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Google Optimizes Mobile Reader for Nokia's S60 Web Browser

Google has been offering mobile platform optimized versions of its various services for a while, including Google Reader, a web-based RSS reader. Several weeks ago, it was discovered that the iPhone-optimized version would work well on the S60 Webkit web browser found on Nokia S60 based smartphones like the Nokia N95 and Nokia N82.

Mobile Content Bits: Opera Mobile 9.5; Verizon Mobile Banking; Google Mobile Reviews; Mobile Posse

Opera launches Mobile 9.5: Opera Software (OSL: OPERA) released today Opera Mobile 9.5 in beta, a new browser for Windows Mobile touchscreen devices. The browser can be downloaded at http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/. Opera Mobile 9.5 beta is supposed to be faster and is also nice because it defaults to the page overview mode, allowing the user to view the entire Web page to be able to recognize the Web site. The user can pan and zoom to focus on specific areas of the page.

Web Browser Wars Go Mobile

alphadogg writes "A new generation of mobile Web browsers is finally making the Web a reality on handheld devices. The latest example is last week's beta launch of Opera Mobile 9.5, a native Web browser for high-end smartphones. It's an evolutionary release for the Norwegian software company, but it comes just days after Apple's iPhone 3G, with its highly capable Safari browser, went on sale. Other brand-new entrants, such as Mobile Firefox and Skyfire, are expected later this year, at least in beta form. But the evolving mobile browsers are only one part of the picture. Mobile browsing is affected by the client hardware, ranging from the processor to the kind of wireless network being used, all of which have improved markedly. It's also affected by the design of Web sites being targeted, and there's new attention being focused on optimiz

Brands engage mobile bloggers to surf surge in mobile web usage.

Brands engage mobile bloggers to surf surge in mobile web usage. - UK re-launches as 'Moblog' on new mobile blogging platform. London –Moblog, the UK based mobile blogging community and technology provider today announced a major upgrade to their platform, simplifying sign-up and enhancing mobile web features for its users, as well as re-branding the service from moblog: UK to Moblog. “We have focused on making blogging from a mobile device simpler than ever through new features, and through our partners such as Spinvox and Shozu. The release of our community site adapted for the mobile web means blogging and participating on the move has never been easier or more feature rich.” said Alfie Dennen, co-founder of the company.

Google Maps for S60 & Windows Mobile handsets now offer Transit directions

Google has just announced the release of Google Maps for mobile with Transit directions for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile powered handsets on the Official Google Mobile Blog. Google Maps for mobile is actually on version 2.2 now and features the addition of commuter-friendly transit directions.

Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'?

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the transforming nature of the Web now that Tim Berners-Lee's early vision has been supplanted by today's much more complex model. AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, Flash and Silverlight all have McAllister asking, 'Is [the Web] still the Web if you can't navigate directly to specific content? Is it still the Web if the content can't be indexed and searched? Is it still the Web if you can only view the application on certain clients or devices? Is it still the Web if you can't view source?' Such questions bely a much bigger question for Web developers, McAllister writes. If today's RIAs no longer resemble the 'Web,' then should we be shoehorning these apps into the Web's infrastructure, or is the problem that the client platforms simply aren't evolving fast enough to meet

Commercial Mobile Browser Market to Continue Strong Growth, Despite Increased Interest in Open-Source Mobile Browsers, Says ABI Research

As consumers increasingly surf the Web on their mobile phones, handset vendors are looking toward open-source browsers such as WebKit – the browser engine at the heart of the iPhone’s Safari browser – as a way to bring it to them. However, despite growing interest in WebKit and Gecko (the engine for the Mozilla Corporation Firefox browser), commercial browser vendors such as Opera and ACCESS continue to see growth in their businesses. According to ABI Research, overall growth in the mobile browser category will lead to a total pre-installed revenue of $492 million by 2013, driven by the trends of more complex HTML-based browser integration.

Myxer Announces Turnkey Mobile Content Syndication Solution - 'Myxer Select'

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Myxer, the leader in ad-supported mobile content, today announced the new Myxer Select program for mobile handset manufacturers, wireless network operators, and web destinations. The program provides them with the ability to create a customized mobile content store, selecting content from the world's largest assembled collection of mobile content, with over one million items. Myxer Select partners can be up and running with their own mobile content download site (on the web and/or mobile web) in a matter of days. Myxer Select is delivered over the award-winning Myxer Mobile Platform, a robust, scalable and proven mobile content delivery platform that currently delivers over 22 million downloads per month, at a rate of over 8 mobile downloads per second.

Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion

mytrip points out news that Google's index of unique URLs has reached a milestone: one trillion. Google's blog provides some more information, noting, "The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-l

Mobispine Mobile News Aggregator Buying RSS Reader NewsAlloy

Mobile newsreader service Mobispine is acquiring NewsAlloy, an Ajax, web-based RSS reader, intending to merge the two in to a “seamless” product offering personalized newsfeeds across desktop and mobile. The acquisition price is not disclosed. The NewsAlloy website claims 11,331 registered users, and Stockholm-based Mobispine says it has over 300,000 active mobile users per month. Somewhat ambitiously, they are targeting 10 million users for the combined operation. The online RSS reader game is frankly a tough challenge, in the face of mature offerings from bigger players like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Reader, Bloglines and easier alternatives like My Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). But Mobispine says its NewsAlloy combination can offer “a welcome change” that can be used by “everyone from tweens to seniors”.

Google's Big Mistake - Getting Rid of Google Page Creator

Are you kidding me? Google getting rid of Google Page Creator, this must be a joke. No, it's for real. Google says they're going to be transitioning all Google Page Creator websites into their new Google Sites. Excuse me, but Google Sites doesn't come close to being as good as Google Page Creator. Why in the world would Google choose to keep the lesser of the two?

Nokia Recognizes First 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series Developers

today extended recognition to the initial group of exceptional mobile application developers in its 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program, designed to provide select small- and mid-sized developers with key business and market support and facilitate access for cutting-edge applications and services to the largest mobile device market in the world today. The first eight developers recognized in the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series cleared multiple selection hurdles over the course of the past year as part of the selection process, which included internal Nokia reviews and the screening of application features and functionality by consumer focus groups around the world. Each participant in the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series was required to demonstrate that their application or service provided specific benefits to Nokia mobile de

Mobile Web Developer Challenge - Yankee Group and Netbiscuits Aim to Boost Mobile Internet Diversity

RESTON, Va., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with Yankee Group's upcoming Mobile Internet World conference, Netbiscuits, lead sponsor of the MIW Developers Summit, is inviting everyone to share their vision of the Mobile Internet and compete in the first Mobile Web Developer Challenge. Participants will submit their own Mobile Websites, portals, communities, games, download centers, video channels, shops, campaigns, or landing pages created with a free trial of the Netbiscuits platform. Submissions entered by 11:59 pm PT on October 15th will be judged by a panel of industry experts on design, fluidity, content and execution to win free access to professional development tools used by eBay, Yahoo!, and Nokia.

Google Makes Mobile Search Faster, Sort Of

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is making a pretty big deal out of this. It wrote on its blog this morning that they “are obsessed with making your mobile search experience as fast as possible,” so, they updated their mobile homepage to load much faster. They did this by allowing google.com to cache in the browser, so that when you return a second time, it loads almost instantly. I tried it out on my Blackberry Curve, and sure enough, the second time I loaded the search page, it was much faster. And although, this is nice, it’s not the page loading that drives me nuts. It’s the actual search process that takes a long time, and that’s not getting any faster. Besides, I hardly ever go to Google.com in my browser since I have a standalone widget for it on my phone.

Mobile RSS Innovator Mobispine Acquires NewsAlloy, the First Rich Featured Web Based Feed Reader: Duo Will Disrupt RSS Reader Market With Combined Technologies

Mobile RSS Innovator Mobispine Acquires NewsAlloy, the First Rich Featured Web Based Feed Reader: Duo Will Disrupt RSS Reader Market With Combined Technologies

Mobile RSS Innovator Mobispine Acquires NewsAlloy, the First Rich Featured Web Based Feed Reader: Duo Will Disrupt RSS Reader Market with Combined Technologies

Mobile RSS Innovator Mobispine Acquires NewsAlloy, the First Rich Featured Web Based Feed Reader: Duo Will Disrupt RSS Reader Market with Combined Technologies

Google Mobile App for iPhone

Searching is Google's bread-and-butter, and the Google Mobile App for the iPhone (and the iPod touch) searches the Web and your mobile device with ease. If only Google's other web applications worked as transparently, or as well.

Google Now Allows You To Pick Your Friends in Reader

Last year, Google caused a bit of a furor when it expanded the sharing capabilities of Google Reader, the company’s service for viewing blogs. The main complaint was that Google assumed that anyone you had exchanged messages with using Google Talk was your friend. If those people were Google Reader users, they would be able to see any item you marked as “shared.”

Google Moves Maps to Tele Atlas as Nokia Buys Navteq

Tele Atlas will provide Google with map services, including Google Maps, Google Earth, and Android applications. The five-year deal with Tele Atlas means Google will no longer have to rely on Navteq, which is being acquired by rival Nokia. Mapping is expected to be a big part of applications on the Google-backed Android mobile platform.

Google Moves Maps to Tele Atlas as Nokia Buys Navteq

Tele Atlas will provide Google with map services, including Google Maps, Google Earth, and Android applications. The five-year deal with Tele Atlas means Google will no longer have to rely on Navteq, which is being acquired by rival Nokia. Mapping is expected to be a big part of applications on the Google-backed Android mobile platform.

Moblog: Brands engage mobile bloggers to surf surge in mobile web usage. Moblog:UK re-launches as 'Moblog' on new mobile blogging platform

Moblog: Brands engage mobile bloggers to surf surge in mobile web usage. Moblog:UK re-launches as 'Moblog' on new mobile blogging platform

T-Mobile To Get Google Android Phone First - HTC Dream with Android to be officially announced in September

Though a number of blogs earlier this week stated the exact same thing, the New York Times today confirms that T-Mobile will be the first wireless carrier to sell a Google OS-based phone starting this fall. Videos of the new HTC "Dream" with Google's Android OS have been circulating for the last week, and the Times claims that T-Mobile, Google and HTC all hope to officially announce the phone next month. It's still a bit strange that Google's wireless broadband centric OS is debuting on the least developed of all third generation carrier networks (T-Mobile's HSDPA network has only so far been deployed in NYC and Las Vegas).

ACCESS Announces NetFront Browser Widgets on ACCESS Linux Platform, Support for Mobile...

ACCESS Announces NetFront Browser Widgets on ACCESS Linux Platform, Support for Mobile Internet Devices - LinuxWorld Demos to Showcase End-to-End Convergence Solutions SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- LINUXWORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO -- ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today announced it is extending the functionality of ACCESS Linux Platform with the addition of NetFront(TM) Browser Widgets for mobile handsets and consumer electronics, and support for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). With these new capabilities, businesses can quickly implement a wide range of widget services and deploy products in a new category of Internet-savvy mobile devices, based on ACCESS Linux Platform.

Google Brings Transit Directions to Windows Mobile, Symbian/S60

Google's just added a new transit directions feature to Google Maps for mobile for the Windows Mobile (2005 or later) and Symbian/S60 (3rd edition or later) smartphone platforms. Made available for BlackBerry and Java-based handsets a few weeks ago, this feature allows you to request a route using only public transportation in over 50 cities. It is supposed to give you a number of different options to help you get where you want to go without driving yourself.

Google Brings Transit Directions to Windows Mobile, Symbian/S60

Google's just added a new transit directions feature to Google Maps for mobile for the Windows Mobile (2005 or later) and Symbian/S60 (3rd edition or later) smartphone platforms. Made available for BlackBerry and Java-based handsets a few weeks ago, this feature allows you to request a route using only public transportation in over 50 cities. It is supposed to give you a number of different options to help you get where you want to go without driving yourself.

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