The Six Best Mobile March Madness Sites

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

March Madness, the NCAA College Basketball Championships has begun. The men’s tournament started yesterday Mar. 16th and the women’s series begins on Saturday. Both feature the top 65 US college teams in a 3 week long single elimination tournament. March Madness is easily the most popular college sports event in the country. I think its appeal is due to the large number of teams, which increases the chances of your alma mater participating, and for gamblers, the lure of so … Continue reading →

Updated: Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 Final Released

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Opera today released “Final” (non-Beta) versions of Opera Mini 5 (image above, left) and Opera Mobile 10 (image above, right) for most platforms. Only the just released Opera Mini 5 for Android and the native Windows Mobile version of Opera Mini remain in Beta. Download the new releases from m.opera.com with your phone browser or opera.com/mobile/ with your PC. Opera Mini 5 Final will replace Opera Mini 4.2 and Opera Mobile 10 Final will replace any Opera Mobile 10 Beta … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists at Mobyaffiliates

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Read the best recent blogging on mobile topics in this week’s edition of The Carnival Of the Mobilists. Hosted by James Coops at Mobyaffiliates, the latest Carnival has items on location based services, mobile apps and appstores, mobile social network statistics, Seattle’s Mobile Breakfast Events, the Intel Atom Developer program, Skype, the iPad, Opera Mini and Ribbit Voicemail. Thanks to James for including my review of Opera Mini 5 on Android. This week’s Post of the Week competition ended in … Continue reading →

Speckyboy’s Showcase of 20 Popular Mobile-Friendly Design Blogs

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Paul Andrew’s Speckyboy Design Magazine is one of my favorite web and graphic design blogs. Content includes design showcases and loads of articles listing and reviewing Paul’s favorite free and high quality design resources. Paul recently created a mobile view for Speckyboy using Mobify.me‘s WYSIWYG online mobile design tool and hosting service. Yesterday he posted a Showcase of 20 Mobile-Friendly Popular Design Blogs which includes screenshots of each listed site, all of which were built using Mobify. Almost all the … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android Is Here – Full Review

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Opera Software today released their long awaited upgrade to Opera Mini for Android. The Opera Mini 5 Android Beta is now available in the Android Market. Search for “Opera Mini” in the Market to find it. The Beta installs alongside of Opera Mini 4 rather than replacing it. It’s Version 5.0.18302 for those who track such things. I’ve been using the new browser on an HTC Magic running the latest Cyanogenmod ROM. It’s everything I hoped for in Opera Mini … Continue reading →

Location Aware “Touch Web” Transit Tracker from NextBus

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Alameda, California based NextBus delivers frequently updated estimates of the arrival time of the next transit vehicle at a given stop. Delivery is by electronic signs, voice response systems, SMS and the Internet, including the mobile web. NextBus is used by 45 transit systems in the US and Canada, including my hometown, San Francisco. NextBus’ mobile web site has been an anchor tenant of the WapReview Mobile Directory for many years. I use it a lot and find it really … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #205

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

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 2160 mobile sites. Science and Technology/Tech News/Digg Digg Lite digglite.com An open source “Touch Web” version of Digg, created by the Digg folks to demonstrate their API. No JavaScript dependencies but it’s not for feature phones due to front page size of over … Continue reading →

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