Last night I was browsing around the web when I saw very handy collection of Web Sites that are optimised for mobile devices. I thought I should share
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Business
Ameritrade
Trade and Watch Stocks
Bloomberg
Track your portfolio
Business Week
Mobile Business Week
Fidelity
Forbes
Mobile Forbes
StockPoint
Can't create a portfolio, but other tools such as charts are awesome
Schwab
Entertainment
Billboard
Music industry weekly that tracks record and song popularity in dozens of "charts", the best known of which is the Billboard Hot 100. All the charts are available on this new mobile site along with album cover art and chart history by artist.
Broadway Mobile
Mobile guide to Broadway plays, pls synopses, cast list and curtain times for current on-Broadway shows.
ClubFone
Nightlife guide for 30 US cities. Lists the major venues and headliners for various categories of music and comedy. Also a good selection of neighborhood bars, brewpubs and dance clubs.
Fandango
Buy those tickets on your way to the theater. Theatre show times and movies as well.
Radio Online
Steam that radio to your device using Tuned.mobi's service.
News - International
AllAfrica
Good to see Africa represented in the mobility space.
BBC News
This is BBC's PDA website. The graphics are awesome and are optimized for the PDA form factor. For WAP website, go here.
CanWest
CanWest's take on the news is also non-wap based. Mobile continues to go mainstream.
ChannelNewsAsia
Based in Singapore, here's a non-wap news site for APAC.
CNN International
If you're a CNN junkie, here's your fix.
DW - Deutsche Welle
German broadcaster but you can get content in 29 different languages from this site.
India Times
I usually don't like wap but India Times is a really rich site.
International Herald Tribune
117-yo Paris based English language daily. Solid graphics and very fast.
Malaysian News
Here's a site in English, Malay and Chinese
SwissInfo
Can't get enough of EMEA, here's another great broadcaster taking it to mobile
News - United States
ABC News
WAP based
CBS News
HTML based
Chicago Tribune
Get the latest from the Windy City's best daily newspaper.
Christian Science Monitor
Popular and html based.
KING5
Seatttle area folks can get the latest news, weather, and traffic.
LA Times
Arguably one of the top papers in the country mobilized!
MSNBC
Uses browser detection to serve you the best content for your device.
New York Business
Gotta get your business news from the Big Apple.
Orlando Sentinel
Going to MGX or CTIA? Here's your news, plus you can email articles.
Salon
Popular Online News magazine is mobile.
SF - KTVU
Fox's KTVU uses intelligent browser detection to help send content for your screen size.
Washington Post
One of the most prestigious papers in the US has fixed it's mobile site.
USA Today
WAP based version of a popular American Daily - Great Sports.
News - Humor/Satire
The Onion
Humorous, made up news stories.
Package Tracking
FedEx
Track a package, get rates, or find a FedEx store.
People Search
InfoSpace
White Pages, Yellow Pages and Reverse Phone directory.
Switchboard
White and Yellow pages. Reverse phone number lookup. Driving directions
YP
Yellow Pages, While Pages Reverse Phone Lookup, Reverse Address Lookup, Neighbor Look-up, and MapQuest Maps and Driving Directions
Reference
Answers.com
Dictionary.com
Dictionary
LangtoLang
Medical Questions
Pocket Doctor
Wapedia (Wikipedia)
Search - Local
10Best
Find the 10 Best of anything in 3,500 cities around the world. Very nice HTML based site.
MSN Live Local
Web site for Live Search.
Starbucks Locator
Get your fix anywhere in the US or Canada.....sorry EMEA
Search - Web
Google
Pretty good site but results are an amalgam of mobile and non-mobile optimized sites which makes the usability of web searches questionable.
Live Search
Microsoft's Web Search
Yahoo oneSearch
Yahoo's Web Search
Shopping
Amazon
Amazon.com Shopping Site - Books/Music/DVDs/Toys/etc.
Craigslist
Free Classified Ads
Century 21 - House Shopping
Drive a new neighborhood and search fort available houses while you're at it. Brilliant!
Ebay
Worlds Largest Auction site / Garage Sale
Overstock.com
Supposedly overstock items being blown out at low prices.
NY Book Review
Books
Social Networking
Flickr
Yahoo's Photo Sharing Site
Live Spaces
Your personal web page with blogs, photos, etc. By Microsoft
Sports
BBC Sports
CBS Sportsline
ESPN
ESPN Sports
Travel - Airline
Air Canada
America West
American Air
Alaska Air
Austrian Air
Continental Air
Delta Air
El Al
Jetblue
KLM
Lufthansa
Northwest Air
Qantas
SAS
Southwest
United Airlines
US Airways
Travel - Destinations
Disney
Visitor's Guide to Disney parks - Superfast!
Travel - General / Tools
Cabbies.mobi
Get a cab in the US, Canada, or the UK
CarRentals.com
Concierge
FlightStats
Simple Flight Status Website. Great for checking on airport status, security wait times, and flight delays.
Fodors
Travel Guide
Travel - Hotels
Hotels.com
Travel - Rail
DB European Travel
Plan trips between any town in Europe.
Travel - Booking
CheapTickets
Can't book, but you can view your itineraries.
Kayak.com
Travel Meta-Search engine is really cool.
Orbitz
Flight status, itineraries, hotel finder, and contact info.
Travel - Trip Planning
Hop Stop
Public Transportation in DC, NYC, SF, Boston, and Chicago
NextBus
Satellite tracking tells you when the next bus will arrive.
Portland Transit Tracker
WebWatch
Worldwide Travel Info
Weather
Animated Weather
PDA Animated Weather - Not only can you get the weather, but the satellite images are animated and zoomable.
WeatherBug
Weather Channel
Get your US weather here by zip, or city/state.
Weather Network
Get your international forecasts here.