Found on the Mobile Web 170

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 1773 mobile sites. Technology/Mobile/Smartphones/Symbian SymbianOne mippin.com/symbianone News blog covering Symbian games, development tools, usage case studies, market analysis and employment opportunities. Source Anything Geospatial Content: Usability: Technology/Internet the css blog m.thecssblog.com A nice collection of very good CSS tips and tutorials in blog … Continue reading

Electricity Out? Get Status Updates On Your Mobile Phone

I think this is a mobile first. Ameren, an electric power utility serving 1.9 million customers in Illinois and Missouri has launched a mobile website that lets customers check the status of service outages. You can search for affected areas by zip code or county. You can also report if your power is out and get real time updates on the progress of restoring power to your specific home or business. The site also has customer service phone numbers (unfortunately … Continue reading

Read Web Development Articles on Your Phone

This site, called “My How To Articles” describes itself simply as a database of how to articles. It must be a bit of a puzzle to first time visitors. The user interface consists of just a search box. No browsable categories, help, “About” or suggested searches.To find out what it’s about I had to enter queries for random subjects until I got some results My first guess was home improvement tips or MacGyverisms like how to fix a leaking car … Continue reading

Scottrade Mobile – Quotes, Trading and More

U.S. discount stock broker Scottrade has a new mobile site with a rich feature set. Public features, available without login, include market research and news (markets overview, statistics, news & commentary, analyst views and a brief market calendar), stock quotes and research (news & commentary, charts, options, fundamentals, insider transactions, earnings, financials and a stock screener), ETF quotes and research (news & commentary, charts, options, performance, portfolio, expenses, Lipper rankings and ETF screener). Scottrade customers can log in to make … Continue reading

How To Get The Official Wimbledon Site on Any Mobile

The Championships at Wimbledon, the world’s premiere tennis event started yesterday and will continue through the next two weeks.  This year, the Wimbledon organizers, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, have commissioned IBM to create a mobile web site and iPhone and Android apps for the event. Sadly there’s a bit of fail with both the mobile site and the Android app.  Wimbledon.org claims that you can point your mobile browser at m.wimbledon.org for the mobile site. And … Continue reading

Found On The Mobile Web #68

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 1750 mobile sites. News Greenpeace greenpeaceuk.mobi A selection of the latest environmental news articles and videos from Greenpeace. Free enviromentally themed mobile wallpapers. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Travel-Transit/Transit NextBuses (U.K.) mytraveline.mobi Live bus times for public transit buses throughout the U.K.. … Continue reading

s*com – U.K. Based Mobile Job Search

s*com is a U.K. based recruitment agency specializing in aviation, defence, engineering, government, IT and telecoms jobs. Usability of s*com’s mobile Web site is somewhat hampered by the large banner images and several screens full of boilerplate text touting s*com’s benefits that job seekers have to scroll through to reach the search form. An advanced search form dispenses with the verbiage and allows results to be filtered by industry, permanent/contact and U.K./Rest of the World. Source: Mobility.mobi Filed in: Wap … Continue reading