Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

CTIA Mobile Website and App

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If you’re at the big CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment® show this week in San Diego or just want to keep on top of news from the event, the CTIA has a mobile website for you at ctiamobileapp.com with: Alerts (currently empty) Schedule of sessions where you can also vote on yea or nay on each one Searchable Directory of exhibitors with booth numbers and clickable contact email addresses and phone numbers. CTIA news feeds from WirelessWeek and Unstrung @CTIAShow … Continue reading →

Bolt Browser 1.5 Released

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Today Bitstream released version 1.5 of their free Bolt browser. Bolt is a Java ME app and runs on most phones. If you are using a previous version of Bolt should be  prompted to update as soon as you try to visit a web page. If you don’t already have Bolt, visit boltbrowser.com with your mobile browser or boltbrowser.com/download.html using a  PC browser and follow the prompts to download and install Bolt 1.5. With 1.5 Bolt loses its Beta label … Continue reading →

Free App Store For Boost Mobile and Sprint iDen Users

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I’ve built and launched  a new mobile and desktop service called BoostApps.  It’s an off-portal free app store for Boost Mobile and Sprint Nextel iDEN network users. Unlike most mobile platforms, iDEN doesn’t support direct over the air downloads of Java applications using the browser. Games and apps can be purchased from Sprint using a desktop or mobile browser. Purchased games are provisioned to the user’s handset and downloaded to the phone through a Java ME application called Download Apps … Continue reading →

New AT&T Feature Phones Get Opera Mini Browser

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Today AT&T and Opera announced the impending release of four new feature phones with a: “faster HTML mobile browser and att.net service, combining the best of full HTML browsing with unique features for personalizing favorite bookmarks and local searches. The new att.net mobile platform utilizes advanced data compression from Opera Software, allowing for much faster delivery of HTML Web pages.” The press release is short on details about the browser, which is branded as att.net rather than Opera,  but I … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 183

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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 1951 mobile sites. Sports SEC Sports m.secdn.com Official site of the The Southeastern Conference (SEC) which features some of the strongest schools in US college sports including football powerhouse Alabama and perennial NCAA women’s basketball champions Tennessee. The conference’s mobile site has live … Continue reading →

K&L Wines Mobile – Wines and Spirits Reviewed and Rated

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One of the better mobile wine sites. K&L is a connoisseurs wine and liquor shop with stores in San Francisco, Redwood City and Hollywood, California. They also accept online orders with shipping to states where permitted by local laws and also to Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. K&L’s mobile site is a searchable, categorized directory of their current inventory of wines and spirits with descriptions, ratings and a photo of the bottle and label. Orders can be placed by … Continue reading →

Google Local Gets Categories and “Starred Places”

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Google updated their mobile web based local search yesterday. There are a number of enhancements that combined could potentially make it my new favorite local mobile search engine. Here’s what’s new: Location enabled – Google local on Android and the iPhone have been location aware for a while, now location support has been sort of extended to all platforms. How is that possible given that only Android, the iPhone, BlackBerries and Windows Mobile devices with Gears installed  support sharing your … Continue reading →

Updated: Read PDF’s On Your Phone With Opera Mini 5

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Updated 19-Oct-2009 -Added pdfdownload.org and Serola’s mobile PDF conversion form. After Adobe Flash, I think the second biggest mobile browsing annoyance is  the PDF file format, which most mobile browsers can’t display. Thanks to Opera Mini and the ingenuity of the mobile user community it is now possible to view PDFs on most phones.  The process is a bit tedious but if you really need to read a particular PDF on your phone it works. The idea is to grab … Continue reading →