Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Getaway – Find Hotels In South Africa and Beyond

Posted on by

Getaway is a new hotel search engine, primarily for South Africa but with some listings for other African countries and for India. Listings include a photo, description and the hotel’s phone number and email. While the listings are useful, it might be hard to actually find or even contact the hotels as they don’t include a street address and the phone numbers and email addresses are plain text rather than click-to-call or mailto: links. It’s such a simple thing for … Continue reading →

What Is A Fair Price For Mobile Data?

Posted on by

Photo: Neil Crosby Some rights reserved Last week I took a look at data options for users in the fast-growing prepaid segment of the mobile market and found them to be uniformly miserable, thanks to a combination of price gouging and arbitrary restrictions on handset use. This got me to wondering what exactly was a fair price for mobile data, especially on prepaid plans. In the postpaid world the U.S. operators offer data plans for  laptop connect cards that provide … Continue reading →

Today On The Mobile Web

Posted on by

My picks for the top mobile and data news stories of the last 24 hours. N900 officially announced after a million leaks. Nokia’s first Linux based phone  has impressive specs:  3.5 inch, 800 x 480 touch screen,  hardware  QWERTY,  256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory, Mozilla browser with Flash 9.4, tri-band 3G with support for U.S. T-Mobile bands. Official product page with full specs and lots of photos,  video, video,  N97, N86, N810 size comparison at All About Symbian. … Continue reading →

IntoMobile On Your Mobile

Posted on by

IntoMobile is one of my favorite mobile news blogs. Will Park and his team do a great job of covering the latest in mobile hardware, software, services and industry news. Their hard work and timely, quality content have made IntoMobile one of the top mobile news sites with over 3.5 million monthly unique visitors according to Google Analytics. Stefan Constantinescu, one of my favorite mobile bloggers, recently rejoined the team after a stint at Nokia Marketing and Corporate Strategy . … Continue reading →

Today On The Mobile Web

Posted on by

Hot mobile topics from the interwebs today. Motorola Android handset launch events scheduled for Sept. 10th in San Francisco and  Sept. 15th in London Bank of Nokia? NokiaMoney,  a global mobile payment system will launch early next year. This could  be big, if it works on all handsets – not just Nokias. Happy Birthday WMLprogramming! Pioneering mobile web developer mailing list turns ten, bigger and more relevant than ever. Free mobile internet for all Vodafone UK customers this Friday.

SkyFire 1.1 – Faster Startup, Better Usability

Posted on by

Late yesterday SkyFire released version 1.1 of their namesake browser for Windows Mobile 5 and 6  and Symbian S60 3rd edition.  You can download SkyFire 1.1 to your phone or PC from get.skyfire.com. I’ve been using SkyFire since the first Symbian release over a year ago.  From the beginning it has done an amazing job with videos. It’s the only mobile browser that lets you watch the Flash videos on almost any web site including, YouTube, Daily Motion, Vimeo, Veoh, … Continue reading →

Today On The Mobile Web

Posted on by

I’m going to try to post  the top mobile web and mobile data related stories and buzz that I find on the web.  I’ll keep these posts short, only a few links and cryptic commentary so as not to bore everyone to tears. Here are today’s top stories: Opera’s July State of the Mobile Web Report – 29.1 million Opera Mini users in July, up 9.9% from last month and 145% from July 08. New Skyfire 1.1 Release The only … Continue reading →

BlackBerry Adopting Webkit – Trouble for Opera?

Posted on by

It’s a big news day in the mobile world today with Nokia announcing a netbook, Spinvox spokesman and well known mobile blogger James Whatley leaving the beleaguered company and Google openning submissions for the second Android Developer Challenge. Somewhat lost in the flurry of news were a couple of other stories that I think will have a big long term impact on the way we develop for and use our mobile devices. First up, TorchMobile announced that they have been … Continue reading →