Mobile Web News, Week of October 22, 2007

October 17, 2007 on 8:12 pm | In Mobile Web News |

Blackberry Users: Facebook in the Near Future

(a) Are you a Facebook regular??
(b) Are you a Blackberry user??

If you answered ‘yes’ to both the above, then read on.

Otherwise please find something gainful to do and do it!

Coming back to the subject, the facility will be available “later this year”.

However, seems like you can download it right now from the Blackberry site (oxymoron?).

Source: switched.com

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Sync Desktop and Mobile Bookmarks with Opera Link
Using the Opera browser?
Using the Opera Mini 4 Beta browser on your mobile?
Wanna sycnchronize the bookmarks on both of them?

Well now you can, with the “Opera Link” service provided by Opera software. Open a “MyOpera” account on Opera.com and from your desktop Opera choose “synchronize bookmarks”. Then open Opera Mini 4 Beta on your mobile and choose the link of the same kind.

Shazam, your bookmarks are synced on your mobile and desktop!

Source: brighthand.com

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Japanese Women Fight Gropers… Shyly
Much to my surprise, Japanese men grope women in Japanese trains.If it had been the US, said women would scream, stop the train and file a sexual harrassment suit. But the Japanese (and other Asian) women are non-protesting to men by nature.

Now there’s a anti-groping mobile app by Takahashi the games developer that quickly displays a protest message on the woman’s screen for her to unobtrusively show the groper. The message can be one of the following: “Excuse me, did you just grope me?” “Groping is a crime,” and “Shall we head to the police?”

Something is better than nothing, I guess!

Source: MobileCrunch

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Instant Comparison Shopping with mShopper from Verizon
You’re in a store and you want to buy that exercise bike. How do you know the price is good?

Simple. Launch mShopper on your cellphone, enter the first two letters of the brand and model number. Bang! The best price on the market appears. If you like the merchant who offers that price, you can buy from them with a single click.

mShopper is available from Verizon’s Mobile Web 2.0(SM) service for $5 per month.

Source: CNN-Money

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Instant Mobile Video Sharing with aFLIX
Heard of aPIX? That’s the paid mobile service to which you can upload and share pictures taken on your mobile. Now its creator, FunMobility, has launched aFLIX: take videos with your mobile, upload and share them immediately.

The service also enables rating videos straight from mobiles, and flashes the highest-rated ones on your mobile screen.

FunMobility offers carriers the service and does not sell to subscribers directly. $4.99 per month is all it takes (on the average), depending on who your carrier is…
Source: Marketwire