The Washington Post’s New, Much Improved Mobile Site

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

The Washington Post is widely regarded as one of the two best US newspapers, the other being the New York Times. Compared with the Times, the Post has been slow to develop its web and especially its mobile web presence. Last week the paper took a step to improve its mobile web offering with a complete redesign of mobile.washingtonpost.com The revamped and expanded site was develeoped with the help of Norway’s MobileTech. It uses browser detection and adaptation to vary … Continue reading →

Taptu’s Blog Features Content Over Corporate Promotion

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Taptu is one of my favorite mobile search engines. I’ve blogged about Taptu‘s mobile search product and it is listed in the Wap Review Mobile Directory’s Web Search section. But did you know that Taptu also has a blog? Unlike so many boring promotional corporate blogs, Taptu’s actually has content of interest to mobile developers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts. Posts cover a wide range of topics from analysis of industry news like the recent Yahoo, Microsoft search deal, mobile design and … Continue reading →

Read “Steve Jobs hates the App Store” at FactoryCity

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Chris Messina is an opensource advocate known for his work with Firefox, Flock and the Bar Camp movement. I just read a great post of his titled “Steve Jobs hates the App Store“. The title is a bit misleading, the provocative and lively post is really about Chris’ belief that the future of computing, including mobile computing, is not with apps but with web services. Highly recommended. You can read Steve Jobs hates the App Store and the rest of … Continue reading →

Fonet – Now As Good Looking As it is Useful

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Fonet is a large mobile portal with a lot of features. It combines an extensive mobile web directory with a social network, personal portal and online tools like search, maps and driving directions. Social networking features include profile pages, friends list, messaging, groups and blogs. Fonet’s personal portal gives users an online phonebook, todo list, notepad, photo storage and sharing and the ability to create a personal bookmark list of their favorite links and RSS feeds. In terms of features … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 174

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

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 1825 mobile sites. Technology Smooth-On. smoothon.mobify.me Smooth-On makes a sells a wide variety of materials and tools for many types of mold making and casting. The firm’s web and mobile sites offer an array of FAQs, tutorials and videos of interest to both … Continue reading →

Traffic.com Updated – New Maps, Easier Navigation

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Navteq has updated their free mobile traffic site, mobi.traffic.com. The major changes since I last looked at the site are the ability to search for your city by zip code and maps! Traffic.com covers over 50 U.S. metropolitan areas and lets you pick yours from a drop down list. That can be a tedious process on some basic phones that only let you slowly scroll the list one line at a time. The addition of a zip code field makes … Continue reading →

Pocket Southwold

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Guide to Southwold, a town on the England’s Suffolk coast that is noted for its natural beauty and historic structures including the 15th Century Church of St Edmund, historic pier, harbor, lighthouse and brewery. The attractive, image heavy Pocket Southwold site appears to have been designed for the iPhone but also works well with other mobile browsers that are able to handle its 100 KB pages including the Nokia Webkit browser, Opera Mini and even the “Services” browser on recent … Continue reading →

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