Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

New Carnival of the Mobilists Hosted By Tomi Ahonen

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This week’s mobile Carnival is at Communities Dominate Brands, the blog of well known industry analyst and master of mobile statistics, Tomi Ahonen. The Carnival theme this week is the love and happiness engendered by the simultaneous arrival of Valentine’s Day and the Lunar (Chinese) New Year. Highlights  include pieces on Valentines related mobile services, mobile user experience, messaging based mobile advertising, the iPhone in South Korea, operator backlash against Google’s use of cell tower positioning, the potential intrusiveness of … Continue reading →

Bolt 1.7 Adds Widgets, Twitter Integration, Flash Video and Download Manager Enhancements

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There were a huge number of major announcements at the Mobile World Congresss (MWC) in Barcelona today.  Somewhat lost in the barrage of press releases was that Bitstream has released Bolt 1.7.  The main things that are new in this release are: The ability to post to  Twitter from within Bolt.  Posts are pre-populated with the current page’s URL and are editable so you can add your own comments to the tweet. Widgets (images below) based on the draft W3C … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #202

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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 2131 mobile sites. Sports/Winter Olympics Yahoo Olympics! m.yahoo.com/olympics Both Yahoo and Google waited until the last minute to launch their Olympic mobile sites with both popping  up on the eve of the games. Yahoo gives most smartphones, touch devices and Opera Mini users … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 Released

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Opera Software has released a new Beta of Opera Mobile,  their native code direct browser for  Symbian 3rd and 5th edition and Windows Mobile 5 and 6+ phones.  It includes a couple of highly anticipated features; Windows Mobile only support for plugins such as Flash Lite and support for non-touchscreen Windows Mobile phones. The Beta also features numerous bug fixes and stability and functionality enhancements. I installed the new Beta on my N95-3 and can confirm that it fixes two … Continue reading →

Dropbox Mobile

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Dropbox is one of the the best ways I’ve found to back up and share files across multiple computers and devices and within work groups. It’s a popular (4 million users) service that provides cloud storage with an emphasis on file and folder synchronization, sharing and collaborative document and media editing across multiple devices. The basic service, which is free, includes 2GB of storage. Paid options at $9.99/month for 50GB of storage and $19.99/month for 100GB are also available. Files … Continue reading →

Trying Google Buzz on Android, Symbian – and the N900

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock you probably heard that Google released Buzz yesterday.  Details are on the Google Blog. Buzz appears to be Google’s attempt at building an app that combines the best features of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare into a single all singing, all dancing desktop AND mobile service. With Buzz you can publicly or privately post status updates, photos and videos, view your friends Buzzes and view nearby Buzzes on a map.  Buzzes can automatically include … Continue reading →

Why Do Mobile Web Designers Ignore Opera Mini?

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There’s a lot of buzz these days about how “touch web” browsers, especially the iPhone’s Safari, but also the WebKit based browsers on Android, Palm WebOS  and recent Symbian devices are  revolutionizing mobile browsing.  It’s certainly true, especially in the US and other developed countries, that advanced smartphones with powerful “full-web” browsers have opened a lot of eyes to the fact that using the Web on mobile phones is not only practical but fun and useful. But not everyone can … Continue reading →

New Mobile Carnival at Indigo 102

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There’s another great Carnival of the Mobilists this week. It’s hosted by Martin Wilson at Indigo 102. As always, it’s a must read for everyone interested in any area of mobile. The latest edition includes Tomi Ahonen’s annual mobile industry statistics extravaganza plus a couple of items analyzing 2009 handset market share data. If stats aren’t your thing there are a variety of thought provoking posts on other areas of the mobile world including a critical look at  iPad, discussions … Continue reading →