The team over at Skyfire have today released version 1.0 of their browser, bringing it out of beta. Skyfire is a “full” browser, like the well-known Opera Mini, but it’s even “fuller” — it can handle Flash 10, Silverlight, AJAX and Quicktime, meaning you can watch videos on YouTube and Hulu, and get the full [...]
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Open Mobile Summit: Unleash the Internet!
One of the big mobile events of the Summer is shaping up to be “Open Mobile Summit: Unleash the Internet!”, which features practically a Who’s Who? from mobile. Luminaries include Mike Short, O2; Christopher Schläffer, Group Product & Innovation Officer, Deutsche Telekom; Kenneth Karlberg, President Business Area Mobility Services, TeliaSonera; Alan Brenner, SVP, RIM; Pieter [...]
McDonalds Goes Interactive via Mobile
McDonalds has long had a digital billboard at London’s Piccadilly Circus, which claims traffic of 1.1 million visitors per week. But they’ve now redesigned it to make it interactive, with a mobile twist. The obvious idea here would be to allow people to upload their own photos to the billboard, but there’s always a risk [...]
1.5 Million Free Books for iPhones
Google announced yesterday that they had extended their Book Search project to mobile, which means that they’ve turned iPhones and Android handsets into book readers. Which is a pretty cool concept, I’d say. The portfolio consists of 1.5 million free books that are in the public domain (ie out of copyright), which normally means pretty [...]
Check Out Nimbuzz — A VoIP and Chat Aggregator That Doesn’t Suck
I’ve been spending a while playing with Nimbuzz, a service that aggregates IM and VoIP for your mobile (currently S60 and Java). I’m really impressed, particularly as there have been so many other aggregators with similar goals that have failed miserably. It pretty much does what you’d expect and hope: you enter in your details [...]
DirecTV Launches Remote DVR Scheduling — With A Mobile Version
US satellite TV provider DirecTV has launched a new feature that allows its DVR subscribers to remotely schedule recordings. Users can do it via the DirecTV.com web site, but the company is also prominently advertising the mobile version of the service, available at m.directv.com. Similar services have been available in other countries for some time [...]
Text Answer Services Take Off In The US
A couple of text answer services — with the same idea as AQA or Texperts in the UK: you text in a question, and they write back (hopefully) with an answer — have launched in the US, called Johnny27 (via SMS Text News), and ChaCha (via AP). They do basically the same thing, with one [...]
My Thoughts On Today’s Steve Jobs Keynote.
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SMS Inspired Keyboard Layout
We all know that today’s QWERTY keyboard layout was designed in the days of the old typewriter and that the intention was to actually slow down typing to prevent the mechanical keys from getting stuck together. So it’s pretty amazing that we still have the same layout, purposely designed to make things more difficult. It’s [...]
Opera Mini 4 Is Out
A new version of one of my favorite mobile apps of all time, Opera Mini, has been released. Hit operamini.com from your phone or PC browser to get it. The Opera crew says they’ve made a ton of improvements to Mini, including an Overview mode, support for landscape viewing and a new mouse cursor. One [...]
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