Photos of the World GyPSii (GyPSiiMobile) 5 Essential Mobile Web Apps This week we ran a contest asking you to tell us your favorite Mobile Web apps. We got over 50 comments and there were 5 Mobile Web apps that clearly stood out, with multiple mentions. Here then is the top 5, which will be useful to people new to the Mobile Web and wondering what all the fuss is about! We've also listed all the other Mobile Web apps mentioned in our contest post, at the bottom of this page. 1. Commenter "mr white" said of the Gmail java app: "This *is* clearly the path of the future. Nathan commented: "A very nice frontend onto a very nice service, and it does a rather nice job of reformatting files for the tiny screen. 2. Phil commented: "...my favourite app has to be Google Maps for mobile (on my Sony Ericsson k800i). Simon uses Google Maps on his N95, noting that "it's fast, plays nicely with GPS and I hope it really pushes Nokia's own mapping." g0at commented: "My favorite web app is Google Maps. Mr Gunn also uses Google Maps on a Nokia. 3. 4. 5. Honorable Mentions
The Internet map Nokia Launches Free Turn-By-Turn Navigation Around The World For the past few days, Nokia has been trying to get everyone excited about.. something. They piqued our interests by sending out press event invites (for separate events in the UK and the US, no less), then revved the hype machine with a good ol’ fashion countdown timer. The US announcement is still a few hours away, but they just pulled back the curtain over in the UK — and while we can’t say for certain, I’m pretty sure the talk of the event will be the same on this side of the pond. The big secret? Free turn-by-turn navigation is now available for roughly 20 million Nokia handsets around the world. To dive a bit deeper into that “20 million.. handsets” number, we’re talking about users speaking 46 different languages across 74 different countries. Some of the features of the new, free Ovi Maps with Navigation: So why did Nokia suddenly decide to make turn-by-turn navigation free to anyone rocking a compatible handset?
Why The Mobile Web Had Such A Terrible Start I've been thinking a bit about the recent history of mobile Internet access lately because I was wondering why it had such a teribble start. In the mobile world, the web had a much more difficult start compared to the fixed line world for a number of reasons. First attempts by mobile phone manufacturers to mobilize the web were a big disappointment for quite a number of reasons. In the fixed line world the web got an incubation time of at least a decade to grow, to be refined and to be fostered by researchers and students at universities before being used by the public who already had sufficiently capable notebooks, PCs and a reasonably priced connection to the Internet. Mobile Internet access was intended straight for the public instead of first attracting researchers and students to use and refine the services. Each of the points mentioned above would have been enough on its own to stop the mobile web in its tracks. As always, comments are welcome!
Watercress Is The Healthiest Vegetable? Carrot Is #26? Here's A Chart To Memorize. - Daily Health Post The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta doesn’t just have the morbid job of monitoring and managing negative health concerns–it is also responsible for helping us live better. It has recently released a study in its journal Preventing Chronic Disease to define “powerhouse” fruits and vegetables–those delivering the biggest nutritional bang for the buck.[1] What is a “Powerhouse”? The first thing the researchers had to do was define “powerhouse” and devise a scale, a point of reference on which to base the forty-seven foods tested. Based on these criteria, a vegetable not particularly popular in North America was jettisoned to the top of the list: watercress. Watercress Received a Score of 100 (on a scale of 0 to 100). Watercress is not unknown in other parts of the world; there is even an annual Watercress Festival in the United Kingdom to celebrate this terrific vegetable. The lead researcher, Jennifer Di Noia, PhD of William Paterson University, advises:
Gokivo Navigator Onto New Windows Mobi Unlike most other smartphone platforms, Windows Mobile doesn’t come with a mapping application pre-installed by default. While this may very well change with the soon-to-be-announced Windows Mobile 7, it has thus far been up to the handset manufacturer to throw in a map app if they so choose. Later this week, messaging/location technology providers TCS will announce that Sony Ericsson has chosen their turn-by-turn application, Gokivo, to be pre-loaded onto future Sony Ericsson-made Windows Mobile devices. The first Sony Ericsson handset to come with Gokivo out of the box will be the Aspen, which was just announced last week. This is pretty big news for TCS; they just acquired the company behind Gokivo, Networks In Motion, back in December, and this is the first time any manufacturer has chosen to pre-install the app at the factory. The flagship features, according to TCS: Local SearchTraffic and WeatherLocation Sharing
Symbian dismisses Google Android /BBC By Darren Waters Technology editor, BBC News website Symbian powers more than 165 million phones John Forsyth, vice president of strategy at Symbian, the platform that powers many of the world's phones, said Google lacked experience. Google has formed an alliance with 33 firms to develop an open platform for mobile phones, called Android. Meanwhile, the head of Nokia in the UK said the firm was in discussions with Google about using the platform. Simon Ainslie, Nokia UK's managing director, said: "We are always open to discussion and debate on that. "We are having ongoing discussions with Google." Mr Ainslie said the time was not right to make any announcement as to "how we can work with them". He also said that Nokia was very happy with its partnership with Symbian. He said: "It's the world's most used platform. John Forsyth, Symbian, on the Open Handset Alliance Mr Forsyth said Google had to be aware that making a "mobile OS is a very specialised form of rocket science.
Google Ultimate Interface About Google In 1996-1997, Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with an algorithm to rank web pages, called PageRank. Realizing the potential to improve search engines, they tried and failed to sell the technology to any. So they founded Google, which in an incredibly short period of time has become one of the world’s most powerful companies. While primarily known as a search engine, Google now makes a wide variety of web-based and other software and is known for investing in wide-ranging projects outside their core such as through their philanthropic arm, Google.org. Google’s enourmously successful advertising business accounts for almost all of their revenue and allows Google to subsidize many other ideas. Google is a market and quality leader in web search, online maps, online video (through YouTube), and areas. Alternatives to Google Why not use nothing but Google all the time? Try out the Bing search engine, for instance, for web, image, and other searches.
With New Ovi Maps, Nokia Seeks Location Heaven Nokia's Ovi Maps In an attempt to ward off competition from the likes of Google, Nokia, the largest maker of mobile phones, has released the latest version of its Ovi Maps software and made the app available for free. Nokia, despite an early start in the mobile phone-focused maps and navigation space, has lost attention to Google and Apple’s mapping and navigation efforts. With the new Ovi Maps app, the company is hitting back, especially at Google. “Maps and navigation are as core and natural in a phone as digital cameras,” Tero Ojanperä, Nokia’s EVP of services, said to me about Nokia’s new release. I would agree — and I think it’s further bad news for the standalone GPS companies such as Tom Tom and Garmin. In an interview last year, Ojanperä said, “We want maps to be part of everyday life, and as a result, we are working on building a richer experience on top of the map…I think it is going to become obvious that companies with mapping assets are at an advantage.”
Mobile Web Sites from Academic Libraries and Universities Tuesday, 6th November 2007 Mobile Web Sites from Academic Libraries and Universities: A New ResourceShelf Collection #1 This new collection will list, on a regular basis, and we learn about them, web sites optimized for mobile users from universities, colleges and academic libraries. Here's the first round of links. In most cases, you can get an idea of what the sites loo like using a non-mobile browser. Universities + Coppin State University + University of Florida + The Ohio State University + Penn State University ||| or iPhone Version + Stephens College + University of Texas at Austin + University of Virginia + Virginia Tech Libraries + American University Libraries + Ball State University Library ||| More Info + Boston University Medical Center Mobile Library + Cal Poly Pomona University Library + Hanover College, Duggan Library + Harvard College Library + University of Illinois Library (Grainger) + New York University (Bobst) Libraries + University of Richmond Library + St. Category: Views: 1748