Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found on the Mobile Web 171

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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 1784 mobile sites. Technology Stackoverflow. stackoverflow.mobi Unofficial mobile version of the popular software development forum, stackoverflow.com. Source: Mobility.mobi Content: Usability: Technology/Mobile/Downloads Firefox Fennec www.firefox.mobi Firefox Coming To Your Phone! Mobile friendly download and information page for Firefox’s Fennec browser for Windows Mobile Professional … Continue reading →

Which U.S. Operator Is Getting Opera Mini?

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IDG News Service’s Elizabeth Montalbano quotes Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner as saying in “a recent interview” that “We are working … to provide an Opera Mini-based solution with a major operator in the U.S.,”.  The report goes on to say that the deal will be bigger than Opera’s recent partnership with Virgin Mobile, that the browser may not carry the Opera branding and that the deal involves Motricity, which provides content delivery services, mobile portals and/or storefronts  to all … Continue reading →

Get More From Your BlackBerry with Opera Mini

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If you have a BlackBerry and aren’t using Opera Mini 4.2 you are missing out on what is in my opinion, the best BlackBerry application.  Mini is a small (under 170KB) application that implements a full html web browser that rivals and in many cases exceeds the performance of the best smartphone browsers. And yes that includes Safari on the iPhone. Compared with the built-in BlackBerry browser, especially on older models like my 7100i, Mini is so overwhelmingly superior that … Continue reading →

Nokia, Go Green and UCLA’s New App Tracks Your Personal Environmental Impact

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This morning I participated in a Q&A secssion with Martin Gutierrez from the Go Green Foundation, John Shen from Nokia Labs, and Jeff Burke and Mark Hansen from UCLA about PEIR (Personal Environmental Impact Report), an environmental initiative by UCLA researchers that Nokia and Go Green are funding. PEIR is an application for Symbian OS 3rd Ed, Windows Mobile 6 and soon Android handsets. It measures your impact on the environment by using location data uploaded from your phone to … Continue reading →

Who Has the Best Live Mobile Tour de France Coverage?

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This year’s Tour de France is off to an exciting start. The biggest news is seven time winner Lance Armstrong’s coming out of a four year retirement at age 37 to ride his 12th Tour. Armstrong claims he isn’t riding to win this year but to support Alberto Contador, his Astana team’s leader. However yesterday Lance managed to join a late stage breakaway engineered by team Columbia-HTC. The 28 man breakaway finished 41 seconds ahead of the pack and Contador. … Continue reading →

Quick.as – New Mobile Start Page

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Quick.as is a new web and mobile portal or start page. It offers a single search box that lets you search with a dozen different search engines on basic phones and over a hundred different search engines ranging form Google and Yahoo to the Shenzen Stock Exchange and The Pirate Bay on the desktop and phones that support JavaScript Quick.as is not a meta-search engine, you have to choose a single search engine for each query, Quick.as claims to detect … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 170

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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 1773 mobile sites. Technology/Mobile/Smartphones/Symbian SymbianOne mippin.com/symbianone News blog covering Symbian games, development tools, usage case studies, market analysis and employment opportunities. Source Anything Geospatial Content: Usability: Technology/Internet the css blog m.thecssblog.com A nice collection of very good CSS tips and tutorials in blog … Continue reading →

Electricity Out? Get Status Updates On Your Mobile Phone

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I think this is a mobile first. Ameren, an electric power utility serving 1.9 million customers in Illinois and Missouri has launched a mobile website that lets customers check the status of service outages. You can search for affected areas by zip code or county. You can also report if your power is out and get real time updates on the progress of restoring power to your specific home or business. The site also has customer service phone numbers (unfortunately … Continue reading →