Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Free Passes For The Muther! of All Hackathons

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WIP, the Wireless Industry Partnership, is holding an event modestly labeled “The Muther! of All Hackathons + DevCon” on Friday, June 24 through Saturday, June 25, 2011 at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA. The DevCon portion of the event runs on both days and will include presentations, UnPanels and beginner and master mobile app development classes. The Hackthon will give developers a chance to work individually or in teams to create something cool and compete for prizes in … Continue reading →

New Carnival of the Mobilists at Francisco Kattan’s Blog

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This month’s Carnival of the Mobilists is now available on Francisco Kattan’s Blog. The Carnival is a showcase of the best recent blog posts on mobile topics that is hosted on a different mobile themed blog each month. Reading it is a great way to keep up with what’s happening in mobile and to discover new new blogs and bloggers This Carnival features a number of posts of interest to mobile developers. Topics covered include whether your app should be free … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 244

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Tampere 1918

Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2366 mobile sites. Travel-Transit/Destination Guides Tampere 1918 zones.zonear.com/tampere1918 Interactive mobile guide to the new “Tampere 1918” exhibit at Museum Centre Vapriikki in Tampere, Finland . The exhibition covers the tragic Finnish Civil War of 1918 in which 40,000 people were killed in four … Continue reading →

Hands On With Bolt Browser’s xAD Local Search

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xAD Sushi Results

Bolt browser recently started returning results for local searches from mobile local search and advertising company xAD. According to xAD the partnership will give users more relevant results and added features like reviews, offers, maps and directions. Currently live in the US only, xAD results will soon start appearing for Bolt users in Germany, U.K. and France. I gave xAD a try with a few local search queries.  Results were generally pretty good. For most queries xAD returned results that were as … Continue reading →

New Browser Releases: Opera Mini 6 for iOS, Bolt 2.51 and Opera Mobile 11 for MeeGo N900 DE

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Can’t see the video: Click here to view on YouTube This week was a busy one for mobile browser vendors with three new releases. The most notable is the long awaited Opera Mini 6 for the iPhone and iPad which was announced and demoed at CTIA in March and is finally available.  I wonder how much of the delay was due to Apple’s paternalistic app aproval process? New features in the iOS release include: Updated design with a fresh new … Continue reading →

MeeGo Conference – Steady OS Progress But No New Handsets

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My mobile dream is a handset with the full power of desktop Linux and X-Server. I saw that realized with Nokia’s Maemo. The N900 was an amazing device when it was introduced 3 years ago. But today it’s starting to show its age in areas like performance, screen technology and unfashionable thickness. I was very excited to have the opportunity to attend the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco because  I expected that the N900’s successor would released or at least … Continue reading →

Running The WeTab MeeGo OS On The ExoPC

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The WeTab is a MeeGo tablet from Munich based  4tiitoo AG. The tablet’s hardware is similar to the ExoPC MeeGo tablet that I got at an Intel developer event recently.  Both tablets are manufactured by Pegatron, a division of ASUS. The only hardware differences are that the WeTab has less RAM (1GB vs 2GB) and a smaller solid state drive (choice of 16 GB or 32 GB vs 64 GB) and the fact that the WeTab can optionally have a 3G … Continue reading →

New UC Browser 7.7 For Symbian, Windows and Java – Touch UI and Performance Enhancements

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Last week, UC Browser (formerly UCWEB) launched a new English language edition of UC Browser 7.7 for Symbian V.1-5, Java ME and Windows Mobile touchscreen V.5.0 and latter.  Download it from www.ucweb.com (PC) or wap.ucweb.com (mobile). The Symbian V.5 download also works on Symbian^3 phones like the N8. New features claimed for this release include: Improved server side compression and caching that reduces data traffic by 30% compared to the previous version of UC Browser. Better mobile page rendering and support … Continue reading →