Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

The Mobile Technology Weblog: Mobile Edition

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Update: Creative-Weblogging has fixed most of the browser detection issues with their mobile sites making much of what I wrote below no longer true. Opera Mini and Netfront are now recognized as mobile devices. See Creative-Weblogging CEO Torsten’s comments. It sounds like he is committed to making the CW sites mobile friendly. If you have a mobile browser that’s not getting the mobile edition of one of the Creative-Weblogging sites please leave a comment and I’ll try to pass it … Continue reading →

Mopitopia – “Mobile Links That Don’t Suck”

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Mobitopia 2.0 (mobitopia.com) is to the mobile web what del.icio.us is the the PC web, a place to store and share links to interesting sites. If you aren’t familiar with the huge Web 2.0 success that is del.icio.us, this Wikipedia article will get you up to speed. Mobitopia’s motto is “Mobile Links That Don’t Suck (TM)“. Seeing as anyone can register and post public links to the site there’s also the admonishment, “Please don’t add mobile links just to add … Continue reading →

Carnival 58

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Photo by Rick Takagi Some rights reserved. This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Thomas Landspurg at Tomsoft.com. I’d never been to Tomsoft before this Carnival but I like the site and have added it to my Google Reader. It’s an interesting site with an emphasis on mobile Java. Over a third of this week’s Carnival items are about Apple’s iPhone – a game changing device, too bad it’s so closed. Congratulations to Ajit who won Post of … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web

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A weekly posting of sites recently discovered on the mobile web. These sites have been added to the YesWAP.com Mobile Portal and to Wap Review‘s directory of mobile sites. This week’s Found on the Mobile Web sites listed by their WapReview/YesWAP category (in bold): News/US Local by State/ The Cape Cod Times, is a daily from Massachusetts’ well know summer resort area. The PDA style mobile edition (www.capecodonline.com/avantgo/) features about 40 articles from the paper in text-only handheld form. All … Continue reading →

JumpTap – Pure Mobile Search

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Jumptap is a mobile search, advertising and content delivery (think ring tones and games) startup that got $22 million in round C funding recently. Their search business provides a “white label” search box on mobile carrier portals. Other white label search companies include FAST, InfoSpace and Medio. Compared to Google or Yahoo, white label search vendors claim to generate more revenue for the carrier by sharing a larger percentage of advertising dollars and by giving prominent placement in search results … Continue reading →

iPhone Impressions

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I saw the iPhone today at Macworld. It was playing a self running demo while slowly rotating inside a glass cylinder on a pedestal. There were two such displays on the show floor each guarded by at least two Apple reps and gathering 10 deep crowds of camera phone wielding fans. A very impressive device. The screen is gorgeous, vivid and incredibly sharp. The new multi-touch UI, if it works and is only half as intuitive and learn-able as it … Continue reading →

Macworld Keynote Live on Mobile?

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Macworld kicks off here in San Francisco tomorrow with the Steve Jobs Keynote at 9 AM PST (GMT – 8).  I’m not really a Mac person so I’m not going to pay $315 for the privilege of lining up at 3AM to get in.  But Jobs always announces something cool and this year it might be a phone. And if it is a phone from Apple will really shake up the mobile industry, especially if they sell it direct and … Continue reading →

Carnival Time!

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Photo by Rick Takagi Some rights reserved. After a long holiday break, the Carnival of the Mobilists is back. I’m honored to host it here at Wap Review with a great selection of posts from all areas of the mobile scene. History and Prognostication: It’s the time of the year to review where we’ve been and what’s ahead. Mad4mobilePhones‘ Patrick Altoft highlights a prediction by researcher Dr Martin Illsley that 2007 will be the year for complaining by picture message. … Continue reading →