Wordpress makes blogs more mobile-friendly

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In an attempt to make its blogs more mobile-friendly, Wordpress has launched two themes that will automatically be displayed when a Wordpress.com blog is accessed from a cell phone, the company announced Tuesday.
The type of mobile phone a user employs dictates what the different blogs will look like, the company said in a [...]

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Fennec’s third alpha now ready for Windows Mobile

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On Friday, Mozilla released Fennec Alpha 3 for Windows Mobile, the latest in Mozilla’s effort to put its Firefox browser on a mobile phone. As with Fennec 1.0 beta 3 for the Maemo platform found on some Nokia Internet Tablets, Fennec for Windows Mobile makes changes to the mobile browser’s theme, and its scrolling [...]

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Yahoo counters Google Latitude: Friends on Fire

Taking a different approach to Google’s Latitude software, Yahoo has released a Facebook application called Friends on Fire that lets people share their location with each other.
Google Latitude is an island unto itself, using Google’s own technology for cell phone-based location detection and for managing who gets access to your location. Friends on Fire, though, [...]

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Apple tweaks user reviews to show version number

This week Apple made a very small, but important tweak to the user rating system on its iTunes app store. It now shows which version of an application the user was running when they wrote the review. This has been applied retroactively, so that reviews written before the change will show which version the users [...]

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Yahoo rolls up mobile products into single service

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At the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, Yahoo announced a revamping and reorganization of its mobile offerings.
Beginning at the end of March, the company plans to roll out a new test version of its mobile Web start page, along with new smartphone applications that consolidate several of Yahoo’s mobile [...]

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Google going mobile with Book Search

Google is opening a new chapter in its book digitization saga, this time taking on the likes of Amazon.com’s Kindle and Sony’s eReader.
The search giant on Thursday launched a mobile version of its Google Book Search, giving iPhone and Android users instant access to more than 1.5 million public domain books. The works of [...]

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