Microsoft – Yahoo: Bad News For Mobile Search

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

By now you’ve probably heard about the Microsoft – Yahoo deal. Yahoo will shutter their search engine and instead source search results from Microsoft’s Bing. There are lots of details about advertising revenue share that I won’t bore you with. If you are interested in that sort of thing, Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land has a good summary. While probably necessary for Yahoo’s survival, I’m worried about the future of my favorite mobile search engine, Yahoo’s oneSearch. What I … Continue reading →

Updated: Verizon Woos Developers With Openness

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

I’ve been watching a live webcast of the Verizon Developer Community Conference that is being held today in San Jose. The U.S.’s biggest mobile operator is saying that they are through with the walled garden and proprietary platforms. Developers are being promised that going forward it will be much easier, faster and less costly to get their apps to market on Verizon phones. Key elements of the new developer initiative include: A new vCast Application Store launching by year end … Continue reading →

New Carnival of the Mobilists At Idemode

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

This week’s 184th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists is at Idlemode. There are a number of interesting posts spotlighted this time including ones covering mobile advertising, app stores, Palm Pre sales numbers, mobile web widgets, the importance of the operators in selling smartphones, mobiles in medicine and a lively debate on whether local apps or browser based ones will dominate the mobile computing space. Thanks to Ifan Chou for hosting this Carnival and also for including one of … Continue reading →

m.DrJukka.com – Download Y-Browser, Y-Tasks and More

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Dr. Jukka Silvennoinen, aka DrJukka, is a prolific developer of free Symbian smartphone applications for S60 3rd and 5th edition phones. His best known apps are Y-Browser, a powerful file manager and Y-Tasks, a great collection of system utilities that includes a task manager, file association editor, crash monitor and a font viewer/manager. I’ve found both of these programs indispensable on my N95. Neither of them are available in the Ovi Store, unfortunately. You can download Y-Browser and Y-Tasks and … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 173

Posted on July 26, 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 1816 mobile sites. Entertainment/Gossip Molly and Jake m.mollyandjake.com/ Mobile edition of a gossip blog specializing in PG13 gossip about teen stars including Zac Efron, the Sprouse Brothers and Miley Cyrus. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio Jump2Video jump2video.com/ Search and browse … Continue reading →

CSS Bug Spoils Useful Mobile Apartment Finder

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

UDR is United Dominion Realty which owns and manages a number of large apartment complexes in U.S. cities. UDR’s mobile site, udrapartments.mobi should make relatively easy to find rental units in major U.S. cities with your mobile phone. With it you can browse by state and city or use an advanced search form that lets you filter results by price, number of bedrooms and baths and available amenities like a pool, air conditioning and whether pets are permitted. Searches return … Continue reading →

OviGaming.mobi Launched