Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found On The Mobile Web #215

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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 2249 mobile sites. Gossip CelebEdge m.celebedge.ca Billing itself as “The Cutting Edge about Celebs, Stars & Artists“, Canada’s biggest celebrity site has celebrity news, photos, games, gossip, and drama about and from your favorite stars and personalities. Content: Usability: The YBF m.theybf.com “The … Continue reading →

Why I Still Use Bloglines

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I love what Google is doing for mobile; pushing the limits of device and OS capabilities with Android, championing HTML5 and the Web as the future of mobile applications and adopting a “mobile first” philosophy where new services are rolled out before or at the same time as their desktop counterparts. But I do have a bone to pick with the way one of Google most popular web services, Google Reader, works on mobile.  I really wish I could use … Continue reading →

Taptu: Mobile Web Growing Twice as Fast as Expected, Outstrips iPhone Appstore.

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Image: Taptu Mobile search company Taptu released the fourth in a series of “State of the Touch Friendly Web” reports today.  The reports track mobile web trends and showcase over 100 new Mobile Touch Web sites each month. In the latest report (PDF) Taptu compares the size and growth rate of its Mobile Touch Web index with that of the iPhone and Android appstores.   By Taptu’s count there are currently: 440,100 Mobile Touch Web Sites 185,000 apps in the iPhone … Continue reading →

Don’t Miss It! Mobile 2.0 Europe – June 17, 2010

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The European version of my favorite mobile conference, Mobile 2.0 will be held June 17th in Barcelona at the beautiful new campus of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra . While I won’t be able to make it to Barcelona this year, I’ve attended several of the past  Mobile 2.0 events and found them extremely worthwhile. Somehow the Mobile 2.0 organizers always seems to get  the best speakers and host the liveliest panels.  And it all happens in a fast paced format … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #214

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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 2246 mobile sites. City and Campus Guides nextstop www.nextstop.com/m2/ Nextstop describes itself as a “…community effort to build a catalog of all the best things to do, places to go, and experiences to try anywhere in the world” It’s a mobile webapp for … Continue reading →

Updated: The Good and the Bad – New Prepaid Data Options From Sprint, T-Mobile

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Updated 16-May-2010; new Virgin Mobile plans can be used with any Virgin Mobile US handset. One thing that’s been holding back the adoption of  mobile web services in the US is the lack of affordable data,  or in some cases,  any data at all on prepaid mobile plans.  It looks like that is about to change with both T-Mobile and Sprint expected to roll out new data options for prepaid users this month. Sprint’s new offer looks pretty good.  Starting … Continue reading →

New Opera Mini 5 Release Fixes RTL, DST and Text Entry Bugs

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Today the Opera Mini Blog announced a “silent” release of Opera Mini.  I’m not sure how anything announced on the corporate blog is silent, but no matter this appears to be a pretty significant release. It adds 32 new languages and fixes several notable bugs, specifically: RSS feed links should now appear at the top of pages again. RTL (Right To Left) languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, etc. ) should now display properly on phones with supported fonts. Problems with daylight … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #213

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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 2236 mobile sites. Comics Stripr dbelement.com/stripr/ View your favorite daily comics in your mobile browser with Stripr. You can customize your Stripr by choosing from over 150 different strips including geek classics like xkcd, Dilbert and Apple Geeks as well as mainstream comics … Continue reading →