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The mobile phone world seems to revolve around the North America, Korean, and UK mobile phone market, but there’s more to the mobile scene than what we usually talk about. Quirksmode.org put together a chart of how other countries are using their phones to browse the web. The countries covered include Brazil, China, Egypt, India,…
Google is always working overtime to bring their Android users services and features that make their lives easier, and they continue to do so with some fresh updates to Google Navigation and mobile search. The update introduced to us today includes a new feature that catapults Navigation to the level of SD-based navigation systems. There…
MediaTek and Yahoo! announced a global partnership that will embed Yahoo!’s services into MediaTek’s mobile platform solutions. As the world’s largest mobile chipset maker, MediaTek could dramatically increase Yahoo!’s presence in the mobile world. Last year, it [MediaTek] shipped over 500 million units for assembly into a wide range of mobile phones distributed worldwide. Among…
Google has just upgraded their browser-based news service so Android and iPhone devices can serve up items based on where you are. All you have to do is authorize Google News to use your location when you visit the site on your phone, and it will automatically pull up local news in a new section…
Foot Locker is going for the mobile users and has launched (and/or re-launched) mobile websites for its brands, including Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Footaction, Champs Sports and CCS. The mobile sites for Foot Locker, Champs Sports and CCS have been upgraded to better integrate with the company’s online and in-store offerings.…
Bitstream has selected location-based mobile search expert xAD as its local search partner for the BOLT mobile browser. As a result, locally relevant searches from within BOLT will now be provided with xAD results, specific to the user’s location search terms. As a user, you won’t have to do a thing to start getting the…
Opera Software announced that Opera Mini reached 100 million monthly users in March and two billion daily page views, which are new peaks for the “world’s most used mobile browser.” Two months ago, the company shared the same figure (100 million users) but that was for two of Opera browsers – Opera Mini and Opera…
Some recent data from StatCounter has revealed that Android web traffic has edged out that of BlackBerry. Of the 15 billion page hits and 3 million sites StatCounter monitors, 14.52% came from BlackBerry handsets, while 15.16% came from Android phones. I’m surprised it’s that close of a race given how mediocre the BlackBerry browser is,…
Opera, Stefan’s favouritest mobile browser in the whole wide world, has launched a broad app store for BlackBerry, Android, Symbian, and Java apps. Helping Opera out with this store is Appia, previously known as PocketGear as of a month ago. The Opera Mini and Mobile browsers will offer a shortcut to the store for easy…
The Google search mobile page has a new Instant Previews feature that lets you browse through query results as a set of thumbnail images instead of boring ol’ text. This way, you’re basing what you click on what the page looks like, wich is often a good indicator of its quality and relevance. You might…