Nokia Buys Novarra To Improve Web Experience On Its Phones
Nokia has just announced its acquisition of Novarra, a Chicago-based company that focuses on mobile browsing technologies. Novarra came up with the mobile browser, dubbed the Vision Mobile Browser, which has been used on smartphones and featurephones since 2002. There isn’t any mention of whether Nokia will be reusing the browser, or just cherry picking [...]
Opera Mini iPhone App Submitted For Approval
Opera’s popular Opera Mini mobile browser has been submitted to Apple’s App Store for approval, and everybody is busy wondering whether the app will be approved or not, albeit the smart money is on the app being rejected, considering Apple doesn’t have the habit of approving products that compete with its own. For those of [...]
Google Introduces Local Search For Mobile
Want to find a coffee store near you? Well, whether it’s related to search, you can be certain that Google wants a piece of the pie, and now Google has introduced local search for the iPhone and Android phones. When you’re at Google’s page on your mobile browser, just hit the “near me now” link [...]
Firefox For Mobile RC1 Released
A lot of you out there are itching to get Firefox Mobile (a.k.a. Fennec) installed on your phones, and as we enter 2010, we plus move one step closer to a final release of the mobile browser. The beta has been around for a while now, and it’s now gone one step further, with Firefox [...]