Those horns are actually part of the Scoppio del Carro ("Explosion of the Cart") Easter procession in Florence but here they herald the arrival of the 127th Carnival of the Mobilists. This carnival happens every Monday somewhere on the web and is a celebration of the best writing on mobile technology. I'm honored to be hosting it again here at WapReview. There were a lot of great entries this week, I've tried to pick the best of the best for you.
First up is Dean Bubley at Disruptive Wireless with a post about the emergence of 900mHz as a second 3G band in Europe and elsewhere. Click here to read about the networks that are using 900, the phones that support it and its potential for increased coverage.
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At Little Springs Design, Barbara Ballard looks at the effects that design, especially good design, can have on the all important ROI (return on investment). Having trouble selling expenditures on design resources to the bean counters at your company? Barbara offers some good arguments on why skimping in this area is not cost effective.
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Mobilestance's Jamie Wells is taking the summer off to get married and go on a cruise among other things. As a parting gift he offers readers a casual web game with a decidedly mobile theme, Android Invaders.
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Blogging at Technology, Mobility, Usability and other Musings, Sachendra Yadav takes an in depth look at mobile local search. He offers some suggestions on how local search should work - right down to the point of defining a model user interface.
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Reflections on things mobile's Geoff Ballinger describes his experiences (mobile version) with using Mippin to mobilize his blog, including a bit of advice on getting appropriate advertising on a Mippin site.
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Andreas Constantinou at Vision Mobile is conducting a survey aimed at mobile application developers. He's gathering data on how developers feel about the features, ease, costs and support associated with each of the major mobile platforms; BREW, S60, UIQ, Android, Windows Mobile, Java, Palm, Linux and Flash Lite. Hate taking surveys? To entice you Andreas is offering the chance to win $1000 in a prize drawing open to those who complete the survey.
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Writing at GoMo News, Rob Knight takes a critical look at Peter Gabriel's new music, film and video recommendation web service The Filter which also has a
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posted by Dennis Bournique
June 8, 2008 @ 10:03 pm
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