and Missed Call Notification in Statusbar

Belle, the latest OS upgrade for what used to be called Symbian phones, was released yesterday in most markets for the C6-01, C7, E6, E7, N8, X7 and Oro. Update: Belle for the Nokia 500 was released Feb 15.)  I was pleasantly surprised  to see that updates for US phones were available on the first day of the rollout. This is a welcome change from the Anna release which came to North America months after it was available in most countries. … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #251

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Move the Web Forward

Found on the Mobile Web is a regular 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 2361 mobile sites. Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development Move the Web Forward movethewebforward.org A “Responsive Web Design” promoting web developer community involvement in open standards. Links to web design and development resources and places where you can contribute to creating and promoting open standards. Content: … Continue reading →

LIFE.com’s Searchable Mobile Gallery Of Over 10 Million Photographs

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Mobile LIFE.com

Before TV and the Web, LIFE Magazine was the biggest thing in mass media.  The large format pictorial news weekly was the best selling magazine in the US with a weekly circulation of over 13.5 million in the 1940’s. LIFE played a major role in the development of the craft of photojournalism.  It published many of the best photographers of the 20th Ccentury including Alfred Eisenstaed, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Andreas Feininger, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith and Edward … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #250

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jwz

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 2365 mobile sites. Entertainment and Leisure jwz www.jwz.org/blog/ An entertaining and popular blog by Netscape and Mozilla.org, founder and developer(XEmacs) turned nightclub operator/restaurateur Jamie Zawinski. On his blog, Jamie covers everything from techie conundrums to hardware hacking to all the weird and wacky stuff … Continue reading →

Mobile Site Mini Review – New Mobile News Blog – Mobile 360

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Mobile 360

I just discovered yet another mobile tech news site Mobile360.com, which launched around May of last year. It’s London based and appears to share ownership with the well established German language site mobile360.de. General mobile news is a crowded and competitive world but Mobile360 seems to have hit the ground running with frequent updates, well researched and well written items and an attractive site design. They apparently have some journalistic chops too. I discovered Mobile360 because they were the first to break … Continue reading →

Mobile Site Mini Review – @JebBrilliant’s “The Mobile Perspective”

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The Mobile Perspective

Formerly aBrilliantBlog, this is @JebBrilliant‘s blog on all things mobile. Jeb is the community manager for Phone.com and also runs a trade show and events production company. At The Mobile Perspective, Jeb covers mobile services, VOIP, social networking and devices. Content includes reviews, news and opinion pieces as well as video interviews with industry executives and major players. Jeb uses WordPress Mobile Pack to deliver a small footprint, quick loading version of the site to all mobile browsers. Unfortunately, the … Continue reading →

How To Blackout Your Blogger and WordPress (.org or .com) Sites To Protest SOPA

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Blogger site redirected to stopsopa.ord using JavaScript

This site along, with several thousand others including Wikipedia, WordPress.org, Reddit, Boing Boing and XDA-Developers will be shutting down for 24 hours tomorrow to protest  SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act  (HR3261) and the Protect IP Act (S.968 ).  These two proposed laws were drafted by and for the old guard entertainment industry (Hollywood, record labels and print publishing houses, mainly) and are backed by a two million dollar lobbying effort. The bills are supposed to combat online piracy and illegal file sharing. However they … Continue reading →