Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

DW-WORLD

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Deutsche Welle or ‘DW’ is Germany’s independent but publicly funded international broadcaster. Somewhat similar to the BBC International Service or the Voice of America, DW broadcasts shortwave radio news, sports and cultural content in 29 languages and satellite TV in four; English, German, Spanish and Arabic. Like the BBC, DW has a comprehensive Internet site, DW-WORLD.DE again in 29 languages. Of course I wouldn’t be witting about DW-WORLD unless they had an interesting mobile web site. The mobile site is … Continue reading →

Mobile SeatGuru.com

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SeatGuru.com now has a mobile site. Thanks to Kevin Tofel at James Kendrick’s jkOnTheRun.com for discovering this site and sharing it. SeatGuru, which has been on the full web for five years, tells travelers something they never know enough about until too late – airline seats. The site has tables comparing seat width and pitch and in-flight amenities for all the aircraft types in the fleets of 29 airlines. The best part of SeatGuru are the detailed seating charts which … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 31

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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Rafe Blandford at All About Symbian. There are several new voices in the latest Carnival and just a great selection of articles on the mobile world. AAS is a site worth checking out, by the way, whether you have a Symbian Phone or just want to learn more about the most popular Smartphone OS. Best of all, Rafe and crew have a first rate mobile site at http://www.allaboutsymbian.com which includes virtually … Continue reading →

Big Pond World Cup

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Another day, another World Cup site. Actually, this is a very good one from Australia’s Big Pond, a major ISP down under which is owned by the Australian telecom giant, Telstra. Big Pond has an attractive mobile home page, http://wap.telstra.com/wap/ although much of the content is links to external sites like CNN, Yahoo, etc. For the World Cup, Big Pond has commissioned Sportall to produce an original mobile site. On the right device, it’s very attractive mobile web design and … Continue reading →

World Cup

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Inspired by Martin’s post about the official FIFA World Cup mobile web site, I went looking for other World Cup related mobile content. What follows is a list of what’s out there right now. To help you find these sites on your phone I’ve put up a World Cup page on the yeswap.com mobile portal with links to these sites and will add any more that I see or hear about. For those of you (mostly Americans) who have no … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #30

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It’s time for another Carnival of the Mobilists. This week the Midway has set up at DarlaMack.com. In her role as Carnival hostess, Darla has assembled a great selection of the best recent posts on mobile subjects for your enjoyment and edification. The Carnival is a weekly gathering of blog entries focusing on the mobile world. Visit it here. Do you write about mobile topics? If you do, consider joining the Carnival. If you need an incentive to participate, the … Continue reading →

Driving Directions

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You’re in a rental car lost in a strange city with an inadequate or no map. What do you do? Do you ask someone for directions or drive around aimlessly hoping to spot a landmark you remember? Or do you pull out your mobile phone and enter the cross streets of the where you are and the address that you are looking for and receive turn by turn directions that speed to you destination? This review covers several mobile web … Continue reading →

Salon.com Mobile

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Salon.com is a pioneer online news magazine. It was founded in 1995 at the beginning of the Internet boom and has always featured well written articles on news, politics, the arts and technology as well as book and movie reviews. Salon has struggled to survive economically and since 2001 has limited access to a portion of its content to paying subscribers only. Salon is also a pioneer on the mobile web, launching a PDA edition in 2001. It was aimed … Continue reading →