Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Making Money In Mobile – Issues and Strategy

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Photo: Some rights reserved by AMagill One of the recurring themes at this week’s Mobile 2.0 conference was how exactly do you make money in mobile? It was the topic of a couple of panels but no clear answer emerged. In talking with other attendees during breaks I found a fairly high level of frustration about revenue opportunities in mobile. It’s not easy for free lance  app developers and mobile web publishers to make a living from their work. Most … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 Business Day – The Yahoo Phone and Innovation From Africa and Asia

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Yesterday’s session of the Mobile 2.0 conference was dubbed the “Business Day“.  The focus was on where the mobile industry is headed and how startups, mobile publishers  and other entrepreneurs can profit from the rapid cycle of  that has characterized mobile since its infancy. It was a long day with over a dozen presentations and panels.  Rather than trying to cover every one of them which would make for a very long post, I’m going to focus on the one … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 Developer Day – The Rise Of The Web

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I attended the Mobile 2.0 Developer Day in Mountain View today. It was the sort of great event I’ve come to expect from the Mobile 2.0 team of Gregory Gorman, Mike Rowehl, Daniel Appelquist, Peter Vesterbacka and Rudy De Waele,  a fast paced day filled with lively presentations and panels. Mobile 2.0 is relatively unique  among mobile events in being a grass roots operation organized by people working in the mobile field or as Daniel Appelquist, put it “By industry … Continue reading →

How to Add Search Engines To Opera Mini 5

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One thing that new users of Opera Mini seem to have trouble with is adding custom search engines. Questions about adding search engines come up all the time on the Opera Mini Forum.  It’s easy to understand why, the process is not hard but it’s also not particularly intuitive or obvious and neither the official Opera Mini FAQ or the in-app help explain it. To fill the gap, I’ve created this little tutorial with images for both the touch screen … Continue reading →

The State Of MeeGo – An Update From the MeeGo Developer Day

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The big Nokia World annual conference wrapped up today in London. There were a lot of great announcements; for developers there’s a new Qt SDK for Symbian and S40 and  code signing is now free for Java and native apps There are new versions of Ovi Maps and the Ovi Store for Symbian^3 phones. The Ovi Store now has in-app puchasing.  On the hardware side, six bluetooth headsets, a charging plate, a new Touch and Type S40 phone and three … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #230

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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 2337 mobile sites. Tech StackMobile stackmobile.com A front-end to the StackExchange network of sites optimized for display on SmartPhones and web-enabled devices. StackExchange started with StackOverflow, a wiki-based user-driven help site for software developers that uses a system of voting and reputation to … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 5.1 For Windows Mobile Released

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It’s been a long time coming but today Opera Software announced that the native Windows Mobile version of Opera Mini 5.1 is out of Beta and available immediately for all Windows Mobile 2003 SE, 5.x and 6.x handsets. Download it from m.opera.com using your phone’s browser or visit opera.com/mobile/download/pc/ with your PC to download the .cab file for sideloading. According to the announcement, this release includes: NEW FEATURES Ability to set Opera Mini as default browser on the device. Support … Continue reading →

Google Finance Mobile Web Update Is Broken On Many Platforms

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A new iOS and Android optimized mobile web version of Google Finance ( www.google.com/m/finance)  was launched a couple of weeks ago.  It looks (image above, left) and works great on the target devices and also on my Samsung Wave Bada phone,which I used to create the screen shots. However, the update has made mobile web version of Finance unusable for anyone using anything else.Visiting the site with Opera Mini, Opera Mobile or Symbian Webkit still brings up the legacy version … Continue reading →