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Good news from Skyfire. Beta 0.85 of the Skyfire Browser has been released! Best of all, it's now a direct mobile download and registration is no longer required.  Until today Skyfire was only avai...

Soccer Laduma (soccerladuma.mobi) is yet another new African based mobile website.  It's the mobile web edition of a weekly newspaper that's the country's largest soccer publication.  South Africa ...

A couple of regular Wap Review readers contacted me this week to announce new mobile sites they have created. I don't automatically post about every personal site that I hear about but these are qu...

WapReview.com and WapReview.mobi were both down for about seven hours today starting at around 1 PM Pacific Time.  My hosting provider 1and1,  can tell be nothing other than that a hardware failure...

Cartoon: Hugh MacLeod
This week the Carnival of the Mobilists moves to the Mippin Blog where host Scott Beaumont has showcased ten recent posts on mobile issues from around the web.
There's a  mob...

Are US GSM/HSDPA carriers running out of bandwidth?  It sure looks like it.  First AT&T killed the "unlimited" data package for GoPhone pay as you go users, then they took away the option to sign u...

Last month wrote a post, Explosion in African Mobile Browsing about the rapid adoption of the mobile web in many African countries.  Opera Mini Traffic from the continent is up 180% since the begin...

OK,  I'm not much of a Twitter user.  I've had an account for a couple for almost a year and I've posted maybe eight tweets.  But I received a request from a reader to tweet when I publish a new po...

TmoNews.com is a  seven month old news blog covering T-Mobile USA.  The site is updated daily, and it's not one of those mobile "news" sites that just regurgitates the latest press leases.  TmoNews...

The largest US mobile carrier, Verizon Wireless has started funneling traffic between Verizon feature phones and the  web through a transcoder from Novarra.  Verizon calls the service "Optimized Vi...