Found On The Mobile Web #230

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 2337 mobile sites. Tech StackMobile stackmobile.com A front-end to the StackExchange network of sites optimized for display on SmartPhones and web-enabled devices. StackExchange started with StackOverflow, a wiki-based user-driven help site for software developers that uses a system of voting and reputation to … Continue reading

Found On The Mobile Web #222

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 2274 mobile sites. News – Middle East Zawya www.zawya.com/mobile/ Updated daily, Dubai based Zawya covers Middle East business and financial news, IPOs, stocks, projects, funds, private equity, and Sukuk (Islamic bonds). Content: Usability: Yahoo! Maktoob m.business.maktoob.com Yahoo acquired Middle Eastern web portal Maktoob … Continue reading

DublinBikes iPhone App Pulled, Here’s a Mobile Web Alternative

An iPhone app that helped Dubliners find available rental bikes has been pulled from the iTunes App Store.  For once it’s not Apple who is to blame but the bike rental company, JC Decaux. France’s Decaux, the maker of the famous Paris Sanisette automatic self cleaning toilets, is in reality a huge advertising business with billions of Euros in annual  revenue.  While Paris pays JC Deaux to build and maintain the Sanisette’s, the company has been very successful with a … Continue reading

More Tour de France Coverage From Bicycling.com Mobile

Thanks to a tip from a Wap Review reader I discovered that Bicycling Magazine has a slick mobile site with live Tour de France coverage. It also features general cycling and cycle racing news and regular reports from the Bicycling Magazine columnists. In addition to live Tour coverage, which only seems to appear on the site while a stage is in progress, there’s a dedicated Tour section with features on individual riders, a look at some of the Tour bikes … Continue reading