dotMobi announced that it has partnered with the leading domain name suggestion and search engine company DomainsBot which will now include .mobi in their domain name search and suggestion tool. DomainsBot’s “name spinner” tool is designed to help developers, site owners and marketers find available domain names when a first-choice domain name is already registered.…
ABI Research: Mobile browser market to grow to 1.5 billion “units” in 2013
In its new study “The Mobile Browser Market,” ABI Research predicts that mobile browsers which can handle advanced client-side coding (JavaScript) will keep growing over the next five years, as the open-Internet browser (OIB) segment for mobile grows from 76 million in 2007 to nearly 700 million browsers delivered in 2013. Still, ABI argues it’s…
Yahoo OneSearch gets voice support, Vlingo money from Yahoo
Yahoo has recently announced that it is launching the the voice-enabled version of its OneSearch product. Initially, the application is available for U.S. based BlackBerry owners, only, but in the coming months – the search giant will expand to international markets and other platforms. Yahoo is using a technology from Vlingo, a company which we…
Wayfinder’s Power Search goes iPhone, iPod Touch
Recently, Wayfinder launched of a web app to bring its “award-winning Power Search technology available to iPhone and iPod Touch users.” Wayfinder’s idea is to provide Apple products’ users with access to “multitude of databases” through one unified search field that covers up to 100 million local search records around the world. A user can…
M:Metrics : iPhone stats
Whilst on the M: Metrics site, I spotted an interesting table relating to iPhone usage – check it out: Look at those stats! The iPhone is showing definitively that it’s leading the evolution of the Mobile device to a increasingly popular platform for consuming digital media. Awesome. [Via: M:Metrics]
UK: vtap gives access to over 150m videos!
Now Dusan has mentioned vtap before (here), but Veveo has PR announcing what I assume must be the official launch of the service for UK users. It is apparently a “new web video experience for mobile users all over the UK and Europe. For the first time video lovers will be able to search through…
Opera Mini 4.1 released in beta
Opera Mini 4.1 is out! Still in beta, the new version “improves the way Opera Mini interacts with your phone to make browsing more convenient, more productive and definitely more fun.” Highlights/new features: It’s up to 50% faster than Opera Mini 4 URL autocomplete – Opera Mini will automatically suggest URL completions Save pages for…
Verizon brings MTV to its Mobile Web 2.0 service
Verizon has recently announced that it is launching mobile web sites for various MTV Network properties on its Mobile Web 2.0 service. Under the agreement, customers are now able to access mobile optimized versions of MTV, VH1, COMEDY CENTRAL, Nickelodeon and CMT websites via their Mobile Web 2.0 enabled handsets. Things like celebrity photos, MTV…
Google LCB – new Google service for mobile searching sans typing
Tapping away at a mobile phone’s keypad can get to be a real bother – and in some cases, a real medical condition. So, it seems that Google has set out to improve the mobile-search experience on handsets. Dubbed “LCB,” Google has tipped their newest mobile service in their robots.txt file – a file that…
Imooty.eu goes mobile; Brings European affairs to the palm of your hand
European news site Imooty.eu recently launched a beta version of its mobile platform, www.imooty.mobi, to provide its users with news fix while on-the-go. The platform provides direct access to the latest breaking media coverage from the most important newspapers and media organizations based in the European Union, Switzerland and Norway. By creating an account at…