Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found on the Mobile Web #40

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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 1135 mobile sites. Entertainment/Music-Nightlife Hammond Eggs (b3jazz.mobi) It’s not unusual for musical performers to have a website, in fact it’s practically a business necessity. But what about a mobile site to promote your band? The way mobile web usage is growing, creating a … Continue reading →

SuperNova Conference – Great Opportunity for Mobile Visionaries

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Do you have an idea for a killer mobile application or service? Here’s a chance to present it in front of an audience of leading mobile technolgy exectives, investors and venture capitalists. SuperNova is a major tech conference devoted to emerging web and networking technologies. It will be held in San Francisco, June 16-18. This year Supernova, in conjunction with TechCrunch, will host a session called Mobile Connections which will showcase game changing pre-commercial or non-commercial mobile “concepts, prototypes, research … Continue reading →

Opera Mini Release and Contest

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It looks like a new release of Opera Mini is imminent. The 4.1 Beta has been out for a bit over a month and Opera just announced a contest where users are asked to submit a photo and testimonial to be used in a web collage promoting a new release of Opera Mini. The prize is “an Opera goodie-bag and instant Internet fame” The deadline for submissions is only a few days away, Monday, May 12th. Details here. Hum, I … Continue reading →

AP Mobile News Network

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The Associated Press, US wire service and supplier of stories to most online news sites, has launched its own mobile site. AP seems to making a serious effort to compete with mobile news market leaders like Yahoo, BBC, CNN, The New York Times and Google, most of which are also AP customers. The portal’s design is similar to other mobile news sites, a front page of about a dozen headlines grouped under section headers like U.S. News, World News, Local … Continue reading →

New Carnival of the Mobilists

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The Carnival of the Mobilists is a weekly blog carnival featuring the best recent posts on mobile topics.  Published every Monday, the Carnival is one of the best ways to keep up with whats happening in the mobile world. This week’s edition is hosted by Xen Mendelsohn at Xellular Identity.  She’s selected 16 really great posts for her Carnival.  There are pieces on mobile Flash, marketing, education, forums, patents, legislation, statistics, hardware and quite a bit more. Congradulations to Tomi … Continue reading →

Does AskMeNow “have all the answers”

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AskMeNow is a mobile search service that claims to “have all the answers” An impossible claim of course, but the site is actually pretty useful for looking up a variety of things like Wikipedia entries, stock quotes, driving directions or sports scores. The site is a search portal with a homepage of links to news, sports, finance, entertainment, etc. sections and a Wikipedia search box. Each section has items relevant to the its topic from around the web. Most sections … Continue reading →

ATT’s $20/month unlimited HSDPA Pay As You GO

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Update: As of Nov. 2008, this package is no longer available! AT&T’s $20/moth prepaid data add-on now includes only100 MB. See AT&T Pulling the Plug on Unlimited Prepaid Data! for more details. It looks like we finally have unlimited data in the US on a prepaid plan, and it includes 3G. ATT is now offering an unlimited data Feature Pack at $19.99 per month to GoPhone Pay As You Go users. This particular option was previously only available to customers … Continue reading →

Admob Launches Mobile Analytics Suite

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There’s a real need for good mobile analytics. It’s difficult to get reliable statistics on mobile web usage particularly on a site by site basis. That could be changing soon, AdMob, the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace, is rolling out a new mobile analytics suite which looks very promising. It’s called AdMob Mobile Analytics and sounds a lot like a Google Analytics for mobile sites. It will be completely free and available to all mobile publishers whether they are AdMob … Continue reading →