Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found On The Mobile Web #217

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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 2262 mobile sites. Sports SB Nation mobile.sbnation.com Founded a year and a half ago by several ex-AOL and Yahoo executives with seven figures worth of venture capital funding, SB Nation (for Sports Blog Nation), is a network of over 250 individual sports blogs. … Continue reading →

Developers – Demo Your Mobile App At AppCircus – Entries Are Free

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This year’s Mobile 2.0 Europe conference will feature  AppCircus, which is a great opportunity for mobile application developers. Entries are free. If your app is one of the 10 selected, you will have 3 minutes on stage to present to fellow developers and industry experts during the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference. The conference audience will nominate one app for the prestigious Mobile Premier Awards to be held during the 2011 Mobile World Congress. The developers applying for the AppCircus will … Continue reading →

Google Buzz Now Available On All Phones!

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Yesterday the Google Mobile Team announced on their blog that the Buzz mobile web client is now available on many more devices.  The post mentions support for Windows Mobile, Symbian, pre OS 2.0 Android, BlackBerry and Palm WebOS handsets.  In addition, Buzz now uses geo-location on BlackBerrys as well as the iPhone and Android. It looks like Google has done two things to make this possible. First, the rich mobile web client that Buzz uses for the iPhone and Android … Continue reading →

Taptu’s New Mobile Directory – Not Just For Touchscreens

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Mobile search company Taptu has taken the wraps off their latest project.  Billed as “The World’s largest Directory of Web Apps & Touch Friendly Sites For Owners of Mass Market Touch Screen Mobiles“, it’s modeled after the iPhone App Store  with mobile web apps and sites organized into categories like News & Weather, Music, Sport, Entertainment, Social and Technology.  The directory is searchable and features rotating galleries of  “Top Sites” and “New Sites”. You can reach the Taptu directoy by … Continue reading →

Found On the Mobile Web #216

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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 2259 mobile sites. Tech News ReadWriteWeb m.readwriteweb.com The popular tech blog  is now available in a full featured mobile friendly format at m.readwriteweb.com. The mobile view was created with and is hosted by Mobify. It includes all the articles, including images, from the … Continue reading →

Updated: Google I/O: Android 2.2 and Google TV

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Updated 25-May-2010: Froyo availability information updated including links to Froyo ROM downloads.  Corrected:  Streaming non-DRM music over the air from your PC to the phone is a future release feature and is NOT in Froyo. As expected yesterday’s Google I/O announcements were all about Android. Android OS 2.2 code named  FroYo (“Frozen Yogurt”),  and Google TV, which runs Android, were announced. Neither is available to yet. FroYo: Google is certainly raising the bar with Android 2.2. The major new features … Continue reading →

Google I/O Day One Wrap Up

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The theme of today’s I/O keynote was Google’s commitment to HTML5 and web apps. The day’s significant announcements all lend support to Google’s web centric vision of the future: Google announced that it has open sourced the  high performance VP8 video codec that Google acquired through their acquisition of On2. VP8 packaged with the Ogg Vorbis audio codec in the  Matroska  container format make up WebM, a new web video standard that is 100% open source and royalty free.  WebM … Continue reading →

What Will Google Unveil AT I/O Tomorrow?

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Photo: beussery cc Some rights reserved The big Google I/O developer event kicks off in San Francisco tomorrow. WapReview will be there trying to learn as much as possible about what Google will be doing in mobile, especially in mobile webapps and services. Watch for live updates from the keynote tomorrow on my @Yeswap account on Twitter and for a daily wrap up here on WapReview.com I expect to see some big announcements in the mobile web services area. Likely … Continue reading →