Netflix on the go

With Netflix Mobile you can view and manage your queue with your Internet-enabled mobile phone. Bookmark this page and you can instantly add recommended movies to your queue as soon as you hear about them.

Recycle With the Phone Manufacturer

Many of the major cell phone manufacturers – LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson offer mail-in options for recycling your cell phones regardless of the cell phones’ carrier or manufacturer.  You’ll need appropriate packing materials to mail your phone, but the manufacturers take care of the postage with pre-paid labels that you can print out.  Some additional considerations to remember when mailing your phone:

If you’re including batteries, please ensure that the battery is fully discharged and your phone is powered off. Please do not include any loose batteries.
Place phones in appropriate packaging/envelope. There’s no need to add extra packaging materials.
Print the pre-paid postage and affix it to the package. Make sure any previous delivery address and barcodes are covered.
Drop off the package/envelope in the mail. Learn More

Google Maps Mobile

Google offers all the utility of its Google Maps in a mobile web version for your mobile phone. With Google Maps Mobile, you can view maps, get turn-by-turn directions, see traffic conditions, find nearby businesses, and even find out your current location—without needing GPS. This service works for most web-enabled phones.

App lets parents monitor kids’ texting

It can be hard for parents to keep up with the new technology their kids are using. A new app from MyKidisSafe gives parents a measure of control over their children’s text messaging. Parents can restrict their kids’ mobile phone use while driving or during school hours. Parents can also enable filters that block objectionable content sent to their kids’ devices. Yet another way mobile technology can help give parents some much-needed peace of mind.

30 social networks in the palm of your hand

If you use online social networks like Facebook and you have a mobile phone, ShoZu has everything you need to manage your profiles and feeds on the go. With this one application, here’s just a taste of what you can do: upload photos and videos to YouTube and Flickr; view your friends’ feeds right on your mobile device; update your status; read and post comments; and much more. ShoZu comes preloaded on certain phones, or you can get the app at shozu.com.

Never get caught out in the rain again

Weatherbug Mobile lets you check the forecast from the palm of your hand. Mobile weather updates, forecasts, alerts, etc. On the website you can download the apps for your phone or a widget for your desktop.

Save time: Make a widget, find a widget

Mobile widgets, slideshows, gamecasts, feeds, and more delivered can be delivered to your phone at Plusmo mobile. You can also make a customized widget, without any coding required. News, sports, weather, TV show and company updates, social networking sites—Plusmo lets you take tens of thousands of your favorites to go.

Convert any blog into a phone-ready RSS feed

Read your favorite blogs using your existing mobile phone. The convenient tool at PhoneFeeds.com lets you simply enter the URL of your favorite blog to generate accessible content for your phone.

RSS on your mobile

News Alloy is a free Web Based Feed Reader for discovering, reading, and sharing news and information. View information from a wide variety of news sources, special interest publications and blogs via RSS and Atom. It’s easy to use and optimized for your phone.

RSS feeds galore at MobiFeeds

Add your own favorite RSS feed to MobiFeeds’ database, then access it through any 2G or 3G mobile phone. You can then grab your feed on the go (an XHTML browser is recommended for optimal viewing).

Keep up with your favorite RSS feeds

LiteFeeds is a customizable RSS reader for your mobile phone. Because the articles are cached and compressed, they’re perfectly optimized for your device. LiteFeeds also lets you sync your online subscriptions and send e-mails and alerts.

Keep up with your favorite RSS feeds

LiteFeeds is a customizable RSS reader for your mobile phone. Because the articles are cached and compressed, they’re perfectly optimized for your device. LiteFeeds also lets you sync your online subscriptions and send e-mails and alerts.

With the NY Times, it’s all the news that’s fit to go

For the true news junkie, you’ve got to know what’s going on. And if you read the New York Times, their mobile-enabled download will keep you in the loop at all times. Scan headlines, read articles, get stock quotes, check show times, search real estate listings, create news alerts, and even e-mail articles to friends from your phone.

Strip a site or RSS feed down to the bare bones to make it easier on your phone.

Use BareSite.com to view websites and RSS feeds faster and cheaper with your mobile device, allowing you to easily search for news, jobs, weather and traffic. Registration is not needed, and no download or installation is necessary.

How much for that mansion on the hill?

HouseFront uses SMS to deliver property values and other house-specific information. See a house you like and text the address to “HOUSE” (46873).

What’s that house worth?

With ZillowMobile if you see your dream home on a Sunday drive all you have to do is text an address to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and you’ll receive instant specs to research your (possible) purchase.

Wikipedia on the go!

Wapipedia is a web-enabled app that lets you access, search and navigate Wikipedia articles in a mobile-friendly manner. Just point your mobile browser of choice to Wapipedia to get all the goodness of Wikipedia on your phone.

Mobile emailing on your cell phone

Make your cell phone do things you only thought your BlackBerry could do. TeleFlip can convert emails into text messages and deliver them to your cell phone. Your carrier’s text messaging rates are the only charge. Get started online at

Amber Alert text messages

Get local Amber Alerts sent directly to your cell via SMS. Choose up to five zip codes. Most carriers wave the SMS fees for this service. Just enter your phone number on the site and Amber Alerts will be sent to you as text messages.

Stuck in a traffic jam and want to know why?

Get traffic reports for many major cities sent directly to your cell phone through Traffic.com. Just register on their site and they’ll help you avoid the next traffic jam.

Instant news alerts for the visually impaired

For the visually impaired, text based mobile technology doesn’t have much of a use. A new service from Audiopoint, called Voice Terminal Service (VTS), changes that. VTS is a service that alerts users via any telephone about updates to a news feed, keyword search, email or calendar item. Each item is read to the user over the telephone immediately after it happens.

Hey Beijing, do you Yahoo?

“2008 Olympics Coverage” is Yahoo’s newly launched mobile Olympics site where you’ll find Beijing time and weather at the top, and a timer that counts down the days, hours, and minutes until the start of the games on August 8th. The timer will likely be replaced with other content once the games begin. There is a section devoted to news and photos, which deliver the top headlines with links to read the full stories. 

Official Olympic updates on the go

The official site for Olympic news (in the U.S.), NBCOlympics, will be offering a mobilized version of their site and news via text (text OLYMPMICS to 51515). You can also access their mobile site directly with your web enabled phone. They’re offering mobile alerts, mobile video, and mobile TV news for select mobile devices.

Beijing mobile widget

Mobile widget maker Plusmo is also getting ready for the Games, offering a Beijing widget available at there their website which can be added to your phone to deliver the latest headlines.

Olympic video on the go

MobiTV customers can subscribe to a mobile channel showing NBC Sports programming, which will be all Olympics coverage come August.

SMS application answers your wildest questions

Ask ChaCha literally anything you want!  Simply send a text message to ChaCha (242242) with any question you can think of.  From restaurant recommendations, to directions, to pop culture references, to marriage advice ChaCha will reply with an answer.  Unlike other text services where only specific information can be given from a computer, ChaCha connects you to a real person.  A ChaCha employee “Guide” receives your question and will use the Internet to research the answer or if need be give their own opinion.  ChaCha guides may answer in different ways , unless there is only one possible answer to your question.  ChaCha is a great free SMS tool for info on the go or for just to having fun.

Healthy text message habits

Did you know that 3.8 million people suffer some sort of text-related injury each year?  Or that reports of sore wrists and thumbs are up more than 38 percent over the last five years?  If you take advantage of Virgin Mobile’s website PractiseSafeText.com, you can learn these facts and more, including a series of exercises you can do to prevent text-related injuries and maintain the digital dexterity you depend on to stay in touch with your friends and family!

Mobile baby name finder & due date calculator

Your Baby DataBase is a one stop mobile website for any expecting parent. YBDB has a searchable baby name database with hundreds of names, filtered by gender and origin, that provides each name’s meaning. The website also has a chat feature, a Pregnancy and Parenting 101 fact sheet and a pregnancy due date calculator. One cool feature provides a list of the top 10 baby names for each gender in each of the last eight years. In 2007, Jacob and Emily were the most popular baby names.

Never get a speeding ticket again

With Trapster your cell phone will alert you when you approach police speed traps on the road.  Trapster uses a social network to share drivers’ tips about speed trap locations in real time and on the go.  A radar detector won’t always work with the latest police equipment, but if you sign up free with Trapster you’ll have real time, user provided answers that can’t be countered by police technology.  Phone applications work with Apple’s iPhone, Windows Mobile, the BlackBerry, the Nokia N95 and other S60 smart phones.  Additionally, it works with GPS services such as Garmin and TomTom.