Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

AudioBoo – Mobile Web Friendly iPhone Podcasting

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AudioBoo is a very slick iPhone app, mobile and desktop website. On the iPhone it integrates with the device’s voice recording capability allowing you to create and publish audio clips, called “Boos” with a single click. You can optionally include an image with your Boo. Boos are published on the AudioBoo web and mobile site and there are lots of ways to share Boos and add them to your mobile or desktop site. Options include a Flash-based embeddable player, WordPress … Continue reading →

How to Run the Ovi Store App on the N95-3 NAM (and Why You Might Not Want To)

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It’s been three weeks since Nokia’s Ovi App Store launched.  I figured that it was time to go back and take a look at how the store was evolving.  By now the opening day rush would be over and the traffic related availability problems that some users reported resolved.  I also wanted to see if the store’s rather bare selves were filling up. But first I made a determined attempt to get the Ovi Store App to install on my … Continue reading →

Yahoo Rolls Out New Mobile Portal

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It looks like Yahoo is slowly replacing their legacy mobile web portal with the greatly enhanced  one that they announced at MWC and which I reviewed a Beta of in April.  According to a press release issued today users with supported handsets in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Italy should be seeing the updated site. The April Beta was launched in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Today’s additions bring … Continue reading →

Ten New Mobile Hotel Sites From Wyndham

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Wyndham Hotels Group, the worlds largest hotelier, has launched ten mobile sites, one for each of Wyndham’s brands that operate in the U.S. I have my doubts about the multiple site strategy. After a hard day on the road I just want to find the nearest available room at a price I can afford.  I could care less whether it’s a Days Inn, Super 8 or Microtel.  I certainly don’t want to visit ten sites.  Instead I would probably use … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #67

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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 direactory and portal now list 1735 mobile sites. Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio eSnips m.esnips.com Download images, full track music .mp3’s and videos (currently .flv only but more mobile friendly formats are coming soon.) Content: Usability: Technology/Mobile/MobileTech My IP for mobile my-ip.mobi Mobile IP finder, reports your phone’s current IP address. … Continue reading →

iGoogle For the iPhone and Android. It’s Baack!

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There was quite a bit of furor on the interwebs back in January when Google  killed the special version of the iGoogle personalized home page for the iPhone and Android devices. Google’s explanation at the time was that they wanted to provide a consistent experience across all devices. Which didn’t make much sense given the big Gs enthusiasm for cloud based web services running in advanced mobile web browsers as a replacement for installable apps. For the last five months … Continue reading →

Build A Mobile Web Search Site Using Bing or Yahoo Data?

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It looks like it’s  now possible for developers to create a web search engine on the cheap using data from at least two of the big three (Google, Yahoo,  Microsoft Bing) search engines.  Instead of having to build your own army of crawler bots and commanding them to index the mobile web, a prohibitively expensive and time consuming process, you can simply pass a  query in an API call to retrieve search results from at least two of the big … Continue reading →

Ten Days Until Mobile 2.0 Europe

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Ten days to go and Mobile 2.0 Europe is shaping up, once again, to become  another ‘must be’ event for innovative entrepreneurs and influencers in the mobile ecosystem! If you want to know more about what’s going to happen, check our final program and our extensive speaker profiles with the latest additions. If you hadn’t noticed yet, the line-up is really impressive. Recently added speakers include: Michael Breidenbruecker – Founder Reality Jockey Ltd. / Co-Founder Last.fm Ltd. Carlos Domingo – … Continue reading →