The Washington Post has revamped their mobile site allowing seamless access to tighter information when you load the site from a mobile phone or a portable device such as the iPod touch / iPhone. The header sections are compressed to the top to make things easily accessible with just one touch.

How to Get It
Type www.washingtonpost.com into your browser. As long as you’re using a mobile device the new mobile site will automagically load.
Text “WPOST” to 98999 to get a link sent to your phone.
BlackBerry users: Download our icon to your home screen and get one-touch access to Washington Post …read more

OK folks, if you want to receive updates from the White House, they have created a new Twitter account, a spin off from Obama’s Twitter feed during the elections. Of course, it goes without saying that you can subscribe to their feed also through your mobile phone.
Which brings me to ask — do you actually turn on mobile updates for your Twitter feed, or is it really just one big mess? I used to turn it on — but realized it was such a hassle having to keep up with so many messages involuntarily as they were pushed to my …read more

A few days ago I was sent a product code that unlocks the full version of Audials Mobile, a S60 based application that seems questionable when it comes to music copyright laws. What it does is rather amazing: it scours the Internet Radio sites for songs and adds them to its database of over 70,000 songs. When you request for a song by typing in an artists’ name or searching for a particular genre, you’re given a listing of the most popular results. Audials allows you to download them. The disturbing thing is that the application is seamless and powerful, …read more

Hey geeks, it’s the holidays and I’m quite sure that I can’t wrench you out of your computers to go call your relatives. In its stead, I’m recommending Skype, Gizmo Project or this neat service called Gizmo Call, a browser based VoIP service that allows you to call any phone straight from your browser.

Who can I call?
You can call any other GizmoCall, Gizmo5 users, 800 numbers, or SIP address for no charge. Here’s a guide to free calls you can make. To call a traditional phone number and take advantage of some of the low rates on the net …read more

Mobile phone screens are getting bigger and bigger. The challenge is to figure out how to integrate it into a brick. Just like these weird concepts that push mobile real estate to creative limits, Nokia’s latest patent allows some creative fusion between the touch screen and button keys, reminiscent of the Sony Ericsson P series.
The challenge is to create a widescreen mobile phone that goes over the top in terms of design. The sliding keyboard concept is so 2008, apparently and in ‘09 we might be seeing some new calisthenics for phone hardware. The patents are self explanatory.
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It’s nothing new. Video games on mobile phones go hand in hand nowadays. Nokia milked this market with the N-Gage system, and there are now new efforts to doing more on your mobile phone in terms of gaming. MMO’s (massive multiplayer online gaming) in phones shouldn’t be too far in the drawing board.

Crafting massive online games for phones takes into account the engagement level of players. Right now, it would be a little iffy to create a full immersive experience for online games on phones because the fact that phones are put down in the house and picked up when …read more

Heads up! I heard Chuck Norris is coming this way!, screams the rebels as you play as Chuck Norris. Gameloft had mentioned that Chuck Norris was in a “weakened state” as he traveled around the world and got into an accident. So not like Chuck Norris, but fine, we’ll play along. But if Chuck Norris hears about this ….

Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain is out NOW by Gameloft. It plays a side-scrolling hack and slash and shoot and gun Chuck Norris as he goes around the world cleaning up the bad guys and sending them into “Retirement +10.”

I first …read more

While I was at Nokia Connect, one of our readers at CommunicAsia 2008 (watch the video) gave us a heads up on the new version of Yahoo! oneSearch for mobile phones. The new version has integrated voice search functions so that means, instead of typing out your search query, which is already easy enough, you can just speak your query into your mobile’s mic.
At ComminicAsia ‘08, they launched two new dialect versions comes for India and for Singapore. Apart from this, oneSearch is now also compatible with the latest BlackBerry devices namely the Pearl, the 8800 series and the …read more

Heysan is a desktop application workaround to the most popular IM clients. One way to use this would be as a subversive firewall rerouter for instant mesaging. Another way would be to log onto the mobile site for free use of instant messaging – of course, telco data services apply.
Heysan! is a mobile web based service that lets you use your MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and GTalk accounts in your mobile phone – for free! It doesn’t matter where in the world you are, what network or phone model you use, our patent pending technology works no matter what. …read more