Carnival of the Mobilists #252

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

Photo: Fabiana Zonca – Some rights reserved Welcome to the latest edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, a recurring showcase of the best recent blog posts on mobile topics. This month’s Carnival offers a fine selection of posts from all areas of the mobile ecosystem. In The End of Cross-Platform Mobile Operating Systems Richard Monson-Haefel at Ambient Strategic Mobility argues that tightly integrated mobile ecosystems à la iOS are the key to success for mobile platforms. Agree or disagree? Sachendra Yadav at Technology, … Continue reading →

Opera Launches Appcelerate Program For Mobile App Developers

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

Yesterday at APPNATION Opera Software announced the availability of Appcelerate, a program intended to help with the discovery, distribution and monitization of mobile apps. Appcelerate lets developers place their apps in the Opera Mobile Store, a web based app store at mobilestore.opera.com/ that works in all browsers. The Opera Mobile Store is a featured Speed Dial link on the start page in Opera Mini, the world most popular mobile browser with over 100,000 users. The Opera Mobile Store is available … Continue reading →

Making Money In Mobile – Issues and Strategy

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Photo: Some rights reserved by AMagill One of the recurring themes at this week’s Mobile 2.0 conference was how exactly do you make money in mobile? It was the topic of a couple of panels but no clear answer emerged. In talking with other attendees during breaks I found a fairly high level of frustration about revenue opportunities in mobile. It’s not easy for free lance app developers and mobile web publishers to make a living from their work. Most … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #229

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

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 2328 mobile sites. NFL Yahoo! Fantasy Football m.yahoo.com/fantasy Yahoo has updated their Fantasy Football Android, iPhone and mobile web apps for the 2010 NFL season with a new design and improved usability. All three versions of Yahoo! Fantasy Football are free. Features include: … Continue reading →

Straight Talk – $45 Unlimited Talk, Text, Data, Roaming and 3rd Party Apps On AT&T

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Dennis Bournique

Mexico based América Móvil, the fourth largest mobile network in the world, doesn’t have a network of it’s own in the US but operates the country’s largest MVNO under the TracFone banner with subsidiary brands Net10, Safelink and StraightTalk. The latter has been offering unlimited talk, text in and data for $45/month since late last year. Straight Talk phones are only available online and at Wal-Mart stores. While Straight Talk is attractive to heavy talkers and texters, the data part … Continue reading →

nokiaAAddict: Great Reviews, Rants and Apps

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Gerry Moth’s nokiAAddict.com is an indispensable site for Nokia and Symbian users whether they are actual addicts or just trying to get their phones to do what they want them to. Gerry reviews the latest hardware and software but the best part of the site for me is its directory of S60 3rd and 5th apps. When you need an an app, avoid the frustrations of the Ovi Store and doggy download sites and head directly to nokiAAddict’s Downloads page … Continue reading →

BlackBerry Tips and Downloads

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

As a new user of an old BlackBerry 7100i, I’ve been making heavy use of the LazyWeb and its offspring, the LazyMobile Web to learn the secrets of this powerful but quirky device and to find games and apps to download. Here are quick reviews of a couple of BlackBerry specific mobile sites I’ve found useful. I’ve added them to the WapReview Directory’s BlackBerry section. BlackBerryTrade (mobile.blackberrytrade.com) is a relatively new BlackBerry news blog, user forum and download site. The … Continue reading →

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