The Gungle Ben Green makes nice with technology and humans

Posts Tagged Online

Vodafone UK is abusing its position, by Luca Passani

Luca Passani blows the whistle on another operator attempt to wall the garden, this time by stripping out the User Agent from devices and passing them through a transcoder… In other words: The User-Agent String has been changed by the Novarra gateway to cheat the content server into believing that the request is coming from [...]


Mobile Content Destination Sites II

Following up on Mobile Content Destination Sites. Russell Beattie cast some doubt on the future of directories for mobile web sites and servies: 3. I really doubt the short-term viability of “directories” of content. Even just a few months ago, I thought there’d be a place for a list of good links out there, but [...]


Scott Rafer from Winksite doesn’t see the end of the mobile web looming

Despite being an ‘Apple fanboy’, Rafer doesn’t see the iPhone killing the ‘mobile web’: Even if the iPhone were an effective broadband internet browsing device, which it isn’t, there’s maybe a million of them out there. A billion iPhone-equivalents is many years away. >> Vidya Lakshmipathy, however, is putting the smack down: Stripped-down sites crammed [...]


links for 2007-07-26

> > IT Facts Just the facts, Ma’am. (tags: reference web mobile) http://www.taniwha.org.uk/gprs.html Ross Barkman’s Information on GPRS networks – list of APNs for operators around the world. (tags: mobile connectivity GPRS) Mobile Clipper Mobile clipper is a free service that allows webmasters, publishers or anyone familiar with html to clip textual parts of web [...]


Phone Internet Access Points List

Via Mobile Phone Development comes this handy list of APNs for the world, which is handy for phone nerds.


Touch The Future

Luke Wroblewski has a great post on Apple’s digital input devices patents. Scrolly clickety telephone dialling? Yes, ma’am. Widdle pinky mouse button? You bet. “…a touch sensitive protruding member that is supported by a force feedback unit that is attached to the housing.”? Roger that.


Last.fm signs deal with Sony BMG

I missed this on June 26th: In protest of royalties fees which take effect next month, the amount of which has been recently estimated to surmount their revenues by nearly four times, America’s largest and best-known streaming music sites, plus others worldwide, have gone silent for the day. Probably because i don’t read enough, and [...]


After →