Tag Archives: Tech News

Found on the Mobile Web 255

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

Found on the Mobile Web is a regular 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 2305 mobile sites.

Science & Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs

TechRadar m.techradar.com The UK's bigest tech news and reviews site's mobile edition includes all the desktop site's content in an attractive and easy to navigate format.
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TrustedReviews www.trustedreviews.com As the name suggests this is primarily a tech review site covering smartphones, cameras, video and audio gear and PC and peripherals. There's also an extensive tech news section.
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Science & Tech/Mobile/Operators/Sprint

Inside Sprint Now insidesprintnow.wordpress.com Frequently updated news blog covering US CDMA operator Sprint/Nextel. Written by an anonymous Sprint customer care representative, it's an excellent source of breaking news about new Sprint products, plans and policies.
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Travel-Transit/Destination Guides

Places To Visit UK www.places-to-visit.mobi A guide to the UK's major attractions and places to visit. Listings include descriptions, photos, address, phone numbers, maps and links to nearby dinning, lodging and transportation listings. Seems like a useful site although the phone numbers in listings are not click to call and the auto-playing audio track on the home page is very annoying.
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Science & Tech/Mobile/News - Reviews

Nitish Kumar's Blog nitishkumar.net Popular mobile tech blog whose byline is "Layman's take on technology. Doesn't need to have a super brain. Just do your bit". Covers primarily mobile tech, especially Nokia devices, and mobile apps with profusely illustrated in-depth reviews.
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Entertainment and Leisure/Games

Word Libs for Mobile m.wordlibs.com Play Mad Libs online with you phone. Enter random parts of speech as prompted and Mad Libs for Mobile will create a possibly funny, but more likely, nonsensical story.
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Business/Banking and Payments/Non-US Banks

ING DIRECT (AU) mobile.ingdirect.com.au The mobile site of Australia’s largest online bank. In addition to the usual
mobile banking features it has a section listing current interest rates.
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Science & Tech/Mobile/Operators

Cricket Users Forum www.cricketusers.com/forum.php?styleid=28 Independent user forum for Cricket Wireless (US prepaid operator) users. Information and discussions on everything related to Cricket including how to flash Sprint and Verizon phones to Cricket.
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Science & Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development

@ The Pastry Box Project the-pastry-box-project.net/ Group blog on the topic "Shaping The Web". Thirty well known web designers and web standards experts take turns discussing their work and ideas with a new post every day.
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webdev360 webdev360.com A web and mobile development portal targeted at web developers and designers and featuring news, interviews, event write-ups, opinions and analysis.
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Found On the Mobile Web 254

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

News/International/Europe

BBC Beta m.bbc.co.uk/news The BBC's new site for mobile devices. Built with mobile first responsive design techniques, it's designed to adapt to a range of devices from feature phones with 240px wide screens and no JavaScript support up to seven inch tablets with 720x1280 px screens. If your are interested in the details, the BBC designers have shared their design goals and methodology and their testing methods in a couple of interesting blog posts. Via Stephanie Rieger
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Science & Tech

Scitable www.nature.com/scitable A free science library and personal learning tool from the publisher of Nature and Scientific American.

Scitable concentrates on genetics and cell biology, including evolution, gene expression, and the cellular processes shared by living organisms. Also offers resources for the young scientist, including advice about effective science communication and career paths.
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Search/Local

SelfStorage m.selfstorage.com Online directory of over 5,000 US self storage facilities. Search by city, address or zip. Listings include maps, photos, prices, hours. Book a space online or click to call. Some facilities offer discount pricing for SelfStorage.com users.
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Diaroogle Toilet Search www.diaroogle.com Crowd sourced directory of free public toilets in Manhattan, New York City. Search for a restroom by address, cross street, zip, neighborhood, landmark or park.

Listings include a Google, map, address, hours, walking directions from the establishment's front door to the loo for well hidden ones, ratings for privacy, cleanliness and accessibility, and in some cases a photo of the facilities.
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Science & Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs

Ogbongeblog m.ogbongeblog.com Jide Ogunsanya's tech blog has mobile phone reviews, PC and blogging tips, iPad tutorials and more. Mobile version created with Mobstac.
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Sports/Soccer

Football Pool EC 2012 ek2012.voetbalpoule.mobi An online social game where you predict the outcome of Euro 2012 soccer football matches to compete for points against other users. Also soccer news and schedules.
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News/International/Middle East

gulfnews m.gulfnews.com Mobile web edition of an English language daily print newspaper published in Dubai, UAE
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Entertainment and Leisure/Games

Useful Chess m.usefulchess.com A mobile webapp that plays chess. Works in most browsers with JavaScript support, including Opera Mini. The site also has articles on chess openings and tactics and a chess glossary.
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Science & Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development

laura frank www.doingandthinking.com Web designer Laura Frank's personal and tech blog covering design, tooling for web designers and her other interests including film. The site's lightweight responsive desigh works well in most mobile browsers
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Search/Local/Restaurants

Snapfinger www.snapfinger.com/mobile A geolocation enabled webapp that detects your location and lists nearby restaurants (US only) that offer delivery or takeout. You can view menus and place your order online.
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Found On The Mobile Web 253

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development

onderhond onderhond.com Web front-end developer Niels Matthijs' personal and professional blog has articles on web design plus movie reviews and a gallery on Niels' travel photos. He recently redesigned the site using responsive design principles so that it reflows to a single column in modern mobile browsers 320 px and wider. You can read about the redesign on the site.
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Social Media/Twitter

Tweet9 tweet9.tk Another attractive re-skinning of the dabr open source Twitter client. The eye pleasing design is inspired by the Twitter for Android app. Features include long tweets (more than 140 characters) using TwtMore, the ability to upload your Twitter profile and background images and photo uploading using the Twitter Photo Upload API.

The same author also offers a black and florid green (or pink) re-skinning of Dabr at twbird.tk
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Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs

TechnoBuffalo www.technobuffalo.com Launched in 2009, TechnoBuffalo has grown quickly to become one of the top US-based tech blogs. Content includes tech news, reviews, tech tips and lots of videos.The attractive mobile view, a custom WordPress theme, includes all the site's content, including the videos. It works well in smartphone browsers and Opera Mini.
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Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs

GSMArena m.gsmarena.com One of the top mobile technology news sites. GSMArena's mobile edition includes the three most popular features of the desktop site; the latest mobile news, handset reviews and a comprehensive database of mobile phone specifications.
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Entertainment and Leisure/Literature

Wattpad Touch touch.wattpad.com/search Touchscreen version of the Wattpad eBook site. Wattpad is a community of readers and authors where anyone can publish stories for all to read. Wattpad has native book reader apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Java ME and you can also read online using a reader webapp on the site. There's also a version of Wattpad.com optimized for feature phones at m.wattpad.com
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Tech/Mobile/BookMarking

Notesi www.notesi.com/mobileonlinebookmarks.jsp A free service providing secure, private, cloud based storage for your browser bookmarks. Notesi makes your bookmarks available in all your browsers on all your devices.
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News/Politics

CNN Political Ticker politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com With the US presidential election year in full swing, CNN's political blog is jumping. The mobile friendly site is updated throughout the day with current US political news and analysis.

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ICTs for Development ict4dblog.wordpress.com From researchers at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Development Informatics, ICTs for Development covers the use information and communication technologies to encourage socio-economic development.
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FAILFaire failfaire.org The blog of FAILFaire, a conference focused on learning from failed ICT4D projects.

ICT4D is an acronym for "information and communication technologies for development" which means using technology, especially computers, web and mobile, to enable and encourage socioeconomic growth and human rights. Examples include the One Laptop per Child Project and MedAfrica, which lets rural users connect to doctors and medical information using basic mobile phones.

Not all projects are successes. FAILFaire aims to help ICT4D professionals and participants learn how to succeed by analyzing what didn't work.
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Science/Tech

Nature nature.com Founded in 1869, Nature is one of the most respected scientific journals in the world. It publishes original research from all branches of science as well editorials, book reviews and feature articles of interest to the scientific community.

Nature's desktop website got a "responsive design" makeover yesterday and now adapts itself to mobile viewport widths. Unlike most responsive designs which work in both landscape and portrait orientation, Nature seems to expect mobile users to view the site in landscape only. The site's layout looked rather jumbled to me in portrait using the Android Gingerbread, Symbian Belle, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers but was find when I switched to landscape. Via: @Microflash
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Found on the Mobile Web #251

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development

Move the Web Forward movethewebforward.org A "Responsive Web Design" promoting web developer community involvement in open standards. Links to web design and development resources and places where you can contribute to creating and promoting open standards.
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Search/Local

Nokia Places m.nokia.me/p?nord Local search engine powered by Nokia Maps. Results include address, a small map and click to call phone numbers
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Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs

AfriGadget afrigadget.com Bamboo laptop cases, generating biogas from cow manure; boats, airplanes and soccer balls made from recycled materials. These are just a few of the hundreds of the amazing creations found in Afrigadget, a blog celebrating the ingenuity of African inventors and tinkers.
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Tech/Mobile/MobileTech

jQuery Mobile Gallery www.jqmgallery.com A gallery and directory of mobile sites and apps built with JQuery Mobile.
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Tech/Mobile/OS - Brand Specific/WebOS/Palm OS

webOS | Getting started www.hpwebos.com/us/products/software/webos/gettingstarted... It's probably a little late to post this, but I just discovered these mobile friendly Getting Started video tutorials and tips for new webOS users from HP. The well made videos do a great job of demonstrating the largely unrealized potential of WebOS.
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Business/News

MarketingProfs m.marketingprofs.com Tips, advice, and news for marketing professionals from a team of PROFessors and PROFessionals. Some content is behind a paywall but the majority of articles are free.

There's currently a bug in the mobile template that causes every other headline on the front page to link to the desktop version of the article rather than the mobile one to the consternation of users with a slow connection or metered data plans.
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Search/Maps and Directions

Nokia Maps m.maps.nokia.com Nokia Maps beta mobile webapp for Android and iOS is location aware, and supports paning and zooming.
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Entertainment and Leisure/Life Style/Women's Interest

Real Beauty m.realbeauty.com Mobile edition of Hearst Publishing's online magazine, Real Beauty. Features hair, makeup, skincare, and fitness tips. The site's mobile template design is by Crisp Wireless
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Entertainment and Leisure/Games

Braineez braineez.mobie.in Braineez lets you win virtual trophies, shields, cups, medals, badges etc. by participating in competitions like quizzes or an essay writing contest.
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Shopping/Stores

AGRICH agrich.mobi An illustrated online mobile seed catalog . Shop for seeds and plants. AGRICH sells vegetable, herb and flower seeds and plants, trees and shrubs in retail and wholesale quantities. Pay with PayPal or set up a wholesale account. US based company ships seeds worldwide.
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