Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

The iPhone Does NOT Drive 50% of US Mobile Traffic

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The last couple of days has seen a flood of  headlines in the mainstream and tech press trumpeting  “iPhone Accounts For 50 Percent Of U.S. Mobile Web Traffic” or “iPhone Drives 50% Of U.S. Mobile Web Traffic“.  Sounds pretty amazing and cool for mobile web designers, right? I guess we can stop maintaining those 20 KB page size mobile sites targeted at funky feature phones and devote all our energies to mobile Ajax and the JavaScript rollover effects that play … Continue reading →

Ubi – Michelin Guides for Mobile

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Ubi is a mobile front end to the prestigious, especially in Europe, Michelin Guides.  The mobile site  at ubiubi.mobi covers most  U.S. metropolitan areas and lets you search for restaurants by keyword and location. Results, which seem to be limited to places listed in the Michelin guidebooks, include address, click to call phone numbers and maps.  There are links to the Michelin reviews but registration is required to view them.  Basic registration is free but limits you to viewing just … Continue reading →

Superpages Mobile – Cool Features, Quirky UI

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Superpages.com, which was primarily an U.S.only online phone directory has expanded their mobile offering into a full blown local search engine.  The site, which is owned by Verizon spinoff Idearc Media now provides business search by name or category, maps, driving directions, WiFi hotspot search, weather forecasts, movie reviews and show times in addition to phone number look up by name and location and a reverse phone number directory. It’s still U.S. only, however. The site gets the job done … Continue reading →

SlideShare Mobile – Best Viewed With Opera Mini!

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SlideShare, the site  where you can share and view PowerPoint and other presentations online in  a web based viewer now has a mobile version at m.slideshare.com It works pretty well as long as you have the right mobile browser. You can search for presentations, view the slides and if you log on, save them online or download them to your phone. Unfortunately, Slideshare is quite picky about what browsers it will play nice with.  As far as I can tell, … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #166 at WIP Jam

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This week’s Carnival is at WIP Jam. It’s hosted by Caroline Lewko who has assembled a great collection of posts from the mobile blogsphere. Items include a look at the mobile privacy debate, LiMo, iPhone gaming, and an interview with Tomi Ahonen. Special congratulations to London Calling‘s Andrew Grill who won Post of the Week honors for his write up of last week’s Mobile Marketing Association event in London.  And thanks to Caroline for including my Ovi developer’s event piece. … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #55

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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 1498 mobile sites. Sports GO211 m.go211.com Skateboard, Snowboard, Surfing and BMX news, videos, blogs and event calendar.  Slick looking site but page size of over 80 KB maybe a problem for feature phone browsers Content: Usability: Sports/NFL Colts Mobile www.colts.com/mobile/ Fan site for … Continue reading →

Ovi App Store Details

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I went to an Ovi App Store developers event at Nokia’s Silicon Valley office in Mountain View yesterday. It was time well spent with  informative presentations, good food and drink and the chance to meet and grill some of the Forum Nokia staff about just how the Ovi App Store will work. I didn’t get all my questions answered but I learned a lot and I have new respect for the Ovi Store initiative and Nokia’s commitment to supporting and … Continue reading →

Google Voice – First Impressions

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I upgraded  my GrandCentral account to Google Voice yesterday.  GrandCentral was the  “one number for life” startup that Google bought two years ago.  After the acquisition, Google seemingly neglected GrandCentral to the point that I expected it would soon follow Jaiku, Google Notes and Dodgeball into the graveyard of deceased Google experiments. I was wrong. Google seems to have spent those two years redesigning and upgrading GrandCentral to re-release it as Google Voice.  The new service retains all the features … Continue reading →