Sunday, July 12, 2009

Soccer Mobile Websites

Soccer is played in almost every country and is considered the most popular sport in the world. Here are some of the mobile web sites covering soccer around the world with live scores, results, news and statistics.
1. soccerladuma.mobi
2. f365-za.com/w/f365m
3. europefoot.mobi
4. premleague.mobi
5. mobile.uefa.com
6. www.yourfootball.eu/
7. Goalkeeper.mobi
8. mobile.safc.premiumtv.co.uk
9. Soccerway.mobi
10. M.goal.com

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Mobile Web usage still on the rise: Opera

In March 2009, more than 23 million people used Opera Mini, a 12.1 percent increase from February 2009 and more than 157 percent increase from March 2008. Those users viewed more than 8.6 billion pages in March 2009. Since February, page views have gone up 17.4 percent, Opera reports.

Year over year, page views have increased 255 percent.

The growth in data transfers also highlights the value Opera Mini offers to carriers. In March 2009, Opera Mini served 148 million megabytes of data to handsets worldwide.
In all but two of the top 10 countries, the highest level of Opera Mini use is at the tail end of the day – from 8pm to midnight. In Indonesia, Opera Mini is used most between noon and 4pm. In China, Opera Mini is used most between 8am and noon.

An interesting finding was that the mobile Web is booming in Latin America.
From March 2008 to March 2009, overall page views in the top 10 countries listed increased 673 percent. From March 2008 to March 2009, overall unique users in the top 10 countries listed increased 164 percent. From March 2008 to March 2009, overall data transferred in the top 10 countries listed increased 510 percent.

As millions of people each month discover the Web through Opera Mini, content providers have an incredible opportunity to seize competitive advantage in this new medium,” Mr. von Tetzchner said. “By simply ensuring their content works on any device, they will open themselves to the next generation of Web users.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Use of Social network via mobile rises

The factor driving uptake of the mobile Internet in Europe is social networking, according to a new study by comScore.

The figures show a 152% year-on-year increase in the number of Europeans using mobile social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. Now, just over 12 million people in the UK, Germany, Spain, France and Italy are accessing social network sites from their mobile phones.

While the average mobile social networking penetration is 5%, the U.K. tops the charts with 9.2% of users accessing social sites from their mobile phones followed by Spain and Italy. Germany sits at the bottom with just 3.3%.

Almost a third of those using their mobiles to visit social networking sites (29.7%) don't visit any other Internet sites other than the social networks. Women are heavier users of mobile social networks than men - 48% v. 32% - found the study.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Yahoo - mobile internet

Yahoo announced the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo Mobile service, positioned as a personalized mobile starting point to the Internet. Yahoo Mobile will be available on the mobile Web as an application developed for the Apple iPhone and other smartphones from Nokia, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, as well as those powered by the Windows Mobile operating system. Yahoo Mobile will be available initially through a managed beta program, with general availability expected in the second quarter of 2009.

Yahoo Mobile is the most visited mobile Web site in the U.S., according to comScore. There are a huge and growing number of consumers who want a true Internet experience from their devices. They are providing a browser version for a wide range of phones, an iPhone app that provides a faster, richer user experience with more functionality and the Yahoo Mobile app for smartphones that will work across hundreds of devices shipped in the last few years. Yahoo Mobile will give consumers access to their email and social networking accounts from content providers, as well as instant messaging, address book and calendar tools.

Source: Taken from various websites.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Voting Goes Mobile In Estonia

The Estonian government has agreed to a resolution that allows their people to cast votes via mobile phone. The new cell phone balloting option will be available to Estonians starting in 2011. Few years before, they became the very first nation to allow their citizens to vote via the internet.

users willing to vote via their cell phones need to have their mobile equipped with a special chip available from the Estonian Governmental offices. The chip is necessary in order to confirm the voter’s identity, and prevent fraud.

In the future we can expect more countries allowing mobile voting.