Archive for the ‘Found on the Mobile Web’ Category

Found on the Mobile Web #11

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

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 [...]

Found on the Mobile Web #10

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

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 [...]

Found on the Mobile Web #9

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

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 [...]