Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Full-Web Mobile Browsers

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Mobile browsers designed to display any web page, often called “Full-Web” mobile browsers, are starting to drive a significant amount of traffic to both mobile and non-mobile sites. Smartphones usually have a full-web browser like Opera Mobile, Netfront, Palm Blazer, Mobile Internet Explorer or the Nokia Mini Map Browser. Smartphones sales have broken into double digits and it’s reasonable to expect Smartphone users to use the Web much more than those with more humble devices. Opera Mini makes a big … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #9

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly Wap Review feature showcasing sites recently added to the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory. Entertainment/Mobile Video Nokia Video Links: videolinks.nokia.com Recent Nokia phones come with this bookmark pre-configured. It’s a pretty comprehensive list of mobile video sites both Nokia sites and third party ones. YouTube Mobile: (m.youtube.com/?client=ytdemo) First spotted by Symbian-Freak, as a link on the Nokia Video Links page, this looks like the soft launch of YouTube’s mobile effort. … Continue reading →

Tappity = Mobile Del.icio.us?

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Tappity is a new mobile social bookmarking site. This is a genre that didn’t exist a year ago and now has at least four players, WapTags (review), Mobleo (review), Mopitopia (review) and now Tappity.com (mobile – mobile.tappity.com). Unlike the other three, with Tappity you do all your tagging from your desktop browser, there is no way to tag or bookmark from the mobile site. I think mobile tagging is an essential feature. I want to be able to tag mobile … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists at Software Everywhere

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David Beers has rebooted the Carnival with an awesome collection of fresh posts in Carnival of the Mobilists version 63.01 Don’t miss this edition, it’s one of the best ever. Highlights for me include C. Enrique Ortiz’ Post of the Week winning look into the future of mobile applications and Krisse’s demolition of the whole concept of subsidized, locked phones. But don’t take my word for it, check out the Carnival for yourself at Software Everywhere

New CNN International Site

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I’ve criticized CNN in the past for their policy of blocking users whose carrier is not a CNN “partner” or if they are using Opera Mini. It looks like that may be changing. CNN together with Ericsson have launched cnnmobile.com, a slick new mobile news site targeted at users in the NEMA (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America) markets but seemingly accessible from any IP address. Like the still restricted by IP address CNN US mobile site at mobile.cnn.com, … Continue reading →

Mini 3.1 and iDEN

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The official Opera Mini Blog has an item by Lunkwill, one of the Opera Mini developers, announcing that the latest version of the awesome Java ME based web browser is officially supported on recent iDEN (Nextel, Telus Mike, etc.) phones. The article includes complete instructions on the, as Lunkwill puts it, “hacky” process of installing Java apps on these phones. You have to use a free Motorola developer tool and a data cable as well as renaming the install files … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #8

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly Wap Review feature showcasing sites added to the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory. Business/News silicontap.com: (silicontap.com/index.xhtml) A business and technology news site aimed at investors and venture capitalists and is focused on Silicon Valley startups. The mobile edition contains all the stories from the free web site. Silicontap also has a $25/month premium edition which as detailed profiles of covered companies. The premium edition is not on the mobile web … Continue reading →

Mobile Traffic Maps

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You can’t help but notice those colored traffic overlays on Yahoo, Windows Live and Local TV Maps. I think it’s a great idea. Using data from sensors embedded in the pavement of highways in major metropolitan areas these sites show a road as green if traffic is moving at 50 mph or better, yellow for 25 to 50 mph and red for less than 25. Great for estimating when you have to leave for an appointment and for choosing the … Continue reading →