Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found On The Mobile Web 179

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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 1896 mobile sites. Sports Planet-Rugby planet-rugby.mobi Planet-Rugby’s mobile site has the latest Rugby Union news, fixtures and results. Covers all major tournaments  from the Guinness Premiership to Super 14. Source: Mobility.mobi Content: Usability: Technology/Internet kristarella m.kristarella.com The personal blog of Australian designer and … Continue reading →

CellStories – Mobile Short Story Of The Day

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CellStories is a new mobile service offering a different short story every day. The stories, which average 1500 to 2000 words or about a 10 minute read, are free. They supplied by budding or established authors looking to increase their exposure. CellStories doesn’t pay for content but will link back to the author’s (hopefully mobile optimized) site or Amazon.com or other bookstore sales page. The design of CellStories is attractive but functional. I particularly like that the site opens directly … Continue reading →

Yahoo Refreshes Mobile Portal Again

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It looks like Yahoo quietly slipped out an update to the “smartphone” version their mobile web portal yesterday. This is the slick, customizable variant of mobile Yahoo that lets your create a personal portal containing your favorite RSS feeds, Yahoo News categories, an unlimited number of stock quotes, local weather and movie times, Y!Mail, Gmail, Hotmail or AOL Mail inboxes and  live status updates from your Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and other social network accounts. Yesterday’s update is pretty substantial.  It’s … Continue reading →

Nokia CEO calls the N900 “the best browser device ever” Is It?

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At the Nokia World keynote today, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvou (OPK) called the N900 the “best browser device ever”.  Strong words and clearly aimed at the iPhone which is often said to have the best mobile browser. I’m really hoping that OPK is right as I don’t consider the iPhone’s browser all that great. It’s OK, with pretty good rendering and JavaScript support and it’s easy to use.  I don’t even mind that it doesn’t support Flash, personally I wish … Continue reading →

Follow Maemo-Guru On Your Phone For Nokia World’09 Updates

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Ricky Cadden, the Symbian Guru, has expanded his coverage to include Nokia’s newest smartphone platform with the launch of Maemo-Guru.com. While Maemo isn’t new having been used in the Nokia N770, N800 and N810 Internet tablets, those were not phones. The next iteration of Maemo devices, the just announced N900, is. Reputedly launching in October the N900 with it’s 3.5 inch touchscreen, WiFi AND 3G radios, slide out QWERY keyboard, huge amount of memory and a Mozilla based browser with … Continue reading →

Delivr Update Improves Mobile Usability

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Delivr is the short URL  service that I  use with Twitter and other micro-blogging services. I like Delivr because it’s fast and reliable but most of all because it is mobile aware.  Mobile visitors to a Delivr URL get the mobile version of the target site, if there is one, otherwise they see a mobilized view created with Google’s transcoder. Desktop visitors to the same Delivr URL are transported directly to the original link. As much as I like Delivr … Continue reading →

Carnival Of Mobilists 189 at MSearchGroove

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This week the Carnival of the Mobilists is appearing at MSearchGroove where noted mobile industry analyst Peggy Anne Salz is making her first appearance as Carnival head barker. Peggy’s lined this week’s midway with some great attractions, so step right up and to hear the pitches  brimming with mobile intelligence.  The attractions this time are all over the mobile lot with everything from  mobile industry statistics through mobile banking, Nokia‘s current predicament and potential future,  mobile VOIP, mobile’s role in … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 178

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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 1887 mobile sites. Technology/Internet SitePoint m.sitepoint.com The mobile edition of Sitepoint.com has web design and development tutorials, articles and podcasts. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Mobile view by Mobify.me Content: Usability: snook.ca. m.snook.ca Jonathan Snook ( Snitter, My Mile Marker, and Overheard.it) shares web … Continue reading →