Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Bing’s Rich Mobile Makeover

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Bing Mobile Homepage

    The mobile edition of Microsoft’s Bing search engine (m.bing.com) was updated recently with a bunch of new features borrowed from Bing’s desktop page and Google’s mobile search webapp including: Background image of the day with floating “Explore” menu Search suggestions appear as you type Location enabled on Android and iOS Image search results as a grid of thumbnails Tabbed results pages with tabs for All, Images, Shopping, Local etc. The new interface shows up on the iPhone and iPad … Continue reading →

Linkedin’s HTML5 Webapp Is A Disappointment

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Until recently LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals, had a basic but usable mobile web site at m.linkedin.com. It worked with most mobile browsers and let you build and manage your network of contacts, search the LinkedIn user base to find prospects, jobs and employees and send LinkedIn invites. Recently LinkedIn’s mobile webapp was updated. According to an interview on VentureBeat, the new one makes extensive use of HTML5 and node.js and shares much of its code with Linkedin’s … Continue reading →

My Favorite Mobile Event, Mobile 2.0 Is Almost Here

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Update: the $35% off Mobile 2.0 registration for WapReview readers offer has been extended through Aug. 28th. Just enter “friends” as the promotion code on the registration home page to get the discount. My favorite mobile event, Mobile 2.0, is coming up in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept 1st, which is only two weeks away. The Mobile 2.0 organizers; Daniel Appelquist, Gregory Gorman and Tony Fish somehow always manage to bring together some of the biggest names in the mobile industry … Continue reading →

Google Acquires Motorola, Spoils TabCo Launch

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Droid Moto

Today was supposed  to be TabCo‘s big day when the curtains were pulled back to reveal a new tablet manufacturer whose  revolutionary product would relegate Apple and Android to the dustbin. Well Google apparently had other ideas (not really, I don’t think they care a wiff about TabCo) and annouced their intent to aquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billon. Make no mistake, the Google Motorola deal is strictly about getting a hold of Motorola’s portfolio of 17, 000 patents. That combined with Google’s existing 7, 500 … Continue reading →

Blogger Mobile Templates Now Support Opera Mini, Symbian Anna, N9 and BlackBerry OS 6.0

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I covered Google Blogger’s Beta mobile page templates in depth when they were rolled out last January.  They work well and look great and go a long way toward making the often unruly Blogger sites usable with a mobile browser.  At that time I lamented that the only iPhones and bada and Android devices were detected and served the mobile formatted pages. You can force Blogger to use the mobile template by appending ?m=1 to the end of the URL of any page … Continue reading →

UC Browser for BlackBerry Release Candidate Download Available Now

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  UC Mobile Ltd is on the verge of releasing their first version of the UC Browser for BlackBerrys. You can grab a copy of the release candidate at uctest.ucweb.com:9415/test/. The download page uses WML so you need to use your BlackBerry browser or another WML capable browser like Opera desktop or Opera Mini to be able to view it. There are separate download files for Blackberry OS 4.2+, 4.5+ and touchscreen OS 4.7+ BlackBerrys. I don’t have a BlackBerry anymore so … Continue reading →

Google Plus Web Apps For Every Mobile Browser

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Google Plus, the search giant’s latest try at social media, seems to be taking off. I’m not going to try to explain Google Plus here.  If you need an introduction to it a couple of good ones are Google’s interactive tutorial and and Paul Boutin’s clear description of the basics.  This post is a look at the available options  for using Plus on a mobile device. The richest Google Plus experience is with the official Android app which requires Android 2.1 or latter. Almost … Continue reading →

Advertising Age Mobile Site Review

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AdAge Mobile

Here’s a brief look at the mobile edition of Advertising Age, a.k.a., AdAge, the venerable (founded in 1930) weekly news magazine covering the global advertising business. The well organized AdAge mobile site at m.adage.com includes the full text for hundreds of stories and articles,  blogs and columns, from the desktop AdAge site and the print edition. I like that registered readers can comment on stories from the mobile site. Disappointingly, registration requires going to the full site and filling out a form with no less than 14 … Continue reading →