Lately I’ve been playing around with my old Sony Clie SJ30 which runs Palm OS 4.1. I managed to tether it to an equally old Motorola i50sx iDEN mobile phone and soon I was browsing the web on the “big” 320×320 px screen during my commute on the train. That was pretty cool. I tried a bunch of different Palm browsers from the ancient (but free) text only Palmscape and Eudora Web to several commercial browsers, the best of which … Continue reading
This weeks Carnival at C. Enrique Ortiz’ Mobility W e b l o g has a bumper crop of great articles. Daniel Taylor at The Mobile Enterprise Weblog on the issues corporate IT folks face when users bring their mobile devices inside the firewall. Martin Sauter of Martin’s Mobile Technology Page reviews a new book from Nokia on maximizing the benefits of mobiles in business. Darla Mack on her blog, Day’s in the Life of a Mobile Diva writes “Are … Continue reading
Go2 is a site with great potential marred by a clumsy UI and somewhat slow response. Still if you are patient and learn it’s quirks it can be very useful. It’s location based search that since 1999 has worked on any phone. And it’s worked in spite of the mobile providers reluctance to expose their LBS data to mobile web developers or users. Of course, the reason it works is because it relies on the old fashioned method of the … Continue reading
The latest Carnival is up at Martin’s Mobile Technology Page. Each week the Carnival showcases the best submitted articles on mobile topics. Included are: Kelly Goto at gotomobile, Integrated mobile research & testing Carlo Longino on MobHappy, Selling Dollars for a Dime C. Enrique Ortiz – Mobility W e b l o g, MNVOs and The Demographic Problem Jim Downing at Smartmobs, The Phone is the Key Stuart Mudie on Blethers.com, Lifeblog 2.0 adds context to mobile multimedia content … Continue reading
For a long time mobile visionaries have been heralding the imminent arrival of Location Based Services (LBS), and the revolutionary mobile applications and services that they will make possible. Since the beginning of this year, US cellular operators have been legally required under the provisions of E911-Phase II to furnish real time geolocation data to emergency agencies when users call 911, the nation-wide emergency telephone number. The requirements specify that the systems be able to locate the user with an … Continue reading
Emily at textually.org is hosting this week’s 17th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists. This edition features some great posts loaded with insight and information concerning the mobile web. Daniel Taylor – Mobile Enterprise – Something more important than BlackBerry Xen Dolev, Xellular Identity – Try to Look Natural… and Action Thomas Landspurg on TomSoft – The benefits of Fragmentation…. Russell Buckley at MobHappy – Generation M Justin Oberman of mopocket – Phone Fusion: Unified Theory Meets Telephony Rudy … Continue reading
Google launched a mobile version of their Google News Tuesday. The neat thing about Google’s new mobile service is that the way it works is not only good for users but also benefits the mobile web as a whole. The full-sized Google News site has been around for three years but only recently moved out of the public beta stage. Unlike most news portals which employ flesh and blood editors to select stories from the various wire services, other sites … Continue reading
This week’s Carnival hosts, Kelly Goto and Rudy De Waele at gotomobile, have selected a great collection of articles. Visit the Carnival of the Mobilists at gotomobile. The Carnival’s goal is to showcase the best recent writing on mobile topics. Everyone writing about any aspect of mobility is welcome to submit an article to the Carnival. Visit MobHappy for submission instructions and guidelines.