Tag Archives: local search

Found On The Mobile Web #193

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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 2057 mobile sites. Search/Local/City and Campus Guides Qype UK m.qype.co.uk/mobile Similar to Yelp but for the UK only, Qype UK offers a directory of user generated reviews for local businesses such as restaurants, stores and hotels. Again like Yelp, Qype is a community … Continue reading →

Find Your Palm Pre With Sprint’s Mobile Store Locator

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If you are a customer, or prospective customer of U.S. CDMA operator, Sprint or just want to play with the Sprint exclusive Palm Pre, you might find this mobile site useful. It lets you quickly locate company owned and independent stores selling Sprint phones and service. A free-form search box accepts a zip-code, street address or city and state. Results include store hours, available services, click to call phone number and a link to text based turn by turn driving … 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 →

Found on the Mobile Web #50

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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.com mobile site directory.  With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1351 mobile sites. Credit to  Oh! Mobile Directory for discovering the majority of these sites. Travel-Transit/Transit Vancouver TransLink m.translink.ca Schedules for bus, train and ferry service operated by Vancouver, BC’s TransLink public transit agency.  The site also features the agency’s blog.  An iPhone … Continue reading →