Taptu, a new search engine designed specifically for mobile, is taking on Google and Yahoo! as the company claims search technology has to be made for mobile to work well on small devices.
CEO and founder of Taptu, Steve Ives, said search engines that are PC-based are not suitable for the small screen. He stated Taptu’s focus means searches can be resolved faster and provide more accurate results.
Source: Telecoms News
A new report (updated monthly) from Opera.
The mobile Web is not only for people with a smartphone, according to Opera Software’s State of the Mobile Web report, released today. Six out of the most popular phones models for Web browsing with Opera Mini are from Nokia, two are from Sony Ericsson, one is from BlackBerry, and one is from Samsung. In the United States, nine of the top 10 phones for Opera Mini are BlackBerries.
Reminder: Opera is in the mobile web browser business.
Source: Opera
More sites optimized for your mobile browser. Many, not all, of these sites can be also viewed in a regular (non-mobile) browser.
+ WeatherBug Mobile
Local weather.
More mobile sites to come in upcoming RS posts.
See Also: Compilation #1
We have a massive collection of bookmarks for mobile services that we plan to share (a few at at time) on ResourceShelf over the next few weeks and months. In many cases, you can also take a look a these mobile services on a regular browser. Here’s our first collection. More coming soon.
+ AOL
+ Ask.com
http://m.ask.com
+ Google
http://m.google.com
+ Live.com
http://wap.live.com
+ Yahoo
http://wap.oa.yahoo.com
The new political news and info site offers a mobile site at:
http://mobile.politico.com
Source: The Politico
Here are five more “mobile friendly” sites for your mobile browsers. Btw, these sites can be viewed/previewed on regular web browsers.
Direct to Mobile Web Site (can also be viewed on a regular web browser)
Includes:
+ Countdown Clock
+ Beijing Time and Weather
+ News
+ Images
+ Yahoo OneSearch Box
See Also: Yahoo’s Non-Mobile Olympic Site
When it comes to mobile web browsing, men outnumber women almost nine to one according to a new study released by browser development firm Opera Software. Opera reports that more than 88 percent of mobile web surfers worldwide are male–in addition, the majority of consumers accessing the mobile web via the firm’s Opera Mini browser are between the ages of 18 and 27, with more than 14.7 million total users browsing 2.9 billion pages in May 2008 alone, a 23 percent increase since March. In all, Opera Mini served more than 43.2 million MB of data traffic in May, increasing 30.4 percent in two months’ time.
Source: FierceMobileContent
The Case of the Missing White Pages
There’s no white pages for cellphone numbers, and it doesn’t seem likely that there’ll be one soon. A few years ago, the cellphone industry’s main trade group hired a company to assemble such a directory, but the effort collapsed after some carriers lobbied against it and surveys showed a majority of customers didn’t want it. Subsequent efforts have fared little better: Earlier this year, a company called Intelius shuttered an online directory of 90 million mobile numbers amid anger from cellphone users and threats from Verizon. (Intelius — not Intellius, as I had it earlier — still offers a reverse-lookup service, for a fee.)
In backpedaling, Intelius said that “it’s clear the market is still not ready.” But it may never be.
The principal reason there’s no cellphone directory is simple: We don’t want one.
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Why not? Because in a number of important ways, the cellphone is more of a break with traditional telephone service than it is an evolution of it. And those differences will only become more apparent in the coming years.
Source: Wall Street Journal
There are a myriad of ways to stay connected while travelling abroad. We sort them out here.
See Also: Lingo Navigator (Product Review)
This gadget aims to make multilingual exchanges easier, but is it worth purchasing for your next international trip?
Source: Laptop Magazine
Surfing the Web on a personal computer will become old-fashioned in less than ten years when the majority of Internet users are expected to access the Net through their mobile handsets, Geraldine Wilson, vice president of Yahoo! Europe Connected Life, told EurActiv in an interview.
Source: EurActiv.com
More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found.
Source: Reuters
The Associated Press today debuted its Mobile News Network, a multimedia news portal targeted at wireless users who want access anytime and anywhere to international, national and local news content from the cooperative and its members. The web application has been optimized for use on iPhones and can be accessed directly at apnews.com or via iPhone web application pages at www.iphone.com/webapps.
Source: AP
Postscript: APNews.com also works quickly and efficiently on our 700P Treo.