Found On The Mobile Web #250

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 2365 mobile sites. Entertainment and Leisure jwz www.jwz.org/blog/ An entertaining and popular blog by Netscape and Mozilla.org, founder and developer(XEmacs) turned nightclub operator/restaurateur Jamie Zawinski. On his blog, Jamie covers everything from techie conundrums to hardware hacking to all the weird and wacky stuff … Continue reading

Fans Get Daily Updates From the New England Patriot’s Mobile Site

The New England Patriots are historically one of the winningest teams in the NFL and their mobile site is pretty good too, at least if you have a fairly capable handset. The attractive and easy to navigate design is by Quattro Wireless. Browser detection is used to optimize image and page sizes to work well with a wide range of phones. The minimum page weight of 32 KB is too large for some low-end feature phones, however. The site features … Continue reading

Canada’s “The Score” Goes Mobile

The Score  is a  Canadian cable TV sports chanel.  The Score’s mobile site ( m.thescore.com) covers all major North American professional sports with news, information, highlights, schedules, betting line and live scores. As befits the name, The Score Mobile’s front pages consists of the latest live scores for a single sport, currently NBA basketball.  You can customize The Score Mobile to show a different sport or league on the front page and adjust the auto refresh frequency and set your … Continue reading

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

CTIA: Yahoo Fantasy Football

Along with oneConnect and extending the BluePrint widget platform to allow the creation of standalone mobile apps and site Yahoo made another announcement at CTIA. It’s the mobile edition of Yahoo Fantasy Football (m.yahoo.com/fantasy). Fantasy sports leagues have a huge following around the world and especially in North America. The basic idea is that you form a league with your friends. Each participant owns one or more teams. The league holds a draft where each owner picks players for his … Continue reading