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Supermarket Stalwart Woman’s Day is now Mobile

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US shoppers are familiar with Woman’s Day magazine which is found on a rack at the checkout counter of virtually every grocery store, a marketing technique that Woman’s Day pioneered. The 72 year old magazine, which covers topics of interest to homemakers of both sexes such as food, entertaining, health, childcare and home decorating, has a new mobile edition.  Browser detection on the main womansday.com URL should deliver the mobile optimized version to phone browsers or you can go directly … Continue reading →

KeyToss Mobile Portal – Better than iGoogle?

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KeyToss (m.keytoss.com) describes itself as a “Powerful, personalizable portal for smartphones“.  I think that’s a pretty good description.  The default KeyToss home page shows a search box offering a choice of search engines, current weather forecast, recent sports scores, stock quotes, a section of news headlines and about 20 well chosen links to frequently used information like movie show times and flight status. KeyToss is highly customizable.  without even registering, users can change their location and favorite teams, choose which … Continue reading →

World Wide Coverage Maps at GSMWorld.mobi

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I spent my vacation last week roaming around the US Midwest including some time along the shores of Lake Michigan in Northeastern Wisconsin. It’s a beautiful area and the Northern latitude and breeze off the lake make it a lot more temperate than sweltering Chicago and Milwaukee. But it’s also an area were the nationwide GSM operators, ATT and T-Mobile, don’t have any towers.  My ATT GoPhone prepaid SIM was useless there but T-Mobile To Go, also prepaid, offers extensive … Continue reading →

FBI Most Wanted .mobi!

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I got an email from Mark at Idea Earth suggesting I take a look at the mobile sites they have developed. Idea Earth’s got a boatload of sites, but one jumped out at me as especially interesting and unusual was FbiMostWanted.mobi. It’s just what the name suggests, a mobile version of the famous Federal Bureau  of Investigation’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List.  The list has been around for almost 60 years and every American has no doubt seen the hard … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #43

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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 →

OpenTable Mobile – Great Concept, Poor Execution

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I love OpenTable.  If you aren’t familiar with the service, it’s an online search for available reservations at local restaurants.  You select your city, preferred  dinning time, the size of your party and optionally the neighborhood and cuisine and OpenTable returns a list all the restaurants that have availability.  It such a time saver compared with calling up restaurant after restaurant, being put on hold for five minutes and then being told “Sorry we have nothing available at that time”. … Continue reading →

Silicon.Com goes .Mobi

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CNET owned Silicon.com, a UK based news site targeted at corporate IT managers, now has a mobile edition.  The announcement is here and Silicon.com is promoting its .mobi with a link and a banner ad on the PC site’s front page.  A word of warning though, the announcement says in a big bold green font that the mobile URL is www.silicon.mobi but that address just gives me a “Page Not Found” error.  The correct  address is siliconuk.mobi which appears elsewhere … Continue reading →

The New Windows Live Mobile Portal

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Sometimes it’s hard to understand Microsoft’s Web and Mobile Web branding. There’s MSN and there’s Windows Live and I never know which one to use.  I think back in 2005 when Live was launched it was supposed to eventually replace MSN.  It was a full portal; Live Search, Live Spaces, Live HotMail, Live Messenger and a Live homepage with News and Sports. But Live as a replacement for MSN never really took off and it seems to be have been … Continue reading →