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Found on the Mobile Web<\/em> is a weekly WAP Review<\/em> feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com<\/a> mobile portal and WapReview<\/a> mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2359 mobile sites.<\/p>\n

Tech\/Linux<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"OMG!<\/a><\/p>\n

OMG! Ubuntu! <\/em><\/strong> m.omgubuntu.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Launched in 2009 and targeted at mainstream users, OMG! Ubuntu has quickly grown to be the most popular and fastest growing Ubuntu-specific website. Updated daily, it features the latest Ubuntu news, application updates, and releases along with opinion pieces, interviews, polls, tips, tutorials and more. WordPress Mobile Pack<\/a> handles the mobile browser detection and optimization.
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Tech\/Tech News Sites and Blogs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Arcane<\/a><\/p>\n

Arcane Code<\/em><\/strong> arcanecode.com<\/a>\u00a0The personal tech blog of longtime developer and Microsoft MVP Robet C. Cain. Covers software development using SQL Server and\u00a0 Microsoft .NET languages and tools.\u00a0 The focus is tools, add-ons and techniques to make your coding easier, more fun and more productive.
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\"MediaNama\"<\/a><\/p>\n

MediaNama <\/em><\/strong> www.medianama.com<\/a>\u00a0A high traffic and frequently updated news blog covering telecom, Internet and digital media businesses in India.<\/p>\n

Medianama focuses on providing intelligence for investors and entrepreneurs with an emphasis on topics like government policy and regulation, mergers, acquisitions, VC & PE investments, metrics, earnings reports and IPO, legal, IP and patent related news as well as digital advertising.
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Portals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"3-Lib<\/a><\/p>\n

3-Lib Mobile Web Guide<\/em><\/strong> stevelitchfield.com\/webguidereal.htm<\/a> Steve Litchfield’s (The Phones Show<\/a> host and a frequent contributor to All About Symbian<\/a>) hand selected directory of mobile web sites.\u00a0 Not a huge collection and by Steve’s admission “somewhat UK-centric” but it has at least one of every type of site you need. All the sites listed are high quality and relatively low-bandwidth
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Tech\/Mobile\/Downloads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Curated<\/a><\/p>\n

Curated Symbian App Store<\/em><\/strong> stevelitchfield.com\/appstore.htm<\/a>\u00a0Another site from Steve Litchfield. For this one Steve has sorted thru the cruft and spamware that infests all app stores, including the Ovi<\/span> Nokia<\/em> Store<\/em>, to create this concise directory of worthwhile apps for Symbian phones.
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\"GoHandee\"<\/a><\/p>\n

GoHandee<\/em><\/strong> m.gohandee.com<\/a>\u00a0A new mobile file sharing and user\u00a0submitted\u00a0content site.\u00a0 Share and download mobile wallpapers, ringtones, videos and music.
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Business\/News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"abouTourism\"<\/a><\/p>\n

abouTourism<\/em><\/strong> aboutourism.wordpress.com<\/a>\u00a0News blog covering the tourism business. It’s a WordPress.com hosted blog and benefits from WordPress’ built-in mobile browser detection and adaptation. See: Updated: All WordPress.com Blogs Are Now Mobile Friendly<\/a>\u00a0for more about WordPress’ mobile obtimisation.
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Entertainment and Leisure\/Life Style\/Food<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ninefood\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ninefood<\/em><\/strong> www.ninefood.com\/mobile<\/a> A food-based social networking site, where users can share their\u00a0favorite dishes, review and recommend restaurants and share and upload pictures of their favorite food and drinks. FaceBook and Twitter integration lets you log into Ninefood using your Facebook credentials and share your Ninefood\u00a0\u00a0updates\u00a0on Twitter.<\/span>
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Shopping\/Stores<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Debenhams<\/em><\/strong> m.debenhams.com<\/a>\u00a0Debenhams is a large UK department store chain selling women’s, men’s and children’s clothes, jewelery and shoes as well as furniture, small appliances and gifts. It has a major online business and ships to France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, United States, Australia and New Zealand at reasonable rates, \u00a310.00 for most orders to the US for example .<\/p>\n

Debenham’s one size fits all mobile site uses JavaScript to enhance navigation on smart devices but works well if a bit slowly in most basic feature phone browsers without Javascript support,
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Reference – Tools\/Calculators – Converters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Calkoo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Calkoo<\/em><\/strong> www.calkoo.com\/mobile.php<\/a> Calkoo.com is a big collection of free online calculators and converters, over 30 in all including \u00a0tools for financial analysis, weight and measures conversion, VAT, BMI calculations, fractions to decimals, trigonometry and many more. Most of the calculators require JavaScript.
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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 2359 mobile sites. Tech\/Linux OMG! Ubuntu! m.omgubuntu.co.uk\u00a0Launched in 2009 and targeted at mainstream users, OMG! Ubuntu has quickly grown to be the most popular and fastest growing Ubuntu-specific website. Updated daily, it features the latest Ubuntu news, application updates, and releases along with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[549,414,167,358,73,1265,135,1272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15440"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15469,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions\/15469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}