Last week we released a Google Search option on biNu which runs 4-5 times faster than the standard browser on a low-end 2G phone take a look:
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Mobile Warming
Posted by gour.lentell, February 25th, 2010
Think Your iPhone Internet Is Flaky Now? It’s Only Going To Get Worse! Interesting article today in the Business Insider by Jeff Glueck, CEO of Skyfire – http://bit.ly/bowC2a. He argues that smartphones are killing mobile carriers’ bandwidth, and that server-based browsers like Skyfire (or, we’d add, Opera Mini) could be a better solution. Amen, and to that we’d add biNu!
Barely A Quarter Of Cellphone Owners Use The Mobile Web
Posted by gour.lentell, February 24th, 2010
Business Insider reported today that according to new research by the US Federal Communications Commission, barely a quarter of U.S. mobile phone users use the mobile web: http://bit.ly/bJQsx0. We think that might be because it’s still too slow, too difficult and not compelling enough for the average mobile subscriber. Our mission is to make mobile internet services super fast, easy to use and above all, useful!
Google Search on biNu
Posted by gour.lentell, February 19th, 2010
Today we released a Google Search option on the biNu platform. The application took two days to develop and provides search results 4-5 times faster than a standard browser on a low-end mobile (Nokia 1680c). In our tests biNu typically delivered Google search results within 3-4 seconds whereas the same search query in the standard Nokia browser, or the Opera Mini browser, took 16-18 seconds! We’ll have a video showing this with two phones side by side by Monday.
Five billion people to use mobiles in 2010
Posted by gour.lentell, February 17th, 2010
The ranks of mobile phone subscribers will swell to five billion people this year thanks to the growth of smartphones in developed nations and mobile services in poor nations, a UN agency said Monday, according to a Sydney Morning Herald article
Another highlight of just how large the mobile internet market opportunity is and the difference it’s going to make to the lives of many people.
Good business in emerging markets
Posted by gour.lentell, February 16th, 2010
“India has a billion people and is primarily a rural country – if you get a dollar a month from 200 million farmers, that’s a good business.” – Fast Company
biNu open platform
Posted by gour.lentell, February 15th, 2010
In essence, biNu is a delivery platform that can take content and applications hosted anywhere on the Internet and deliver them to mobile phones with incredible efficiency. Which means a user experience that’s lightening fast and straight forward, even on cheap low-end phones on slow networks.
And biNu can handle practically any language script, without worrying about the language capability installed on a mobile device.
We’ve done the hard work of building the software platform to solve the problem of excruciating response times when it comes to the internet experience on most of the three billion phones in the global market today. Now it’s about connecting those three billion people with as many useful, interesting, valuable and entertaining applications and services as possible.
Next quarter we plan to open up the biNu platform to enable any application developer, content or service provider to reach their mobile audience at lightening speeds, without having to worry about what phone, operating system and network a mobile user is using. Imagine an Internet website being restricted to specific computers, particular operating systems and only available on certain network connections – crazy!! Shouldn’t be like that on the mobile Internet either.
Developing a biNu app is simplicity itself. You can use any preferred technology and tools and host anywhere on the internet, just provide an application URL to the biNu proxy server. Application output is delivered to the biNu proxy in “PADL”, a simple XML schema for describing biNu applications.
Developers will be able to register online with biNu, access technical information describing PADL, access a development platform to test their apps and then register them when complete. Developers will also be able to prioritize their apps on the biNu client home-screen for mobile users they introduce to the biNu mobile client.
And best of all, the biNu platform will be free to use – for developers, content providers, and mobile users. biNu also uses relatively little network bandwidth resulting in significantly lower data costs for users and/or network operators).
Mobile impact on grassroots economics
Posted by gour.lentell, February 15th, 2010
“The appearance of mobile phones in the hands of average Africans is already accelerating the growth of grassroots economics.” – BusinessWeek
Mobile spend in emerging markets
Posted by gour.lentell, February 14th, 2010
“People in emerging markets spend disproportionate amounts of their income on mobile phones, and are likely to continue to do so.” – Bloomberg News
All the world’s knowledge
Posted by gour.lentell, February 13th, 2010
I recall a visit to the inner sanctum of Google back in 2003 and learning that one of their key missions in life was to “make all the information in the world available to everyone”. Pretty good progress so far but mobiles are going to be key..!
Mobiles vs Pcs
Posted by gour.lentell, February 13th, 2010
“There are four times as many mobile subscribers in the world as there are installed PCs.” – Financial Times
Facebook Mobile
Posted by gour.lentell, February 12th, 2010
Over 100 million people actively use Facebook from a mobile device every month, the company announced today. This comes just six months after they announced reaching 65 million mobile users, so the service is clearly growing rapidly. Facebook access is available on every smartphone OS, as well as via text message in 32 countries.
Whilst Facebook has a great mobile WAP browser interface, the reality is that WAP browsing on low-end mobiles is still a very ordinary experience – just way to too slow basically.
Imagine the possibilities if most of the 3 billion+ mobile users in the world today could access popular web services like Facebook really-really fast. Facebook’s user base of 400 million today could become 2 billion…
Developing countries
Posted by gour.lentell, February 12th, 2010
“Developing countries now account for about two-thirds of mobile phones in use, compared with less than half of subscriptions in 2002.” – The Guardian
World’s computer
Posted by gour.lentell, February 11th, 2010
“The cell phone is the world’s most ubiquitous computer.” – The New York Times
Great email quote from biNu partner:-
Posted by gour.lentell, February 8th, 2010
“a blindingly fast and useful internet experience on very low end handsets, on poor connections, with the capacity to render in the native language, even when it isn’t supported on the handset itself..”





