Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Highlights Of Mobilize 2011

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Mobilize Panel

Here are my top take-aways from GigaOm‘s two day Mobilize conference which wrapped up yesterday. Mobile payments are coming, but when and how? The mobile payments panel was interesting but I think it showed just how chaotic the payments space is right now. It had representatives from PayPal, Visa, Intuit and VeriFone all arguing for their own largely incompatible solutions. 2015 was mentioned by several panelists as the “year of mobile payments”, when most phones would have payment capabilities and most merchants who be ready to accept mobile payments.  To ensure … Continue reading →

The Future of Mobile From GigaOM Pro

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GigaOM’s two day Mobilize conference kicks off today here in San Francisco.  It’s sold out but can watch a live video stream at event.gigaom.com/mobilize/video/. I had planned to attend Mobilize but was called for jury duty and will probably miss most of it. On the eve of the event GigaOm has released a 119 page report titled The Future Of Mobile in which 11 GigaOm Pro analysts call out mobile trends and identify areas of mobile that are poised for growth. According … Continue reading →

Opera Mini and Mobile Update Adds Symbian Belle Support and Better Anna Keyboard Integration

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Nokia’s latest Symbian Phones, the Nokia 700 and 701 have started to ship and are already for sale in Thailand and possibly elsewhere.  These phones are running Belle, the latest iteration of the Symbian OS. As there are leaked copies of Belle firmware for the Nokia N8 floating around on the Web so many Nokia power users are also already runing the OS. However, Belle users who are also fans of Opera’s mobile browsers got a nasty surprise when they … Continue reading →

Hands On With The New UC Browser 7.9 for Symbian and Java

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UC Mobile Ltd has released a new English language version of their flagship product, the UC Browser. Although the Chinese language edition of UC Browser 8.0 has been out for some months, the new English version is a step behind at  V 7.9. It’s currently only available for Symbian S60 v1 and later and for Java ME.  Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile versions are still at 7.8 for the time being. You can get UC 7.9 by visiting wap.ucweb.com using your phone’s browser. … Continue reading →

Windows 8, Ubuntu Dual Boot On The ExoPC

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Windows 8 Developer Preview on the ExoPC

I spent part of the weekend installing the Windows 8 Developer Preview on an ExoPC X86 tablet. The ExoPC already had three versions of Linux on it; Ubuntu 11.04, the MeeGo 1.2 tablet preview and WeTab, which is a third party disto based on MeeGo. I wanted to keep the other OSs if possible. Lots of guides to dual booting Windows and Linux claim that you need to install Windows first as it will take over you hard drive and obliterate … Continue reading →

New Bolt Browser Android Beta 2 – Beta Codes Here

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Bitstream has released a second beta of their Android browser. New in this release are: Video –  New Adaptive Streaming technology for better video performance UI fixes – for a smoother UI experience Social Tab –  Share links to websites, videos and more to Facebook. As before this is a closed Beta. A Beta code is required to download it. Bitstream was nice enough to share a code exclusively for WapReview readers. The code is “wapreview“. To join the Bolt … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile for Android Updated

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   There’s a new version of Opera Mobile available in the Android Market and from Opera’s download page. It’s dubbed Opera Mobile 11.1 update 2 and according to a changelog posted on the Opera Mobile Blog it includes the following updates and fixes: Added support for Honeycomb large screen compatibility mode Added support for font styles on Samsung Galaxy devices Fix for problem with text disappearing in text fields Fix for HTML5 <audio> tag auto-play Fix for mismatched RGB colors … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #252

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Photo: Fabiana Zonca – Some rights reserved Welcome to the latest edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, a recurring showcase of the best recent blog posts on mobile topics. This month’s Carnival offers a fine selection of posts from all areas of the mobile ecosystem. In The End of Cross-Platform Mobile Operating Systems Richard Monson-Haefel at Ambient Strategic Mobility argues that tightly integrated mobile ecosystems à la iOS are the key to success for mobile platforms. Agree or disagree? Sachendra Yadav at Technology, … Continue reading →