Today T-Mobile USA announced the availability of the Motorola MOTORIZR Z3 on its network. The Z3, first shown in Cape Town, South Africa last July, is Motorola’s first modern slider handset. It sports a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth stereo support, and a microSD card slot that supports cards as large as 2GB
The mobile web version of Yahoo’s oneSearch (us.m.yahoo.com/p/search) has launched. In addition to that address which takes you to a dedicated oneSearch page, there is a oneSearch box at the top of Yahoo’s US mobile home page at us.m.yahoo.com
Yahoo makes some pretty impressive claims regarding oneSearch. According to Yahoo;
“Finally, mobile search that really works! Introducing Yahoo! oneSearch, an amazingly better search experience that redefines search for the phone. It’s designed to give you instant answers – exactly what you need when you’re on the go. Yahoo! oneSearch understands the type of search you’re doing and optimizes the results accordingly—so you get the answers you need instantly with just one click, right there on the page. oneSearch includes more actual content in your initial results than any other search—all grouped by subject matter and relevance, so there’s no sea of links to wade through like with a PC search. It’s [...]
Judy Breck has posted this week’s Carnival on her very interesting site, Golden Swamp, whose theme is mobile learning. Be sure to poke around the site and read some of Judy’s pieces to learn how our society is wasting the tremendous education potential of the web including the mobile web. This is a great Carnival too. There are thought provoking pieces about Mobile Net Neutrality, Nokia’s new advertising platform, brightly colored Japanese handsets, the way mobile phones foster economic development in India and education in the US, web standards, the Nokia N800, WiMAX, the iPhone and a whole lot more. Visit the Carnival, it’s educational and amusing.
Found on the Mobile Web is a regular feature of Wap Review listing new and updated mobile sites. All sites listed are included in the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory.
Entertainment/Mobile Video
Zannel: (wap.zannel.com) A new mobile media (videos and images) sharing site. Anyone can browse, download and view. Register at www.zannel.com to be able to upload which can be done by MMS or on the PC site.
Business/News
MEDIAWEEK: (mobile.mediaweek.com) A trade journal covering the TV, radio and magazine industries.
Visible.mobi: (visible.mobi) Financial news and market quotes from India. Keep up with the latest on one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Quotes are from the Indian exchanges BSE and NSE.
News
Fox News: (foxnews.mobi) The conservative US TV news network has launched a mobile site.
News/International
CM Click: (iji.mobi) News from the West African Republic of Cameroon. Interesting reading, too bad the page [...]
A meme (rhymes with theme) according to Wikipedia, is a “unit of cultural information” such as “…tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.” As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean “hot topic” or “the next big thing”. A lot of people have a need to know the day’s newest and hottest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to track just that. The first was probably Gabe Rivera’s news and politics site memeorandum.com which uses an algorithm to pick the top stories from a combination of traditional news sites and blogs. Memeorandum developed quite a following and eventually spun off sister sites Techmeme, WeSmirch (gossip) and BallBug (baseball) and a small army of competitors.
The meme tracker is spreading to the mobile web. Here’s a roundup of current mobile [...]
The Formula One auto racing season kicks off next Sunday with the Melbourne Grand Prix. Here’s a look at some sites that let you follow the F1 circus on your mobile phone.
F1-Live.com: I’ve just found an i-mode version of the elusive F1-Live mobile site. F1-Live has some of the best F1 coverage on the mobile web with daily news and very detailed live reports. There are lots of photos and it’s all presented in a mobile friendly and reasonably low-bandwidth format. The trouble is that F1-Live is only available as an exclusive feature within certain mobile carrier’s walled gardens. So if you are a Vodaphone UK customer, F1-Live is on your carrier deck, the rest of us are out of luck. Once in a while F1-Live appears on a public url and now is one of those times. At least temporarily, there’s an i-mode version of F1-Live at [...]
The latest edition of the mobile sideshow called the Carnival of the Mobilists is up at m-trends.org, hosted by Rudy De Waele. This week the Carnival is honoring Jean Baudrillard, the great media theorist who died recently. I think Baudrillard, whose work explored the nature of reality, would have enjoyed the posts on the artificial reality of web communities from both Michael Mace and Graham Brown. Also notable are some new mobile data statistics from Farooq Anjum. There are loads of design and development related items too, if that’s your bent. Really, whatever your area of interest in the mobile sphere, you will find something amusing in this week’s Carnival.
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly feature on Wap Review listing new and updated mobile sites. All sites listed are included in the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory.
Entertainment/Music-Nightlife
Tuned.mobi: (tuned.mobi) Mobile friendly directory to streaming internet radio stations. Searchable by callsign this site is very comprehensive with hundreds of links to stations in the US, Canada, UK and Australia. These streams are in wma, mp3, real and ogg formats and are playable on Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux, Symbian and most 3G feature phones with a compatible player. Warning, you don’t want to try this unless you have an unlimited data plan!
Entertainment/Theater
B’way.mobi: (bway.mobi) Mobile guide to Broadway plays, plot synopses, cast list and curtain times for current on-Broadway shows.
News/US Local by State/NY-OH
Coshocton Tribune: (http://m.coshoctontribune.com/) Gannett, which owns around a hundred mostly small town newspapers in the US continues it’s march to mobilize [...]
Mobile browsers designed to display any web page, often called “Full-Web” mobile browsers, are starting to drive a significant amount of traffic to both mobile and non-mobile sites. Smartphones usually have a full-web browser like Opera Mobile, Netfront, Palm Blazer, Mobile Internet Explorer or the Nokia Mini Map Browser. Smartphones sales have broken into double digits and it’s reasonable to expect Smartphone users to use the Web much more than those with more humble devices. Opera Mini makes a big contribution to the full-web browser contingent with 12 million users worldwide. The popular Danger Hiptop/Sidekick is another mass-market device with a full-web browser.
A few years ago, it was conventional wisdom that mobile users don’t browse, they have a few sites that they use for specific tasks like checking the weather, sports scores or flight arrivals but don’t click on links just to see where they lead like so [...]
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly Wap Review feature showcasing sites recently added to the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory.
Entertainment/Mobile Video
Nokia Video Links: videolinks.nokia.com Recent Nokia phones come with this bookmark pre-configured. It’s a pretty comprehensive list of mobile video sites both Nokia sites and third party ones.
YouTube Mobile: (m.youtube.com/?client=ytdemo) First spotted by Symbian-Freak, as a link on the Nokia Video Links page, this looks like the soft launch of YouTube’s mobile effort. Although many bloggers are suggesting that this is a Nokia/YouTube joint effort and that it only works with Nokia N-Series handsets, I’m able to view and stream videos from this site using my desktop PC browser without even altering the UserAgent. I think the actual streams should work on non-Nokia phones as long as they support the right codecs. The codees are H263 video and amr audio [...]