Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Follow the Oscars Live On Your Phone

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The 82nd Academy Awards will be held this Sunday.  The event is telecast live worldwide and the Academy claims it will be watched by over one billion viewers, making it the fourth most watched live television broadcast, after the Super Bowl, Olympics Opening Ceremony and World Cup Final. If you are one of the many billions who can’t watch the Oscars live on TV, I’ve found a couple of mobile sites where you can follow the festivities using your mobile … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 5 Beta Available As A Native Windows Mobile .CAB

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Opera Software today released a new Beta version of the Opera Mini 5 Beta as a native Windows Mobile  executable packaged as a .cab file.  This means that a JVM or Midlet Manager is no longer required to run Opera Mini on Windows Phones.  Finding and installing a compatible Midlet Manager has been an issue for many Windows Mobile users.  A native Opera Mini eliminates that hassle and should also provide better performance and integration with the OS. Opera Mini … Continue reading →

Parent’s Choice – A Cross Platform Touch Web Site

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Taptu released the second edition of their monthly  Touch Web Report today. Taptu defines the Touch Web as consisting of sites that are optimized for touch screen phones, including touch screen feature phones, rather than for a specific device like the iPhone. To date Taptu has found 326,000 touch web sites. In comparison there are only about 148,000 apps in the iPhone app store.  Because it’s not limited to a single device or subject to arbitratry approval processes, the Touch … Continue reading →

iPhone Only Web Sites Are Bad Business

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Houston TV channel KRIV recently launched FoxRad.mobi. It’s a standalone mobile weather site that isn’t linked to the channel’s  main mobile news (including weather) site at wap.myfoxhouston.com. FoxRad provides very comprehensive weather information for Houston area residents with national, regional and local forecasts and radar maps.  At the local level FoxRad.mobi provides a separate forecast page and radar map for each of the 18 counties making up metro Houston.  It’s a great resource for anyone who needs detailed, timely weather … Continue reading →

Mobile Bookmarklet Page Update and Cleanup

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Most of the better mobile browsers support JavaScript bookmarklets, including Opera Mini 4.2 and 5, Mobile Internet Explorer, Palm Blazer, Opera Mobile, the iPhone, MicroB, Firefox Mobile and the latest version of Nokia Webkit on the N86 and Symbian 5th edition devices. I maintain a page at o.yeswap.com containing dozens of tested mobile bookmarklets and instructions for using them. Today I added a couple of new bookmarklets  to the page: Zap Cookies – Delete all cookies associated with the current … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #204

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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 2150 mobile sites. Travel-Transit Europcar mobile.europcar.com Book a car or van rental, view and modify your existing Eurocar car rental bookings or find the nearest car rental station in any of the 30 European, African and Middle Eastern countries served by Europcar. Content: … Continue reading →

Relief For iPhone Toting Bashful Bladder Sufferers

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EEZi-Pee (www.EEZi-Pee.co.uk), is a mobile Website designed to help those suffering from paruresis or  bashful bladder, a phobia that manifests itself as difficulty in urinating, particularly in the presence of others such as in public restrooms. It lets the paruresis sufferer listen (hopefully using headphones in public) to a variety of running water sounds on their phone in times of need. While it would be easy to joke about the condition and this app, paruresis is actually fairly common (one … Continue reading →

Dolce & Gabbana’s Mobile Web Site Always Wears Black

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Italian luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has created a high style mobile web site showcasing their high fashion Dolce&Gabbana and casual D&G brands. Dressed in Dolce & Gabbana’s signature black, the site has fashion news, event listings, down-loadable runway videos and free wallpapers. The site users browser detection and adapts well to most devices. For those rare cases where the site doesn’t detect the phone’s screen size correctly there is a “Change Resolution” drop-down that allows the user to … Continue reading →