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Found on the Mobile Web 255

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Found on the Mobile Web is a regular 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 2305 mobile sites. Science & Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs TechRadar m.techradar.com The UK’s bigest tech news and reviews site’s mobile edition includes all the desktop site’s content in an attractive and easy to navigate format. Content: Usability: TrustedReviews www.trustedreviews.com As the name suggests this is … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #225

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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 2296 mobile sites. Local Search Parking Assistant www.anagog.com/wa/ A Google maps mashup the uses the Geolocation JavaScript API to create a map showing nearby parking lots. Green and red icons indicate free and paid lots, respectively Although the developer calls it an “iPhone … Continue reading →

Virgin Mobile US to Bundle Opera Mini

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At CTIA, Opera Software and Virgin Mobile USA (VM) announced a deal where the operator will bundle Opera Mini with future handsets.  In the US, Virgin Mobile is a join venture between Richard Branson’s  Virgin Group and Sprint/Nextel. Starting April 14th, users of eight current Virgin Mobile phones will be able to download Opera Mini 4.2 for free from the VirginXL on-deck app store.  Although eight phones are said to be supported, Virgin has only named four; the Samsung M310 … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #165

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This week’s Carnival is hosted by Vanessa Measoma  at VisionMobile.  In typical blog carnival style it highlights and links to the best recent blog posts on mobile topics from around the web. Lot’s of talk in this Carnival about App Stores but other aspects of mobility are not neglected.  There are pieces on mobile design, network technologies, mobile startup strategies for dealing with network operators and Google’s latest rollouts; Google Voice and “behavioural” search targeting. Congradulations to Ajit Jaokar for … Continue reading →

Sprint’s Mobile Web Friendly Open Location Platform

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Image courtesy of WaveMarket US mobile operator, Sprint recently announced a couple of new ways for third party developers to create location aware applications and mobile web services.  What Sprint has done is to partner with two companies, WaveMarket and uLocate’s Where.com, who both act as intermediaries between Sprint and content providers.  Developers and publishers  no longer have to partner with Sprint in order to get access to location data.  WaveMarket and uLocate will handle the entire relationship including  serving the location data and … Continue reading →