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 2118 mobile sites. Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio/Video Tubidy tubidy.mobi Tubidy is a new mobile front end to YouTube. Browse or [...]
Regular WapReview readers know I’m a big fan of browser bookmarkets, snippets of JavaScript in a browser bookmark that automate repetitive tasks in the browser. Bookmarklets let you post links to Twitter or Delicious with just a couple taps. And that’s just the beginning, bookmarklets can simplify tasks like creating short URLs, subscribing to feeds [...]
Everyone wants a piece of the local market. Yelp said “no way” to Google’s $500M acquisition bid and went on this week to take $100M more funding. That doesn’t mean everyone is scared of Yelp. They merely want to copy its success, and bury it in the ground (or acquire it… if the whole burying [...]
Universal Music Group (UMG) is expanding its direct-to-consumer mobile content and services offering for music fans through an agreement with mobile publishing platform, Netbiscuits. As part of the agreement, UMG will leverage Netbiscuits' B2B web software platform to launch mobile websites and services for UMG’s broad array of popular artists. By doing so, UMG says [...]
Colibria has released the results of research that reveals that has found that an overwhelming proportion of British mobile phone owners want access to RCS (Rich Communication Suite) features. The survey was carried out online by YouGov between 6 – 8 January 2010 among a nationally representative sample of 2,361 adults. The research found that [...]
Mobile marketing and digital content firm mmCHANNEL has launched a new b2b API (Application Programming Interface) Service, which will enable any digital agency or brand to launch their own digital download store as part of a marketing campaign.The digital store can be built into an existing mobile portal or website. Customers can then choose whether [...]
Level 3 Communications is working with software publishing company Zolmo to deliver caching, on-demand video content and geo-targeting services for the Jamie Oliver ‘20 Minute Meals’ iPhone application. The app is a mobile digital cookbook, offering step-by-step instructions, full screen photography, a shopping list feature, and high-quality videos that that users can follow to create [...]
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said that is now allowing advertisers to embed phone numbers into mobile ads so that customers can click to call. The ads will work on phones with high-end browsers, including the iPhone, Android or other smartphones, and will be based on the person’s location, the company said on its blog. That way [...]
Firefox Mobile – Truncated header background Talk about good timing! Just as I was about try Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) on the N900 I have on loan from WOMWorld, Mozilla released a new version. It’s RC3 and is said to include significant performance and stability improvements, however Flash is disabled by default in this release [...]
When it comes to traditional search, there’s really no one that can top Google’s dominance in the space. Mobile search, however, is still fair game to anyone who makes the right moves. Google is making huge strides to extend its reach into the mobile space, but it may be too little too soon. What began [...]
