Opera Software
today announced that Opera Mini is going to Africa. Opera Software has
partnered with MTN, the leading telecommunications company in Uganda,
to bring the mobile Web to the company’s nearly three million
subscribers. By expanding into Africa, Opera is strengthening its
strategy to make the Web available to more people, on any device, from
anywhere in the world.

Well….Africa will be Mobile Web Land. That’s already in the books.

Today Adobe revealed plans to release a beta of its first Windows Mobile
application, with support for a limited number of handsets, next month. It will be available for Motorola Q9 Music and Q9 Global; Samsung’s Blackjack and a few Treos.

What a great day…I scratched my Itouch even that several sources told me that it is immune to scratches. Well….I guess my sources were wrong.

Anyways…Google Translate for Iphone launched. It let’s you translate into different languages on the go:

Never heard of it, but will test Teashark - a brand new mobile web browser.
Features include:
Intuitiv navigation
2-level zoom
Landscape view
Multiple tabs and history
Bookmark management with color tagging
Enhancd click and search

IBM - New Software and Services For Mobile Devices

Nielsen research just released that Americans and Brits show high interest in mobile olympics coverage.

According to the research “nearly 45% of US and 31% of UK mobile video users will be part of the mobile audience for the 2008 Olympic Games”.

The data also shows that track and field and gymnastics both rank among the
most popular Olympic events mobile video users want to watch on their
phones.

Found via dailywireless

The past two years it hasn’t been really great to live on the East Coast while all big international sports events happen in Europe or Asia.

However Google’s Mobile team put up a mobile optimized site about the Summer Games 2008, which allows to check results anywhere at any time. Just visit this page on your mobile.

What a relieve for hardcore summer olympics fans

You probably haven’t expected that, but DeNA, a mobile web buiness is worth $ 2.3 billion. I honeslty never heard of DeNA before, but the company owns massive mobile web traffic such as Jia Jia Cheng, a free social network for mobile phone users.
Besides DeNa owns Mobage-town, a site for free online games, a bunch of Ecommerce related service on the web an mobile (Pocket bidders, Shopping Mall, Auctions) and extended their services to China..

Pretty impressive and probably one of the most advanced billion dollar companies when it comes to mobile services.

Dominos is uncool since they used the Brooklyn subculture to make a buck of it:

So…order your pizza with Papa John’s brand new mobile web order service