Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Twitter Mobile WebApp and Browser OAuth Scorecard

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It’s been three months since the “OAuthcalypse” when Twitter started requiring that third party apps use OAuth to access the Twitter APIs. OAuth is generally a good thing, as it means you no longer have to share your Twitter credentials with every app that wants to access Twitter on your behalf, greatly reducing the risk that a rouge app might start spamming or posting malicious tweets in your name. Apps can still misuse  your Twitter account but if one does  … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web – Cyber Monday Edition

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Tomorrow is Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year. It’s when e-tailers offer special deals to lure office serfs in using their employer’s time and bandwidth to score bargain holiday gifts. If you don’t have access to a PC at your workplace or you’d just rather not risk incurring your boss’s wrath, you can do a your Cyber Monday shopping with a web capable mobile phone. The WapReview Mobile Directory lists 89 sites in its Shopping section … Continue reading →

The Best US Prepaid Data Deals

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This post is no longer updated! Please visit PrepaidPhoneNews.com to read the latest version. Last update: 26-Nov-2010. What’s new: Prepaid Android phones from Virgin Mobile, Cricket and MetroPCS, T-Mobile Web Day Pass, overpriced monthly prepaid smartphone plans from Verizon, $0.10/min calls on AT&T prepaid. Prepaid mobile plans are a great way to save on voice and SMS but what about data? Using data on prepaid here in the U.S. will require making some compromises. Reasonably priced prepaid data options are … Continue reading →

New Opera Mobile 10.1 Is Fast and (Mostly) Stable On the N8

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The non-Beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian was released today.  It supports S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th edition (aka Symbian^1) and Symbian^3 devices. Like all of the Opera 10 Symbian variants, it needs a fair amount of free RAM, at least 40 MB and  70 MB or more  for best results. Download it from opera.com/mobile/download/ or m.opera.com (mobile). The main changes in this release are said to be increased stability and more localized versions.  There’s a  full change … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #235

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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 2346 mobile sites. Entertainment and Leisure My Santa Talk m.mysantatalk.com Ad-free, child safe site lets kids talk to a Santa bot and view cutesy animated Christmas gifs. Content: Usability: Mobile Tech Andrea Trasatti’s tech notes and more blog.trasatti.it Personal tech blog from one … Continue reading →

Symbian’s Robust Enterprise Security

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L to R; Me, Mike Maddaloni, Craig Richards,  Teemu Lehtonen. At Microsoft Tech.Ed in Berlin last week, Mike Maddaloni (thehotiron.com), Craig Richards  (geekcomputers.co.uk) and I sat down with Nokia’s Teemu Lehtonen.  The topic was Symbian security, something Teemu knows a thing or two about having worked primarily in that area for most of the 12 years he’s been with Nokia. Teemu outlined the Symbian security model which he called the most secure in the industry. It starts with the hardware. … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile for Android

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I finally got a chance to try the  Android Beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1 that was released last week.  It’s available in the Android Market for devices running Android OS 1.6 and later.  There’s a special Android OS 1.5 build that’s only available directly from Opera. If you never used Opera Mobile before the first thing you will notice is that it’s look and feel are almost identical to that of Opera Mini.  Appearances are deceiving in this case … Continue reading →

Ovi Maps, Nokia’s Killer App – Made In Berlin

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On my recent trip to Berlin for Tech.Ed I was really impressed with the performance, stability and ease of use of the latest 3.06 Beta of Ovi Maps.  I’d used it a little before the trip and knew it was pretty good and that it could work offline. I though that might come in handy in Germany where I my T-Mobile pay-as-you-go SIM wouldn’t roam.  So before I left San Francisco I loaded the Berlin/Brandenberg map set to my N8 … Continue reading →