Earlier this week WOMWorld Nokia sent me to Berlin for Microsoft Tech.Ed Europe. Naturally I needed to have data service on my N8 for the trip. My T-Mobile US prepaid SIM doesn’t allow voice or data roaming anywhere outside of North America and even if it did I can’t afford the obscene rates that US operators charge for roaming. So I did what I always do when traveling internationally which is to try and buy a local prepaid SIM as … Continue reading
I just got back from Berlin where I attended Microsoft Tech.Ed Europe along with Mike Maddaloni (thehotiron.com) and Craig Richards (geekcomputers.co.uk) as the guests of WOMWorld/Nokia. Tech.Ed is a series of annual conferences that Microsoft holds around the world. It’s primarily a technical training event but there are also high level keynote sessions covering Microsoft and partner’s products, services and strategies and a large Expo floor where many companies have booths promoting their development tools and enterprise products and services. … Continue reading
I’ll be at the Microsoft Tech.Ed Conference in Berlin Tuesday and Wednesday as the guest of WOMWorld and Nokia. I was really surprised when I got an email from WOMWorld a little over a week ago offering to send me to Berlin for the conference. Totally unexpected and wonderful. I’m looking forward to seeing Berlin for the first time too. I’m not sure what Nokia has in store for me at Tech-Ed. They are a sponsor of the Microsoft conference, … Continue reading
UC Mobile Limited launched an English language version of UC Browser 7.4 today. It’s available now at ucweb.com (mobile: wap.ucweb.com) for Symbian 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th editions, Java and Windows Mobile. The Symbian 5th edition version also works on Symbian^3 phones like the N8. You need to download it from the UC site as the Ovi Store still lists the older 7.2 version. Android and iPhone releases of 7.4 are expected soon. The official press release has screenshots, performance … Continue reading
Opera released an update to the Opera Mini 5.1 client for Android last week. It’s version 5.1.22460 and according to Opera changes include: Adjusted font sizes. Font fixes for Chinese and Japanese, so speed on pages with these fonts should be greatly improved. Improved stability. Improved input for Sony Ericsson X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro. Chinese users can now download the application from the Android Market. A bunch of bug fixes. I installed the update on a T-Mobile MyTouch … Continue reading
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 2348 mobile sites. Tech News Sites and Blogs Wired m.wired.com Wired magazine’s slick new mobile site features most of the content of Wired.com in a very attractive touch mobile format that takes some of its design cues from the magazine’s acclaimed (and pricey) … Continue reading
Yesterday, Opera Software released a Beta version of Opera Mini 5.1 as a native Symbian (.sis file) app. It’s available for Symbian S60 2nd and third edition, Symbian^1 and Symbian^3. Opera lists the following features of the new version: Huge start up time improvements. Lightning fast page load times. Improved scrolling performance. Integration with your device’s native input. Option to choose default access point – no more annoying connection dialogs Now supporting more devices than ever. Download the new version … Continue reading
At the Sprint Developer Conference today, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse (image above) introduced what the operator is calling the “Browser-VAS” ecosystem. It’s supposed to let developers create and monetize browser based apps. Browser-VAS is built around Openwave‘s Integra cloud service. Hopefully, the service will have a more user friendly name when it launches in the first half of 2011. The apps appear in a toolbar that users can optionally add to the browser. They can then “install” free and paid … Continue reading