Tag Archives: Tech News

Found On The Mobile Web #250

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

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 he finds on the web and in real life.

jwz is a Responsive Web Design (RWD) site that adapts itself to fit narrow mobile browser viewports.
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Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs

@akumar overflow b.akumar.me An interesting and mobile friendly blog from Amit Kumar, former product direct for Yahoo Search and founder and CEO of Lexity, an online marketing for small businesses startup. A self described hacker, Amit blogs frequently on topics ranging from web design to tech trends to iPhone apps. I especially liked his recent piece on Google's Search+ changes A layperson’s explanation of rel=nofollow: Twitter’s stuck, but Google’s being coy.
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Tech/Mobile/MobileTech

HTML5 for Web Developers developers.whatwg.org The HTML 5 spec in a responsive web design from WHATWG that works well in modern mobile (and desktop) browsers.
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Tech/Mobile/News - Reviews

cellular-news www.cellular-news.com London based online trade publication that has been covering wireless telecommunications since 1998. The site publishes an average of 50 items a day.
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Sports/NFL

Pro Football Reference m.pfref.com Comprehensive NFL statistics for each player, team, coach and league in pro football history including award winners and all-time, season and team leaders for passing, rushing, etc. Also schedules and box scores back to 1940.
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Entertainment and Leisure/Life Style/Women's Interest

Cosmopolitan m.cosmopolitan.com Targeted at young women, Hearst's Cosmo emphases articles on relationships and sex along with beauty, fashion and lifestyle tips.
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Entertainment and Leisure/Games

Chess Elo www.mobile.chesselo.com This site provides a simple explanation of the Elo chess rating system works. It also provides chess puzzles for intermediate players and chess beginners.
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Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development

AddyOsmani.com addyosmani.com/blog/ AOL Web developer Addy Osmani's popular blog covering jQuery, CSS, Javascript, User Interface design and other topics of interest to developers and designers. The site is built using responsive design techniques and adapts itself to work well both on the desktop and in modern mobile browsers, including Opera Mini.
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net magazine m.netmagazine.com Online mobile edition of the world's best-selling print magazine for web designers and developers. Based in London .net was founded in 1994.
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News/Politics

Say It Ain't So Already sayitaintsoalready.com A lively and frequently updated blog from ex-reporter and professional gardener @melaniekv wherein she looks at US politics, pop culture and more.
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Found on the Mobile Web #247

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

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 Launched 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 handles the mobile browser detection and optimization.
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Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs

Arcane Code arcanecode.com The personal tech blog of longtime developer and Microsoft MVP Robet C. Cain. Covers software development using SQL Server and Microsoft .NET languages and tools. The focus is tools, add-ons and techniques to make your coding easier, more fun and more productive.
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MediaNama www.medianama.com A high traffic and frequently updated news blog covering telecom, Internet and digital media businesses in India.

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

3-Lib Mobile Web Guide stevelitchfield.com/webguidereal.htm Steve Litchfield's (The Phones Show host and a frequent contributor to All About Symbian) hand selected directory of mobile web sites. 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

Curated Symbian App Store stevelitchfield.com/appstore.htm Another site from Steve Litchfield. For this one Steve has sorted thru the cruft and spamware that infests all app stores, including the Ovi Nokia Store, to create this concise directory of worthwhile apps for Symbian phones.
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GoHandee m.gohandee.com A new mobile file sharing and user submitted content site. Share and download mobile wallpapers, ringtones, videos and music.
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Business/News

abouTourism aboutourism.wordpress.com News 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 for more about WordPress' mobile obtimisation.
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Entertainment and Leisure/Life Style/Food

Ninefood www.ninefood.com/mobile A food-based social networking site, where users can share their favorite 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 updates on Twitter.
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Shopping/Stores

Debenhams m.debenhams.com Debenhams 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, £10.00 for most orders to the US for example .

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

Calkoo www.calkoo.com/mobile.php Calkoo.com is a big collection of free online calculators and converters, over 30 in all including tools 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 #246

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

Tech/Mobile/News - Reviews

Pocketnow m.pocketnow.com Online since 2000, Pocketnow is one of the oldest sites covering mobile tech. Originally focused on Windows Mobile, today's Pocketnow covers all the smartphone platforms with an emphasis on Windows Phone, Android, and iPhone. Frequently updtaed with the latest reviews, news and videos.
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Social Media

SMS4buddy m.sms4buddy.com Canned SMS messages for every occasion including famous quotes, expressions of love and friendship, jokes, inspirational sayings and advice.

The site has buttons for sharing a message on Twitter and Facebook but there's no button to send the message as a text. The site does provide the message in a textarea for easy copying but it would be nice to also have a "Text this:" link using the sms: URI scheme, though not all phones support sms:. Some that don't use smsto: instead.
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SocialTimes socialtimes.com News website covering the people, business and culture of social media. Covers Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites and services and the people creating and using them.
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RSS - Blogging

Global Voices globalvoicesonline.org An independent non-profit that aggregates the best posts by over 300 bloggers and citizen reporters from around the world with an emphasis on non-Western and underrepresented writers.

The site advocates for freedom of expression and provides a place where censored voices can be heard. Global Voices is translated into 30 languages.
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Meme Trackers

iHackerNews.com ihackernews.com Hacker News is a socially curated tech news site somewhat like Reddit, but more closely focused on (ethical) hacking and startups. iHackerNews.com is @ronnieroller's mobile front end to Hacker News. via: Paul Roget's Blog
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Entertainment and Leisure/Life Style

Scoper - Horoscopes scoper.info A simple, single purpose site, Scooper serves up your free daily horoscope in a mobile friendly format.
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Mail-IM-Talk-PIM/Productivity and PIM

Jotminder www.jotminder.mobi Jotminder is a free cloud-based personal online wiki notepad. Store your notes, pictures, files and links in the cloud. Access Jotminder using desktop or mobile - smartphone, tablet, iphone, ipad, etc. Notes are secure and can be private or public. Via: Mobile Mammoth
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Business/Banking and Payments/Non-US Banks

Santander UK m.santander.co.uk Mobile online banking for Sandander UK Bank customers. Features include: Viewing account and credit card balances and account details, view recent transactions, transfer funds between accounts, make a payment to an existing payee and view cancel and amend pending transactions.
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Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development

Paul Rouget's Blog paulrouget.com Paul Rouget is a developer at Mozilla who also presents at tech events. He blogs about Web and browser development and design and occasionally mobile. His post "Mobile Web: Taiwan, Opera and WebOS" is a must read for mobile designers and developers. Paul's blog, which I'm guessing runs on his code rather than an off the shelf CMS, works equally well in both desktop and reasonably capable mobile browsers.
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Entertainment and Leisure/Mobile Video-Audio/Video

Abctv.mobi abctv.mobi Portal and search engine for streaming TV stations from arond the world in all languages. Live online Television in Windows Media Player, Winamp, Real Player and 3gp formats. Watch and listen to live movies, news and reports on your phone. This site is not, as far as I can tell, affilaiated with the ABC TV broadcast network. in the US.
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Tech/Mobile/Operators

Virgin Mobile (USA) m.virginmobileusa.com Account management portal for customers of Virgin Mobile, one of several PayGo brands operated by Sprint PCS in the US. Features include viewing your call and message logs and current cash balance, adding funds, changing plans and changing your account PIN.
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Found On The Mobile Web 244

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dennis Bournique

Travel-Transit/Destination Guides

Tampere 1918 zones.zonear.com/tampere1918 Interactive mobile guide to the new "Tampere 1918" exhibit at Museum Centre Vapriikki in Tampere, Finland . The exhibition covers the tragic Finnish Civil War of 1918 in which 40,000 people were killed in four months fighting between the Red and the White Guards.

The HTML5 mobile guide includes an interactive floor plan of the exhibition space with audio narrative and historical photos. It was developed by a Finnish startup Zonear Ltd and can be used with any touch screen mobile device with a modern browser.
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Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs

Techcraver techcraver.com Techcraver.com is Jason Harris' blog covering mobile hardware, applications, platforms, software, web services, consumer electronics and other technology and how they affect people and society.

Jason is a solutions architect, developer and freelance writer whose content has been published by GigaOm, Web Worker Daily, CMSWire and WOMWorld/Nokia.
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Many Possibilities manypossibilities.mobstac.com Steve Song's lively and frequently updated blog covers telecoms in Africa, open source and the societal impact of telecomunications and the Web. The attractive mobile template is by MobStac. Source: Venture Capital for Africa
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Tech/Internet

Web AddiCT(s); www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Philips and Miguel Dos Santos cover web technology, social media, business strategies, fair use, open source and the South African tech scene. The blog's name is an acronym for Web “2.0″, Applications, Developments, Designs & Innovation in Cape Town. Source: 30 Great African Tech Blogs.
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Mail-IM-Talk-PIM

Me Card www.servletsuite.com/meshare/ MECARD is new format for sharing contact information. A MECARD is a single line of text containing all of the meta data needed to populate an address book entry; name, address, telephone number, email address and URL.

The Me Card webapp from Coldtags Suite saves the contact information you enter in HTML5 local storage and creates a QRCode containing your MECARD. It works with most mobile barcode scanners and operating systems. I used it successfully with Barcode Scanner on Android and UpCode on a Nokia N8
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Reference - Tools

Baby Names www.babynames.ch/Mobile Find the perfect name for a your new baby. This mobile site has a lot of features. You can:

Enter a name to view its meaning, language of origin, languages of use, rank in the top 500 names and name variants.
List all names starting with a letter or letters
List the most popular names for girls and boys in the US or England and Wales
Generate 140 or 160 charchter name blurbs for Twitter or SMS

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Entertainment and Leisure/Theater and Dance

All World Dance www.dnce.mobi Published by dance scholar, dance fan, former dancer and choreographer Clyde Smith, All World Dance provides daily news about the world of dance across genres from ballet to breakdancing.
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Social Networking/Twitter

xTweets xtweets.mobi xTweets is a Twitter mobile directory for mobile webmasters that was built with XtGem. It fetches your latest tweets and displays them, with a link to your mobile site, in a timeline with tweets from other xTweets users. The service is free, all you need is a Twitter account.
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Tweet In insyt.mobi/tweet/ Full featured twitter web client optimised for mobile and touch devices by inSyt.mobi. Tweet, reply, retweet, share, follow, follow back, unfollow, direct message, favorite, lists, twitpic, search, trends and more.
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Tech/Mobile/OS/Brand Specific/MeeGo

MeeGo News meegonews.com Dhruv Bhutani's MeeGo News is my favorite independent source for the latest news about the MeeGo OS. The site's writers include Steve ‘Chippy’ Paine from CarryPad.com and Christopher McFann from Symbian-Freak.
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