Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Orkut Mobile is Live

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Google’s four year old social networking service, Orkut finally has a mobile version! There’s been no announcement, but m.orkut.com is up and running. InsideOrkut.com (mobile version) discovered it Saturday. Orkut (Wikipedia) never really caught on anywhere else but it’s huge in Brazil and India with 83% of Orkut’s traffic coming from those two countries, according to Alexa. In spite of only being really popular in two (very large) countries Orkut still manages to be the number three social network (after … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #38

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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 1112 mobile sites. Technology/Tech News Network World (mobile.networkworld.com/htmlsite) is a free weekly “controlled circulation” print newspaper and web site targeted at IT networking professionals. It features news, reviews, buying guides, editorials and forums. The mobile site is created and hosted by mDog.com Content: … Continue reading →

The End of the Smartphone?

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I’m a mobile geek and I like my smartphone toys but I’m starting to wonder if they are really necessary. Smartphone sales are increasing but I have this wild theory that in a few years they will cease to exist as a separate class of devices. First a definition. Not everyone even agrees what constitutes a smartphone. For the purpose of this argument it’s a device running a named mobile operating system including Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm, Blackberry and the … Continue reading →

Yodlee – Powerful Mobile Money Management

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Yodlee Money Center is a web based personal finance application. The service, which is free for personal use, is actually an “account aggregator” meaning it lets you view and manage multiple bank and brokerage, credit card, loan and PayPal accounts within a single application. Yodlee can import transactions from hundreds of institutions and when it loads your transactions it automatically assigns each to a category like income, expenses, entertainment, utilities. You can override these categories and setup your own. Yodlee … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists # 118 is Online

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Paul Rupert at Mobile Point View has posted the latest Carnival. This week’s theme is the CTIA Wireless mobile industry trade show in Las Vegas. Get the odds on best reviews and wrapups of all that happened at CTIA. Not that this Carnival is only about CTIA, as always, it showcases the best recent writing on all things mobile. This week that includes pieces on mobile web development, advertising, marketing, location based services, machine language translation and much more. Don’t … Continue reading →

TMZ Mobile

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One of AOL’s few recent success, TMZ is the second most popular celebrity news and gossip blog on the web (after PerezHilton.com) according to Alexa. As reported by MocoNews, TMZ now has a mobile edition. I’m not exactlly a big celebrity follower but was I impressed by TMZ mobile. The site features the text and images of the last 20 items 0n TMZ’s PC site in a mobile format that should work on almost any phone. Images are sized to … Continue reading →

WIND Italy – Great Deal for Travelers

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My wife and I spent last week vacationing in Florence (Firenze), Italy. A truly incredible place for art and architecture. Naturally I wanted to have mobile web access while on vacation. The only affordable way to do this is with a local SIM card. Because I was arriving late the Saturday before Easter and knew the mobile shops were going to be closed until at least Monday, I decided to go the eBay route. There’s always a bit of risk … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 4.1 Beta

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There’s a new Opera Mini release, version 4.1, now available as public beta. Anyone can download it by pointing their phone browser at mini.opera.com/beta. BlackBerry and Palm versions and generic .jad and .jar files for side loading can be downloaded to your PC at www.operamini.com/beta This release is pretty exciting as it adds a number of new features that users have been requesting on the Opera Mini Forum. The changes include: Search for text in the current page. Press #,* … Continue reading →