Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found On The Mobile Web 186

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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 1986 mobile sites. Sports WWE Mobile wwe.mobi Official site of World Wrestling Entertainment, which produces the “sport” of professional wrestling. The slick looking mobile site has news, results, schedules of TV shows, live events and star appearances. There are ringtones, wallpapers, videos and … Continue reading →

View PDFs in Opera Mini, Easy Peasy!

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Pdf documents continue to be a pain in the butt for mobile web users.  Most mobile browsers can’t open them and downloading a PDF for viewing with a dedicated reader app is time consuming and only possible on fairly advanced handsets. A month ago I wrote about a way to view PDFs in Opera Mini by pasting the PDF’s URL into an online PDF to HTML converter form.  That works but requires quite a few steps to accomplish and isn’t … Continue reading →

Fans Get Daily Updates From the New England Patriot’s Mobile Site

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The New England Patriots are historically one of the winningest teams in the NFL and their mobile site is pretty good too, at least if you have a fairly capable handset. The attractive and easy to navigate design is by Quattro Wireless. Browser detection is used to optimize image and page sizes to work well with a wide range of phones. The minimum page weight of 32 KB is too large for some low-end feature phones, however. The site features … Continue reading →

Fone Arena, The Leading Indian Phone Review Site Is Now Mobile

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Fone Arena (not to be confused with U.S. based phonearena.com) is India’s biggest mobile hardware review and news site. With a great team of contributing writers around the world it delivers in depth reviews and photos of the latest handsets as well as industry news and rumors. Fone Arena is also the home of the “Mobile Doctor” who answers reader’s questions about phone and network problems and handset features. The mobile version of Fone Arena uses WordPress Mobile Pack Filed … Continue reading →

Updated: All WordPress.com Blogs Are Now Mobile Friendly.

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Images – WordPress.com Updated: Issues using WordPress.com with Symbian phones fixed. Wow! Automattic, the folks behind WordPress, finally fixed something I’ve been complaining about for years.  All 4.5 million WordPress.com blogs are now mobile friendly. Just to be clear there are two distinct products called “WordPress“.  WordPress.org, which is what WapReview.com runs on, is free open source software that anyone can download and install on a web server.   You can do anything with it including modifying the code or installing … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 – Apps vs. Browser Based Web Services

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There is tremendous buzz currently around native apps and app stores thanks to the iPhone App phenomenon. This was especially noticeable  during a panel at Mobile 2.0 titled “Developers, Mobile Ecosystem Development & Third Party Services & Applications” The panelists, from Qualcomm, GetJar, O2, Sun and the Symbian Foundation, were all involved with their respective company’s App Store efforts.  While one can hardly blame players in the App store space for touting their vision, I  think it got a little … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 185

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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 1975 mobile sites. Search/Local/City and Campus Guides Tucson Weekly m.tucsonweekly.com Guide to dinning, movies and events in Tucson, Arizona. Content: Usability: Reference exchangerates.mobi exchangerates.mobi Live currency exchange rates and conversion between 173 currencies, including precious metals and obsolete currencies. Source Mobilty.mobi Content: Usability: … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 – Advertising Tips for Mobile Web Publishers

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I spent the last two days at the Mobile 2.0 Conference – Silicon Valley. This is my fourth Mobile 2.0 and like the previous three was a first rate event with great speakers and panels and attendance by a global group of mobile entrepreneurs and developers. It was ably organized and run with great attention to detail by Greg Gorman, Mike Rowehl and Peter Vesterbacka with off-site support from Rudy De Waele and Daniel Appelquist . The event was two … Continue reading →