Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

F1-Live's New Mobile Site

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The 2009 Formula One season has gotten off to a surprising start with Jenson Button and the new Brawn team winning three of the first four races. An amazing turn around for Brawn, which is the ne’er-do-well Honda team with a new name and Mercedes engines. Also new this season is a major redesign of F1-Live.com‘s mobile web site at m.f1-live.com. F1-Live is part of the  Montpelier, France based Racing-Live.com group, which was acquired last year by ESPN. The redesign … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 Barcelona June 18-19

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My favorite mobile conference, Mobile 2.0 is happening  in Barcelona next month, June 18-19.  I’ve been to all three of the Mobile 2.0 events in San Francisco and have been very impressed with quality of the speakers, panels and with the fast moving, “no PowerPoints” format. This is the second European Mobile 2.0. I have no budget for travel so I wasn’t able to make it to the first one last year, but it was bigger and by some accounts … Continue reading →

New Carnival of the Mobilists

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This week’s edition, the 172nd, of the weekly showcase of the best blog posts on mobile topics is at mobilestance.com. There’s something for everyone at the Carnival with posts ranging the gamut from the iPhone to Android, Symbian, Limo, App Stores, mobile bar codes, marketing, mobile advertising, privacy, the decline of Motorola, design, mobile SEO and submitting your site to search engines and a great wrap up of world wide mobile data statistics and revenue numbers. A big thank you … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #61

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Found on the Mobile Web is an 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 1630 mobile sites. News Treehugger m.treehugger.com,  by Discovery Communications, is a leading news blog covering environmental issues, the “green” movement and sustainable living. Attractive site design is by Crisp Wireless. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Travel-Transit/Air Krakow Airport m.krakowairport.pl/en Scheludes,flight status, directory … Continue reading →

Mobile Fear of Flying Self Help Course

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Does getting on an airplane tie your stomach in knots? Is fear keeping you from traveling? Try this free self help program for anyone nervous about flying.  Airline Captain Stacey L. Chance has offered this course online since 2001 and recently made it available in a more mobile friendly format. The course is designed to help you quickly overcome anxiety and feel relaxed and confident on your flight.  Capt. Stacey covers the types of fear associated with flying including fear … Continue reading →

DotMobi’s New WordPress Mobile Plugin

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Images courtesy of dotMobi dotMobi just released WordPress Mobile Pack, a plugin that creates a mobile version of your WordPress Blog.  There are at least a half a dozen plugins that claim to do the same thing so you might ask if we really need yet another.  I’ve been playing with a pre-release version of Mobile Pack  for the last week and believe that is the most complete, standards compiant and extensible yet.  It’s also very easy to install and … Continue reading →

MIR Reborn? The Really Mobile Project and Mobile Developer TV Launch

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My favorite mobile blog for the last few years was SMS Text News (later renamed Mobile Industry Review, MIR for short) I thoroughly enjoyed Ewan MacLeod‘s brutally honest, scathing but hilarious put downs of  “rubbish, bullocks and fluking useless” mobile devices and services.  It got even better when Ewan added James Whatley, Ben Smith and  Dan Lane to the team and put them to work doing weekly long format video podcasts that were both entertaining and full of insights and … Continue reading →