Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Lodging.mobi

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Lodging.mobi is the latest in a number of new mobile hotel search and reservation sites to launch this year. Nice to see this long neglected area of the mobile web finally getting some attention. The site has an inventory of over 75,000 hotels around the world. It uses browser detection and adaptation to deliver page and image sizes optimized for six different classes of device and should be usable on virtually any phone. The user interface is straight forward with … Continue reading →

The iPhone 3GS vs. the Rest of the June Tsunami

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Left to right: Pre, N97, i8910, Ion I got invited to a “Drinks with Nokia” event for local bloggers here in San Francisco yesterday. Ewan, tnkgrl, Matthew Bennett, folks from Ubergizmo, Mobile Burn and quite a few others were there.  Nokia brought at least three N97s and several E75, E7ix and 5800XM phones for us to try out. And when mobile geeks gather there are always loads of cool phones of all makes around too.  I took a couple of … Continue reading →

The Latest Carnival of the Mobilists

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Over at A Consuming Experience, Improbulus has just published this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, the weekly showcase of blog posts on mobile topics. This Carnival is full of event coverage. It’s a good chance to catch up with all those conferences that you didn’t have the time or budget to attend personally. There’s Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Future in Review and Mobile Design UK coverage and a preview of the upcomming Mobile 2.0 Europe. Carnival 177 has a lot more … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #66

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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 1718 mobile sites. Technology/Internet WaGooh m.wagooh.net Web designer and graphic artist Christina Leikam’s beautifily designed site promoting her business. It includes a blog where she shares her thoughts on design and offers tips to help you improve your site. Christina used Mobify to … Continue reading →

It’s Palm Pre Day!

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No I don’t have one, but the Palm Pre has launched.  @tnkGrl and Matthew Bennet covered the line and launch at San Francisco’s Castro St. Sprint store this morning. Catch their videos of the line on Oik. Close to 100 people lined up for the 20 Pres that were available at that store. They invited me to join them at 6AM but I’m way  too lazy for that and as I don’t plan on buying a Pre it just seemed like … Continue reading →

End of An Era: AvantGo Shutting Down

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AvantGo was a pioneer in bringing the web to mobile devices. It started out in 1997 as a offline browser for Palm and Windows Mobile. Back in the day I used it extensively to keep my Handspring Visor filled with the latest web content for reading on my long commute on the train. The drill with AvantGo was, first go to AvantGo.com, login and search for the “channels” you wanted to read on your PDA. There were hundreds of channels … Continue reading →

Detect Mobile Vistors to Your Site With This Free Script

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Over at OSNews, Eugenia Loli-Queru has just updated the OSNews Mobile Detection Kit, a simple PHP script that analyzes visiting browser’s User-Agent headers and redirects them to the mobile or full version of your site. Scripts like this are a light weight/high performance alternative to more elaborate device detection packages like WURFL or Device Atlas. For blogs and news sites that have a mostly-text, “one size fits all” mobile site this script is all you need to send mobile visitors … Continue reading →

Bing Mobile Buries and Transcodes Mobile Web Sites

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Microsoft unveiled their new search engine Bing, last week with considerable fanfare.  Thanks to Google’s Wave announcement the same day it probably didn’t get as much press coverage as it deserved. Bing replaces Live Search and MSN Search.  Initial reviews  have been quite positive. Billed as a “Decision Engine”, Bing on the desktop has some nice touches including auto completion of queries, a list of related searches  in the left sidebar and  infinitely scrolling results rather than pagination for  image … Continue reading →