When it comes to using the mobile web, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone that denies the iPhone’s multi-touch web browsing experience as anything less than top-notch. The mobile world scurried to bring their own touchscreen competitors to market when the iPhone blew up the scene with its inaugural launch in 2007, but no other…
ABI Research: Mobile Internet search engine use jumped 14% between 2007 and 2008
According to surveys conducted by ABI Research in 2007 and 2008, 70% of respondents used their mobile phones to access information through Internet search engines last year, representing a substantial 14% increase over 2007. Some types of content accessed via mobile phones rose in popularity from 2007 to 2008 — including news, game downloads, music…
Opera’s State of the Mobile Web for January is out!
Opera Software released the January edition of its “State of the Mobile Web” report, highlighting Middle East mobile web usage. Some of the more interesting data from the report include: In January 2009, Opera Mini usage jumped 12.1% over the previous month to 20 million unique users. Monthly page views increased even more, jumping 18%…
Opera Mobile Now Supporting Google Gears
Opera has been hard at work to include Google Gears in its mobile browser, and it’s now available for Windows Mobile. Google Gears unlocks a lot of potential for web developers, primarily by way of making content accessible offline – a situation that mobile web browsers are likely to bump into. There are a few…
GeoSpot Launches Location and Time-Based Search
GeoSpot is taking a simple, useful twist on your old-fashioned location-based service: in addition to your usual local search, these guys are taking into account business hours, so your results can show only what’s open during a designated time. It’s a very clever addition, and considering some of the Palm Pre’s similar GPS/calendar features, we’ll…
Buzzwire Mobile Web Portal Launches
Mobile web browsing can be a chore – not everything is built for the phone, even if you’re packing an iPhone or a nice third-party browser. Luckily, Buzzwire aims to bring you the best of the mobile web by implementing a free Digg-style site at m.buzzwire.com. “The mobile Web is different from the PC Web…
Fennec Coming to Android? Don’t Hold Your Breath
If you’ve been waiting for Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) to hit Android, you might be up for a little bit of a wait. The development team over at Mozilla want to build in as many of the familiar features that we’ve come to love into the mobile browser as well. From a higher-up at Mozilla:…
Opera Software joins the LiMo Foundation
Opera Software announced that its has joined the LiMo Foundation. Their idea is simple – Opera wants to have its mobile browser(s) running on every possible platform. That being said, we’ve already seen them releasing Opera Mini for Android, and their browser is also available on a range of feature phones. Guess, this means that…
Opera Software strikes partnership agreements with Yahoo!, Vodafone
Opera Software just got stronger for two partnership. First they announced a deal with Yahoo! to bring Opera Mini to more mobile phone users around the world. Under the agreement, Yahoo! will distribute Opera’s Java ME browser via Yahoo! Mobile and also as a standalone download from Yahoo!’s mobile web sites. In the other news,…
Bolt Mobile Browser Now Available For All as Public Beta
The latest out of Mobile World Congress is that the new Bolt Browser from Bitstream (say that 10 times fast) is now moving to a public beta… Right now! The new version has gone to .86. Bitstream started out the private beta of Bolt with a few friends and family, and then grew it with…