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lab209 goes mobile
lab209 has gone mobile with this post!
Thanks to a WordPress plugin, lab209 can now detect mobile devices and serves a simplified theme for the device.
Go ahead and enjoy the browsing experience on handheld devices.
Fennec releases Alpha 2
Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox for Nokia Internet Tablets has been released by Mozilla.
The new features in this version includes:
Faster panning
Faster zooming
Improved responsiveness while pages are loading
New content manipulation hooks for extension authors
Look and feel improvements to improve usability
You can see a screenshot here.
Visit their website to download a version you can play with; [...]
mGinger: Making money using your mobile phone
I’m sure many of you from India are already using mGinger?
mGinger is the first of its kind opt-in permission-based mobile marketing platform in India. You get paid to receive SMS based advertisements on your mobile phone. You can opt-in to receive at most 10 such messages daily on topics of your choice.
Your earnings really start [...]
The Top Apple App Store Downloads for 2008
Apple has released the list of top App Store Downloads for 2008 in iTunes.
The reactions to the list are varied on various blogs: Gizmodo, LifeHacker, and MobileCrunch.
Follow the discussion on Techmeme.
Nokia N97 unveiled
Nokia has a new phone – The N97. [via engadget]
An image of the phone is shown below. For more details visit the engadget website (link above)
UPDATE: A video from Scoble on N97.
10,000+ iPhone Apps on the App Store
148Apps is a website dedicated to tracking iPhone applications.
There are 10,000 applications now being tracked on this website. This is a significant milestone reached by the iPhone App Store.
148Apps has a page dedicated to these 10,000 applications with mini-icons representing each of the applications. Besides that, you also get some interesting stats.
The average cost of [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a coming next month!
BoyGeniusReport reports that Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a will be available in US Stores (Best Buy) sometime next month.
The price is quite steep though — $799.
Now when is this phone launching in India? Does anyone have any news on that?
Ovi: Nokia’s Internet Services Umbrella Brand
Ovi is Nokia’s Internet services brand name. ‘Ovi’ means ‘Door’ in Finnish. Ovi enables consumers to easily access their existing social networks and access Nokia’s services.
Games can be access via N-Gage and music from Nokia Music. Other features include sharing of files, images, contacts, etc. Nokia Maps will also be a part of this service [...]
Offline support available in Gmail for Mobile 2.0
Google releases Gmail for Mobile Phones 2.0 with support for J2ME enabled phones and BlackBerry.
The new version has improved upon its client-side caching scheme to improve on the overall performance. It also introduces basic offline support that enables you to compose emails even if you are not connected to the network.
Other notable features include support [...]
Twitroid: Twitter Client for Android Phones
With G1 powered by Google Android already launched, there will be a flurry of application releases in the coming days/weeks/months.
If you are hooked on to Twitter like me, you must be wondering if there is a Twitter client for Android mobiles available. I came across a website called Twitroid which will be launching a Twitter [...]
