Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Mojeo – LBS on any phone

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I saw Mojeo presented at the Mobile 2.0 Event in San Francisco Monday as part of a Launchpad presentation spotlighting new services. I wasn’t too impressed with the presentation which was brief and lacking in details, but I did jot down “mojeo.mobi, location based search – any phone, add mashups”. Today I took a look at Mojeo.mobi which is the mobile site and the PC site, www.mojeo.mobi. I found a clever and useful but definitely beta service that has the … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 52

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The Carnival is back at one of my favorite mobile sites, All About Symbian. Rafe Blandford has put together the best mobile related blog posts of the past week so that you can get all the good stuff in one place. This week’s Carnival has posts on topics as varied as new technologies like mobile Flash and Ajax, global handset market share, hardware and software reviews and the use of text messaging in a political campaign. Whatever mobile subject area … Continue reading →

Are You .Mobi Ready?

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dotMobi, the registrar for the new .mobi top level domain now has a developers page at dev.mobi with quite a few resources for mobile web developers. The page has both mobile and PC versions. There are forums, articles, howtos, links to various mobile emulators and to browser vendor’s developer sites and a brand new Mobile Ready Validator which is at mr.dev.mobi. Like the online validators I wrote about here, The MobiReady one checks your page for valid markup, but it … Continue reading →

Wap Review Mobile Search Box

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I’ve added a search form to Wap Review Mobile. I was starting to have trouble finding my older posts and I figured my readers might appreciate being able to search the mobile blog too. On the PC edition of Wap Review I just use Google’s Site Search and I would have liked to do the same for mobile. Unfortunately, Google’s TOS, at least as I interpret it, doesn’t let you create your own search form which calls the mobile search … Continue reading →

NBA Mobile

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The NBA (National Basketball Association) season started Nov 1st. NBA.com has a mobile site at nba.mobi that lets you follow the games on the mobile web. It’s an OK site but I was hoping for a little more. NBA.com Mobile has league news, scores, schedules and statistics. The news items are mostly post-game wrap ups and are pretty short – just a sentence or two. The scores page lists all of today’s games with current scores, quarter and minutes to … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 3.0 beta

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Update;  The latest release of Opera Mini is version 3.1,  read about it here. There is a new beta of the next release of Opera Mini available for download. I’m sure you’ve heard of Opera Mini, but in case you haven’t, it’s a free Java ME browser that is faster, more capable and has a more efficient UI than almost any of the browsers that come pre-installed on phones. There’s a page of information about the new release and download … Continue reading →

Slate Mobile

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Slate (mobile.slate.com) is an online news and lifestyle magazine originally owned by Microsoft but now the property of the Washington Post. Slate is quite similar to Salon.com in it’s style and the type of articles it features. The mobile edition contains selected articles, features and columns from the full site . Although not the full Slate, the mobile version has quite a bit of content. There are 20 articles from today’s coverage plus about the same number for each of … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists at tarek speaks mobile

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Tarek Abu-Esber is hosting this week’s Carnival at his very interesting blog, tarek speaks mobile. This is another case where the Carnival has lead me to a great but new (to me) site. Tarek’s emphasis is the Symbian S60 platform and his site is full of mouth watering images of the latest hardware (that we will probably never see here in the US – sigh) along with insightful articles on hardware, software, the mobile business and it’s future. The latest … Continue reading →