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Weary of mobile browsers that act like every other desktop browser, only shrunken to fit a smaller screen, browser-smiths are endeavoring to make Web interfaces a little more interesting. iPhone (see CNET's coverage) is the obvious rock star of the moment with its touch screen browser, and yesterday I reviewed Yahoo Go 2.0 Beta, the next generation of Yahoo's mobile delivery method for sampling the company's core Web services.

Today's lucky winner is Mozilla's Minimo, an open source mobile browser that acquired its name not from the more renowned Firefox browser, but from Mozilla's much earlier project. As one Minimo forums moderator quipped, "It ain't Firefox..."... Read more