Mobile Web News, Week of November 26, 2007

November 29, 2007 on 4:34 pm | In Mobile Web News |

Duuuha! … New Format from Now On
I’ve realized rather late in the day that these news clips will be more visible to search engines if each were a separate post.

So that’s how it’s going to be from now on!

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1,000,000 Downloads!
The Opera Mini 4 browser, designed for your cellphone, has chalked that statistic up since its release in November 2007.

It’s a good browser, no doubt. However, I find the native browser in my Nokia N73 smartphone provides the same features PLUS it does not reduce the fidelity of images like Opera does.

But if you don’t have a Nokia, you might want to try out Opera, it might well be worth it…

Source: http://www.phonemag.com/

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Killed by His Cellphone?
He was found dead with a melted cellphone in his pocket. The suspicion was that the Korean quarry worker’s cellphone battery had exploded and killed him.

But he also had broken ribs, a broken spine, lung injuries and heart damage, and the final verdict was that a cellphone could not have caused all this.

The autopsy will take 15 days, after which we’ll know more. In the meantime, you can tell the bomb squad to postpone checking out your cellphone

Source: MobileCrunch.com

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Firefox on Windows Mobile 6 Devices
Firefox, of the world’s most popular web browsers (100 million downloads including mine) now has a mobile version. It’s not been publicly launched, but it’s somewhere out there, installed or waiting to be.

Source: cellular-news.com

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University Courses on the Mobile Net… in Japan, of Course
As mentioned before, Japan is the frontrunner in mobile web usage: it is light years ahead of most other countries (the US is so underdeveloped in this area that it is not even allowed on the racetrack).

Japan’s Cyber University opened in April 2007, has 1,850 students and is empowered to confer Bachelor’s degrees. It is Japan’s only university to offer all its classes over the internet and has now started offering them over the mobile internet. Cyber University is 71 percent owned by SoftBank, a mobile carrier company.

Source: Mobilecrunch.com