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 1704 mobile sites. Technology/Internet Six Revisions m.sixrevisions.com is web designer and developer Jacob Gube’s blog. Jacob covers both design and [...]
I’ve had a couple of days to absorb what I saw and learned at Google I/O. Here’s my take on the conference, especially as it relates to mobile. First, it was the best run technical event I’ve ever attended. Not only were the sessions very well presented and useful for anyone working with or interested [...]
Version 1.0 of the Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and Symbian S60 3rd edition was released on Wednesday. I saw the announcement during the Google I/O keynote but I was so busy covering the event that I only got around to downloading the new release today. It probably took a little longer [...]
Will Nokia (NYSE: NOK) ever crack the US market? The Finnish handset giant’s upcoming flagship phone the N97 has not yet been picked up by any American carrier, meaning that it goes on sale in June for the hefty, non-subsidized price of $699, roughly $400 more than the iPhone and the Pre, which it is [...]
It doesn’t matter which way you slice it: It’s looking like Sprint’s exclusive on the highly anticipated Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre may only last for six months. Yesterday, Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam said during a webcast, that it plans to start offering the Palm Pre in the next six months or so, and a spokesman [...]
Mobile messaging platform provider Mobile Commons has closed its first round of funding—an undisclosed sum raised from Greenhill SAVP and Zelkova Ventures. Steve Brotman (pictured, right), Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP, will join the Mobile Commons Board of Directors. This is Greenhill’s fifth online media and marketing services investment in the past 18 months. (release) [...]
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have Comes With Music, but Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has one-upped them, by jumping directly to movies. The struggling handset maker has officially unveiled “PlayNow arena with movies,” which provides up to 60 flicks for free over a 12-month period with the purchase of a select phone. Release. As [...]
A big win for Steve Sprang, the developer behind Brushes, the iPhone app artist Jorge Colombo used to create the dreamy June 1 New Yorker cover. In an interview with the nytimes.com’s Bits blog, Sprang said his app had its best-selling day on Monday since it was first released in the App Store in August, [...]
The notion of offering coupons via mobile phones has been bandied about since the earliest days of the wireless web, but now it looks like mainstream brands are increasingly convinced that consumers are willing to give them a try. On Sunday, FMCG giant Unilever will kick off a trial powered by mobile marketing startup Samplesaint.com [...]
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson unveiled a new phone today, called “Aino,” which allows users to control their PlayStation 3 while on the go. The phone puts to rest speculation on whether Sony would lend the PlayStation brand to its joint venture with Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC). However, while it will have some PlayStation functionality, it’s far [...]
