Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

mShopper – Mobile Shopping Gets Closer

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Here’s another in the rapidly growing field of mobile shopping sites. It’s mShopper (www.mshopper.net/wap) and is billed as a price comparison tool. The idea is that when you are shopping at a brick and mortar store and see something you are considering buying, you use mShopper to compare the merchant’s price with what online stores are charging. The comparison is limited to mShopper’s partner stores but there are currently oven 100 partners including Amazon, B&H Photo, Walmart, Target and dozens … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 117

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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists has been posted by Jamie Wells at mobilestance.com – a blog about mobile marketing perspectives and analysis. This Carnival has a number of excellent posts on topics including the iPhone, mobile web development, social networking, QR Codes and a comparison of global subscriber and mobile data numbers. Visit the Carnival: here

Book Review, Mobile Web Development by Nirav Mehta

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The target audience of this book is  anyone with a basic understanding of html and general programming concepts who is interested in developing a mobile web site. Writing in a lively and readable style, the author begins with a brief introduction to the mobile web, what it is and why it’s poised for explosive growth. There is a discussion of the variety of mobile devices  and browsers, the differences between them and of how the mobile web is used differently … Continue reading →

MobileActive

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Mobile phones have had a huge effect on society by making interpersonal communication instant and always available. They are also becoming important tools for political and social change.  Here are a few examples: Most of the reportage, both text and pictures, documenting the repression of the Tibetan Independence movement has come from camera phones and SMS eyewitnes accounts. Twitter proved it’s value for  emergency communications in use by police and fire departments and the Red Cross  during last October’s Southern California wildfires. Barak Obama’s presidential campaign … Continue reading →

How Web to Mobile Transcoding Should Work

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Luca Passani, the co-creator and maintainer of the WURFL mobile device characteristics database, with input from other mobile developers has published what he calls a “Manifesto for Ethical Reformatting“. The manifesto outlines some simple rules for how transcoding can work to make non-mobile websites usable on any phone, without breaking the mobile web. This manifesto is a reation to the current transcoding implementations from Vodafone in the UK, Spain, and Portugal with Novarra, and Vodafone Ireland with Bytemobile and Sprint … Continue reading →

Mobile March Madness

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That’s the annual NCAA College Basketball Championships on your mobile. Popularly known as March Madness, the two tournaments (one for men’s teams the other for the women) each pit the top 65 US college teams in a 3 week long single elimination tournament. March Madness is easily the most popular college sports event in the country. I think its appeal is due to the large number of teams, increasing the likelihood of your alma mater participating, and for gamblers the … Continue reading →

Sprint OpenWeb Update

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I’ve found out a little more about the OpenWeb transcoder that US CDMA/EVDO provider Sprint is rolling out which I wrote about last week. If you missed that piece, Sprint has added a transcoder from OpenWave called OpenWeb to at least some of their WAP gateways. The stated purpose of OpenWeb is to transform full web pages that wouldn’t be usable on handsets into something mobile friendly. The problem is that the OpenWeb software modifies the browser’s http headers, removing … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 115 at blog.andrewgrill.com

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It’s Monday and that means another great Carnival of the Mobilists has been posted. This week it’s hosted by Andrew Grill on his blog.anderew.com. There you will find a dozen great posts on everything from the iPhone SDK to a look at Yahoo’s new Fire Eagle location based service. Reading the Carnival every week is a great way to keep up with the latest trends in mobile technology and business. Click Here to Visit the Carnival!