During our daily routine we are on the move for a considerable amount of time and may not have access to a computer.  At these times, the mobile phone that we carry with ourselves can be a useful device for accessing information from the Internet and for getting things done.  In this post, I am mentioning 50 sites which are highly optimized for mobile phones and will let you do various activities which would have, otherwise, required access to a computer.  So, here we go:

Newspapers & News Channels: International & U.S. 

BBC News

International Herald Tribune

India Times

AllAfrica

CNN International

ABC News

CBS News

Chicago Tribune

Washington Post

USA Today

Business, Finance & Stocks

Business Week : Mobile version of the magazine

Forbes: Mobile version of Forbes

Ameritrade: Stock tracking and trading

Bloomberg: Helps tracking your portfoilo

Schwab: Stock tracking and trading

Search & Reference

Dictionary.com: Mobile dictionary

Answers.com: Search answers from your mobile

Wapedia: Mobile encyclopedia

InfoSpace: Business and People search

Live: Live Search for mobile phones

Super Pages:  Business, People, Movie and Reverse phone number search

Starbucks: Find nearest Starbucks in U.S. and Canada

10Best: Search Best 10 of anything in across the world

Google: Good’ol Google search for mobile phones

Yahoo OneSearch: Yahoo web search for mobiles

Entertainment & Social Networking

Billboard: Find music rankings, artists and news

Tuned: Streaming music from online radio channels

Fandango: Mobile based ticket booking service for movies

Facebook: Mobile version of Facebook

YouTube: Watch videos on your mobile

TV Guide: Find TV programs from your phone

Windows Media:  Media portal on mobile phone

ZooVision: Media portal with video and audio podcasts, radio, trailers etc.

Medeo: Entertainment and lifestyle content

The Onion: Humorous news stories

Sports

ESPN

BBC Sports

NFL

MLB

NBA

CBS Sportsline

Travel, Trip-Planning & Bookings

Orbitz: Find hotels, view itineraries, airport and flight information

Kayak.com: Searche for cheap travel tickets across search engines

Hotels: Name says it all

FlightStats: Check flight status from mobile phone

Cabbies: Cabs on mobile in U.S., U.K. and Canada

CarRentals: Another cab service

Concierge: Travel guide

SeatGuru: Find the flight seating plan and available amenities

NextBus: Shows the status of the next transit vehicle arrival using satellite tracking

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