Found on the Mobile Web 48

Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional 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 1293 mobile sites. News/International/Europe NewsNow (nnmob.com) which claims to be “The UK’s #1 News Portal” is a River of News style aggregator which is updated every five minutes with news headlines from hundreds of online sources around the world.  The mobile page includes just the headline … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web 47

Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional 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 1271 mobile sites. Entertainment/Gossip Gossip Bucket (m.gossipbucket.com) Another new site from MobileInfocenter, publisher of MobilityBeat, Tech News Tube and Mac Hash. Like the other MobileInfoCenter sites (review), Gossip Bucket is a topic-specific feed aggregator.  The topic is celebrity gossip and the content is pulled from sites like Perez Hilton, Gawker, E! Online, Defamer, People, … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web 46

Welcome to Found on the Mobile Web, a semi-regular feature at WapReview where I list, describe and link to sites recently added to the WapReview Mobile Directory and YesWap.mobi mobile portal.  With these latest additions the directory and portal now contain 1251 mobile sites. Sports/Soccer Football.365 (f365-za.com/w/f365m)  South African based football (soccer) news site recommended by Naiyer of oh.dirlink.mobi The site covers the sport around the world with news, results and columns. There are dedicated news pages for the English … Continue reading

nayaNews -The Latest News From Multiple Sites

nayaNews.mobi – From the creators of the myToday personal mobile portal comes nayaNews.  It’s a news aggregator in the style of Google News but with an emphasis on Indian and Asian news.  nayaNews pulls the latest stories from the RSS feeds of a  variety of Indian and world news sources including Sify.com, ZeeNews.com, NDTV.com, the Times of India, DNA – India, the BBC, Asian Age and the Business Standard.  Stories are organized into sections: News, Business,  Tech, World and Sports. … Continue reading

Found On The Mobile Web 45

Welcome to Found on the Mobile Web, a semi-regular feature at WapReview where we list, describe and link to sites recently added to the WapReview Mobile Directory and YesWap.mobi mobile portal.  With these latest additions the directory and portal now contain 1223 mobile sites. In News/International/Africa Mmegi Mobile (mmegi.bw)  The mobile edition of Mmegi, the only independent daily newspaper in the African Repubic of Botswana.  The site offers a nice mix of content including a half a dozen or so … Continue reading

The Telegraph’s New Free Mobile Site

The Daily Telegraph is the UK’s largest newspaper in terms of circulation,  The paper was also one of the first to adopt digital distribution, launching its first web site in 1994. They’ve had a mobile site for while too but I never really paid much attention to it as it’s a £5/month subscription deal.  The pay version still seems to be available but I guess not many people were willing to pay the equivalent of $10/month to read the news … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web #43

Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional 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 1181 mobile sites. Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio MoviePreviews (mpviews.com) This site has dozens of streaming videos including trailers for recent movie releases, TV show previews and video game demos.  The videos are in the 144x176px h263 format which is supported by almost all modern phones. … Continue reading

Christian Science Monitor – Text-Only Site

The Christian Science Monitor is a US based, independent daily news paper which is owned by the Church of Christ, Scientist. I’m not a religious person and even if I was I don’t think I’d be a Christian Scientist. I mean, substituting prayer for doctors and medicine when you get sick – no thanks. But I can’t fault the Church for publishing the Monitor. It’s a well respected news source which avoids sensationalism and jingoism and has long championed civil … Continue reading