Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Super Carnival of the Mobilists

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Photo by encouragement You hear the word “super” a lot in the US this week. An hour ago the professional football Superbowl wrapped up with an upset victory by the New York Giants. This Tuesday is Super Tuesday, when 24 states will hold presidential primary elections. A strong Super Tuesday showing by any of the candidates could assure their nomination. In keeping with the super theme I present for your enjoyment the Super Carnival of the Mobilists #109, 12 posts … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #34

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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 1053 mobile sites. Entertainment.TV Bio. (mobile.biography.com) The mobile site of cable TV’s The Biography Channel. You can definitely kill some time on this site which features well-written, in-dept bios of what Biography calls the “Top 100 Biography Subjects” in various categories like Actors, … Continue reading →

Ma.gnolia Goes Mobile

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Ma.gnolia.com is a Del.icio.us clone which is to say that it’s a bookmarking site that encourages sharing of bookmarks. There are more similarities than differences between the two sites, both use tags to categorize bookmarks and bookmarks are public by default but can be flagged as private. The main differences I see is that Magnolia has a prettier, more Web 2.0’ish Ajaxy user interface. Ma.gnolia has launched a mobile edition at m.gnolia.com. It allows you to view the most popular … Continue reading →

How to Open Multiple Tabs in Nokia WebKit

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Although my preferred mobile browser is still Opera Mini 4.0, I’ve been using Nokia’s WebKit on my N95 quite a bit lately. WebKit’s the browser that’s pre-installed on all S60 3rd edition phones including the N73, E61 and N95. It’s a very nice full-web browser based on the same open source core as Apple’s Safari. Like modern desktop browsers and also Opera Mobile and NetFront, the Nokia browser supports multiple windows or tabbed browsing. For some reason though, Nokia makes … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 108 at Skydeck

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This week’s Carnival is at Vindigo founder Jason Devitt’s Skydeck. It’s full of great posts covering the 700 MHz auction, Google’s mobile goals, mobile radiation and it’s effects on sleep, mobile platform fragmentation, how to use your mobile to check a business’s record on equal rights, a report from the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days conference and much more. Don’t miss it! Link: Carnival of the Mobilists 108 at Skydeck Next week’s Carnival is right here at WapReview. Look for … Continue reading →

Google Search Rediscovers the Mobile Web

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Nadir at SEO Principle tipped me off about Google’s latest redesign of their mobile search page. Appearance wise it’s not a big change but in terms of what it means for the mobile web it’s pretty significant. The last big change to Google mobile search was in March, 2007 when Google removed the radio buttons that allowed you the specify if you wanted to search the Web, Images, Local Listings or the Mobile Web. Google seemed to responding to Yahoo’s … Continue reading →

New YouTube Mobile Site and Java Application

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Google has upgraded the YouTube mobile web site (m.youtube.com) to include the entire catalog of millions of YouTube videos. There is also a new YouTube Java application (image) which duplicates the features on the mobile web site but with a slicker user interface. If you have one of the officially supported phones (Nokia 6110, 6120, E65, N73, N95 and Sony Ericsson k800 and w880) there is a link to download the application at the top of the mobile web page. … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 33

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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 1042 mobile sites. RSS – Blogging/RSS Readers Berry Bloglines (thebogles.com/bloglines) Another useful mobile web app from profilic developer of free Blackberry applications, Phil Bogle. Berry Bloglines is an alternate mobile web front end to the Bloglines RSS reader. Although designed for Blackberries, it … Continue reading →