Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Disney Mobile – Fun, But Will It Work On Your Child’s Phone?

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Disney’s official mobile site looks like lots of fun for children of all ages.  There are free online games, movie trailers, a “Radio Disney” channel featuring teen-themed music and much more including a special page of games, activities and videos just for preschoolers. On the practical side the site also has TV schedules, Disney on Ice tour schedules and information on Disney theme parks. The coolest feature is probably the  personalized Disney character voice tones generator. It lets you create … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 181

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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 1922 mobile sites. Shopping Canon Mobile Reviews m.usa.canon.com User reviews of Canon products including cameras, printers, binoculars, copiers, scanners and fax machines. Content: Usability: Technology/Internet webmove.org m.webmove.org Webmove is a blog covering new  mashups and content on the web with an emphasis on … Continue reading →

Shop SkyMall On Your Phone

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U.S. travelers are familiar with SkyMall, whose catalog of quirky products lurks in the seat-back pockets of virtually every commercial airliner. But did you know that SkyMall also has Web and mobile Web sites where you can shop the SkyMall catalog without having to board a flight? The mobile site offers a large number of products in a dozen  broad categories like “Sports” and “Pet Products”.  There is a also a search box making it relatively easy to find specific … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Oct 15th and 16th

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Registration is now open for my favorite mobile event, Mobile 2.0. It’s an intimate, fast paced conference that always seems to attract the top people in mobile both as speakers and as attendees. And you gotta love Mobile 2.0’s “No-Powerpoint” rule. The first two Mobile 2.0 events in San Francisco were outstanding and with the same able team of Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone), Gregory Gorman (Tertius), Mike Rowehl (Miso Mob and Mobile Monday), Peter Vesterbacka (Some Bazaar and Mobile Monday) and … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 5-7 Tips and Tricks

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Although this post was originally written for Opera Mini 5, all these tips apply to latter versions, including Opera 8.0. I’ve learned a few tricks for making the most of Opera Mini. Some I discovered on my own and others I found on the web. On non-touch devices you probably want to turn off inline editing. It’s triple-tap only and on the N95 that means a dozen or more presses of the “1” key to enter common symbols like “@”,” … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 5 Beta – First Impressions

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Early this morning Opera Software released the long awaited  first Beta of Opera Mini 5.  You can get it by pointing your phone’s built in browser at mini.opera.com/next.  Or download the .jad and .jar fles or the Blackberry .alx and .cod to your PC for side loading from opera.com/mini/next/download/ Opera Mini 5 is bigger at 221 KB than its 125 KB predecessor and uses more phone resources.  Given the new features this is to be expected but it also means … Continue reading →

Google Fast Flip Mobile for iPhone and Android

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Launched today from Google labs, Fast Flip (fastflip.googlelabs.com) is being billed by Google as a faster way to read news. It’s basically a news search engine like Google News.  But instead of text summaries, Fast Flip returns results in the form of high-resolution screen shots of the first page of online news articles matching your query. You can read  at least part of the story using the image and click through to the source site to read it all. The … Continue reading →

Mobile App Stores Conference San Diego Oct 8

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Well known mobile industry consultant, author and blogger Ajit Jaokar is organizing a one day conference on mobile app stores as part of the big CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2009 event in San Diego next month. The Mobile Application Stores Conference at CTIA has a great lineup of speakers including: Dr. Jin-Sung Choi Ph.D, Senior Vice President, Head MC Global Product Planning Team, LG Electronics Korea George Linardos Vice President, Product Management, Media, Nokia Ilja Laurs Founder & CEO, … Continue reading →