Facebook is everywhere. Everyone uses Facebook. If you’re not on Facebook, you’re either rebelling or living in a cave. Or both. So, what better platform is there to help mobile application developers pimp their wares than through Facebook’s own mobile offerings? Facebook today announced Facebook Connect for Mobile Web, which allows Facebook users to log…
iPhone accounts for nearly all handheld WiFi hotspot access in US!
Now here’s an interesting little factoid gleaned from a new research report from JiWire. It seems that, when it comes to connecting handheld mobile devices, cafe WiFi hostpots across the US serve darn near all of their wireless bits and bytes to the iPhone OS. The iPhone OS (which runs on the iPhone and iPod…
Google Search results for feature phones now available in Arabic and Hebrew
Google announced that its mobile search service now supports Hebrew and Arabic. With this addition of two left-to-right languages, the Search is now available in total of 40 languages for feature phones. In the same blog post, Google’s Zhen Wang reminds us that the new search results format provides more complete support for the universal…
Google updates Image Search for feature phones
On the heels of the Google Image Search update for iPhone and Android phones, the search giant did the same for the rest of the planet. As a result, you can use the popular Google Image Search on your $50 feature phone and get much better structured results in 38 languages. From Google Mobile Blog:…
Full Flash and Silverlight Planned for BlackBerry?
We had heard point blank from RIM’s Mike Kirkup back in February that Flash would find its way to BlackBerry sooner or later, but didn’t get any elaboration on whether it would be a toned-down Flash Lite, but early rumours suggest that it will be a full-blown version, and come along with Silverlight support. Network…
RIM says BlackBerry Browser Will Match Mobile Safari Next Year
The BlackBerry’s native browser is notoriously sluggish and awkward, but according to TD Securities analyst, Chris Umiastowski, RIM says it will be on par with the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser… eventually. Next summer, so they say. This is, of course, presuming RIM means they’ll keep pace with any improvements Apple makes between now and then…
YouTube Mobile Site Revamped
Google has announced that their mobile YouTube site has been optimized for the iPhone, webOS, Android, and “smartphones with capable browsers”. While the three examples they give already host native YouTube applications preloaded, rendering a mobile site something of a moot point, there are without a doubt many older devices without such a luxury, and…
IntoMobile sits down with Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner
Opera Software has been growing their little segment of the web browser market for well over a decade, and they’ve created a couple of the best mobile web browsers available on the market today – Opera Mini and Opera Mobile. With Opera’s Turbo feature enabled, web-pages are processed in the cloud and compressed, making for…
OTA Download Link Surfaces for SkyFire BlackBerry Browser
Get this one while it’s hot, because I can’t guarantee how long this link will be up! This new 3rd-party browser option has long been rumored to bring steaming video from Hulu and many more cool options to BlackBerry users. All of these options of course are welcomed with open arms… the more competition we…
Bplay Optimizes Website for BlackBerry Storm Users
Bplay has long been one of my favorite BlackBerry gaming, theme and ringtone sites. Their stuff is always top-notch, and they put in the effort to get things right. Today, it looks like they’ve been doing a little mobile tweaking for the Storm users out there. They’ve launched a new version of their website optimized…