Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Opera Mini’s New Dimension

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Opera Software has announced that a major new beta release of the Opera Mini Browser will be launched next Tuesday, June 19th. The new version, code named Dimension, is said to have been rewritten from the ground up and to incorporate at least one revolutionary new feature. You can sign up for the beta at www.operamini.com/beta. Opera Mini is already revolutionary. It has completely transformed the mobile browsing experience particularly on mainstream phones and slow networks. Using nothing more than … Continue reading →

InfoSpace FindIt

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InfoSpace.com is an interesting mobile company. It’s a mobile web pioneer – launching it’s first mobile site – a phone directory search eight years ago. It’s a real survivor too. The company weathered the original Internet bubble, the early failure of WAP and it’s own mismanagement to build a relatively successful business creating mobile sites and back end services for mobile providers. Some of the services InfoSpace provides to carriers include portals, messaging, white label web and directory search services … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #77

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The weekly celebration of all things mobile kicked off last night at Symbian in Motion. Appearing every Monday, the Carnival collects the best recent posts on any and all aspects of mobile technology. Zach at Symbian in Motion has created a very impressive site which provides a great showcase for the Carnival. The graphic above, lifted from the site, gives a taste of Symbian in Motion‘s great site design. Definitely worth a visit. Link: Carnival of the Mobilists #77

RTAmobile

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Chicago’s Regional Transit Authority (RTA) has a mobile site (www.rtamobile.com) with a trip planner and schedules for all the agencies that operate rail and bus transit in the greater Chicago area. I’ve been to Chicago several times and have been impressed with the city’s public transit system – fast frequent rail service goes almost everywhere and where rail doesn’t go there is good bus service. I had high expectations for RTA’s trip planner. I have to say I was disappointed. … Continue reading →

Offline Browsing with Opera Mini, Bloglines and gMail

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Do you browse the mobile web while riding on public transit? I do most of my mobile web browsing and also catch up with email during my hour long daily commute on the BART train. I see a lot of other people doing the same thing on my train. And that’s in spite of the fact that about half of that time the train is in tunnels where there is no cellular reception. I used to wish I could download … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #19

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A listing of new mobile web sites recently added to the yeswap.com mobile portal. News/US Local by State/AK – CO San Francisco Chronicle (www.mdog.com/bookmarks/sfchronicle… ) Full text and some pictures of hundreds of articles from the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com wesite. Mobilized by mDog.com. News/US Local by State/OR-WY WFAA Dallas/Fort Worth (wfaa.com/mobile) Local News, Sports and Weather from Dallas, Texas’ channel 8. News/International EarthTimes.org (earthtimes.org/mobile) A good news site with a misleading name. I was disappointed to find that “Earthtimes.org” … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #76

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This week’s Carnival is at TwoFones.com, ably hosted by Greg Clayman. The mobile world is, as always, abuzz with change and innovation, lately it’s the GooglePhone, mobile widgets, Palm’s Foleo, mobile advertising and mobile Ajax. This Carnival has items about all of those topics plus pieces on application design and development, the mobile biz and the mobile phone’s impact on society and manners. Don’t miss it, it’s a good one. Link: Carnival of the Mobilists #76

Mobicious

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Mobicious (mtagd.com/w) is an innovative new mobile content search portal. You can search for downloadable content of various kinds; ringtones, games and wallpapers and also SMS Services and mobile web sites. Users can review and rate each content item in Mobicious and upload and share images. You can search just a single category like games or tag multiple categories and search them simultaneously. I especially like that searches can be restricted to only free content. Xen Dolev at Xellular Identity … Continue reading →