Recent Entries in mobile social networking
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Social Networking Most Popular on Mobile Internet, Says Ground Truth
Ground Truth found that social networking activity comprises more than half of the time spent on the Mobile Internet. They also reported that users of mobile-specific social networks are more engaged than users of PC-based social networks, such as Facebook...
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Mobile Web 2.0 Services Revs to Reach $18.9B in 2014, Says Juniper
Revenues for mobile access to Web 2.0 applications and services will hit $18.9 billion in 2014, notes a new report from Juniper Research. Presence-enabled communities, such as mobile voice-over-IP (VoIP), will be the primary market driver, followed by rapid growth...
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Web Apps n' Layars 2Day: Google Casts Social Net with Google Buzz for Mobile with Locations
Google is now offering Google Buzz, an add-on to the Gmail inbox to help jump-start conversations "buzz" about interests. Google Buzz lets you share web links, photos, videos, and more. The mobile version is location aware. Google Buzz for mobile...
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Samsung Mobile Explorers will Tweet & Post Olypmic Games to Samsung Website
Samsung Electronics announced the global winners of its Samsung Mobile Explorers contest. The lucky winners will travel to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and share their personal experiences and observations through social media and online posts to Samsung’s...
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AT&T Mobile Facebook Glitch Fixed, Says AT&T
The Associated Press, over the weekend reported cases where an AT&T customers using a smartphone accessing Facebook somehow entered someone else's Facebook account. Once in the wrong account the customers could see all the user's personal information."In a limited number...
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Verizon Free Feature Phone Apps 2day: The Social Beat Goes On with Social Beat for Facebook, MySapce & Twitter
Verizon is now offering Social Beat, a free social media application that allows Verizon Wireless customers to easily interact with their mobile social networking with a single app on their LG enV , LG Chocolate or feature phones. Social Beat...
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Super-Social-App AT&T Social Networks Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
AT&T has launched an app for social butterflies who want to be in multiple places at one time. AT&T Social Net, a free mobile social networking application that combines access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and customizable news feeds within a...
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m:Mafia Goes Symbian @ Ovi Store
Moblyng Games’ m:Mafia is now available in the Ovi Store.Moblyng Games’ titles allow players to connect with friends across multiple networks and devices, including Facebook, the iPhone, Android and the Nokia 5800 and N97 more platforms than any other social...
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BlackBerry (Storm) Free App of the Day: quub (cube) Instant Updater Beta
Wouldn't it be nice, if you could let all your friends or family know what you are up to to in a few clicks without hassling with lots of typing and entering updates into several different social networking sites?The quub,...
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Windows Mobile Facebook App Launched
Windows have released a Facebook app especially for Windows Mobile smartphones. They claim it is the first app to enable users to upload video directly from their handsets to their Facebook pages.The best part of the Windows Mobile Facebook app...
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Predicito Predicts Higher Predicto and Twitter Growth
A study released using Nielsen Mobile's data, shows mobile user demographics and market penetration of, and According to Nielsen data from the fourth quarter 2008 SMS Media Report, both services are clear industry leaders with an overwhelming 50 percent of...
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MySpace Mobile Usage High will Be 50% in Next Few Years
MySpace reported that their mobile usage increased almost 450 percent in 2008, with 7 billion mobile page views per month at Nokia Developer Summit 2009. Vice President of Mobile Operations John Faith revealed the growth of MySpace mobile. In one...
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Facebook for BlackBerry Updates Solves Calendar and # Glitches
Some folks who tried the new BlackBerry Facebook app, we mentioned, earlier this week, have had a few problems with the calendar and friends were blasted with requests.For some using the 1.5. first version Facebook for BlackBerry, the default calendar...
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MySpace uReport Gives Citizen Journalists Fox News Opp
MySpace is offering the official MySpace uReport through a partnership with FOX News where people can submit news via MySpace or their mobile device. Users will have the chance to be featured on FOX News.Currently, one of most recent stories...
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What Would Jesus Tweet? Good Friday Stations of the Cross and Passion Tweets
Trinity Wall Street Church has taken a mobile approach to Good Friday, they offer a web-based Stations of the Cross. Stations of the CrossA contemporary recreation of Christ's Passion, the online Stations allow you to meditate on Christ's final hours...
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MySpace on Windows Mobile Phones via Silverlight
MySpace will support Microsoft Windows Mobile and Microsoft Silverlight. The new MySpace mobile application, available this summer, will run on Windows phones and use Silverlight, Microsoft's free browser plug-in.The companies are in close collaboration to offer a MySpace for Windows...
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Social Networking More Mobile, Says Nielsen
According to a new Nielsen report "Global Faces and Networked Places," two-thirds of the world's Internet population visit social networking or blogging sites, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time. Social networking is also becoming more mobile. Time spent...
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blinko Public Beta for Private Meaningful Relationships
Buongiorno at the Social Networking World Forum in London, revealed the new beta version of blinko They claim blinko is the first mobile social network which allows users to select 20 people with whom to share constant and meaningful relationships,...
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Fring Now Expressed on Nokia XpressMusic 5800
Fring today announced the launch of a brand new version of its social community and communication service for the new Nokia 5800 touch screen device. Their news release says, “This has been one of the most hotly anticipated fring launches...
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TurboTax Twitter, Facebook and myspace Status Contest - Grand Prize $25,000
Here's a new twist on contests to get more people to use TurboTax software. TurboTax has launched a campaign through social networking and widgets, only. They launced a social networking website Freeloader Nation on myspace and are offering games with...
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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Will Be Tech-Savvy: Palm Pre Guest?
The new Late Night with Jimmy Fallon may be a beacon for gamers, mobile social networkers, uber-geeks and technoholics. Gavin Purcell former producer of G4's Attack Of The Show and now co-producer of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon says he...
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iSkoot Supports Quick Twittering
iSkoot added Twitter support to its Kalaida mobile services platform, which can deliver real-time Internet functionality to almost any handset sold today.iSkoot's Kalaida platform lets consumer handsets connect to Twitter and other communications tools the way PCs do: all at...
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MySpace Revamps Mobile Web Presence
MySpace will launch a new, more integrated and optimized mobile website. MySpace said it reinforced its continued commitment to the mobile social web with plans to develop new applications for Nokia in their S60 web runtime environment and Palm's new...
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Social Networking Tops On Mobiles, Says Openwave
Openwave Systems Inc. revealed research on trends for the mobile internet in North America, based on its Mobile Analytics product. Social networking is the number one area of interest to the mobile internet user. The top two search terms on...
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Mobile Social Networking Grows Substantially, Says Opera
Opera's latest State of the Mobile Web examined social networks. In this month's report, Opera reviewed the top social networks in key countries. Globally the top 10 social networks for Opera Mini users are (ranked by unique users): 1. vkontakte.ru...
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Mobile Dating Revenue Will Reach $1.4 Billion, Says Juniper Research
New revenue streams from event-based charging and advertising will help to push the value of the mobile dating and chatroom market to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013, says a new report by Juniper Research. This is part of a burgeoning...
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More Authority in Twitter Searches Twitority and Twithority
Lots of people like to ease drop and search Twitter to see what people are Twittering to each other. They want to know what Twitters are from the Twitters with the highest authority, meaning the ones with the most followers. ...
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Mobile Social Networking to Reach 800 Million in 2012
Mobile social network users is growing quickly. According to a study conducted by The Kelsey Group and ConStat, the percentage of mobile phone users who said they accessed social networks from their handset jumped 182% from September 2007 to October...
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22% Teen Girls Shared Risqué Photos of Themselves Via Text/Online, Says New Survey
Teenage girls and boys are sending, receiving, posting, and sharing naked or barely-clothed photos at an alarming rate. According to a survey released by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com, parents and teens have a...
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Virgin Mobile Adds Connect and Mobile Lounge
Virgin Mobile has two new social networking features: Connect a new social networking connector and Mobile Lounge, a new mobile community exclusive to Virgin Mobile....
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Multi-Social Networking Free iPhone App - Ziibii
Zumobi is now offering a free iPhone app of Ziibii, available on iTunes. Ziibii users have a new way to stay in-touch and in-the-loop with friends, photos and the world around them. Ziibii blends Facebook, Twitter, Flickr , YouTube, and...
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Sniff Uses Text to Sniff Out Friends' Locations for 25 Cents
Sprint is offering a new mobile phone application that hooks-up friends, called sniff (social network integrated friend finder), developed by the team at Useful Networks (www.useful-networks.com) sniff allows users to find friends automatically and in real-time, rather than the last...
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myspace App for BlackBerry
Myspacies will be happy to note that myspace now offers a BlackBerry mobile app at www.blackberry.com/myspace It has the following functions;Send and receive MySpace mailUpdate your Status and MoodView and send BulletinsAdd commentsPost your photosAnd much more.The my myspace aapp...
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Facebook Mobile Reaches 15 Million Facebookers
According to the Facebook blog usage of Facebook mobile products has grown from 5 million to 15 million active users since the beginning of the year. Types of Facebook mobile interaction are:Facebook mobile site, m.facebook.com, works on nearly any mobile...
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Mobile LBS Social Networking to Reach 82 Million Subscribers by 2013, Says ABI
Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS...
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Mobarazzi MMS Photo Sharing Service
Moborazzi.com is offering new social photo sharing platform for mobile phones. Their website says it is for members of the mobile generation who take and instantly share candid photographs of life with family and friends using their mobile phones using...
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blinko Queues Real Time Mobile Social Networking
Buongiorno debuts blinko, social networking specifically designed for mobile use. It allows users send and receive unlimited text from the mobile web, photo sharing, and chatting answering the inevitable question "What ya' doing?" in your posse aka flash mob.Their website...
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Social-Shopping Slifter on Virgin Mobile
LBS shop n' share tool Slifter, has partnered with Virgin Mobile USA. Virgin Mobile USA's five million customers can shop by searching over 300 million products at more than 150,000 local and online retailers, seeing price and availability, and getting...
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Free Mobile Viral Messaging Service Launches GeeSpark
ROK Entertainment is offering GeeSpark, the world's first mobile viral messaging service. GeeSpark will enable users to chat, share messages, images and YouTube videos on their mobile phones and forward these to their friends and groups, in a viral fashion...
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MySpace for BlackBerry Due in October
MySpace and Research In Motion announced they are joining forces to develop an integrated MySpace Mobile experience customized for BlackBerry smartphones. The new MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is fully optimized to deliver rich content and data to users on...
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AT&T Social Networking "My Communties" Launched
A T&T Inc. announced the launch of "My Communities," a new downloadable gateway that lets users create and manage multiple social networking accounts through a single dashboard view on their mobile phone. My Communities was developed by Intercasting Corporation, a...
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Verizon Gets Social with SocialLife $1.49 @ mo.
Verizon Wireless said today it is offering a brand-new application to give customers one-stop access to multiple popular social networking sites on their mobile phones. Called SocialLife, the mobile gateway was introduced on the eve of CTIA WIRELESS I.T. &...
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Virign Mobile USA Gets buzzd Social Networking
Virgin Mobile USA and buzzd announced a partnership that will bring the buzzd service to all Virgin Mobile USA handsets via the no-annual contract carrier’s WAP deck giving Virgin Mobile subscribers an interactive, real-time local mobile service. The companies are...
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JuiceCaster Now Feeds Photo & Video Juice 2 Friends on BlackBerry Curves
Social media photo and video sharing app JuiceCaster, is now available for Blackberry Curve devices via a free beta application for users in the United States..In the coming weeks, the free beta will be opened up for Blackberry Pearl users,...
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hi5 Globilizes and Mobilzes Networking, Photos in 26 Languages
hi5 Networks, announced the availability of hi5 Mobile. The global social networking site is now available on mobile phones in 26 different languages. With hi5 Mobile, users can easily send and receive messages, update status, view friends’ profiles, share photos,...
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Digg Adds Full Featured Mobile Site
Digg has launched an enhanced mobile version (m.digg.com )- designed for phones that support the full web browsing experience, such as a Treo, Blackberry or that new iPhone you just waited in line all morning to get. This version...
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GyPSii to Social Networks and Embeds with Samsung Phones
GyPSii geo-mobility social networking platform, today announced it has entered into a multi-year worldwide agreement with Samsung Electronics. Under the terms of the agreement, GyPSii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, and GyPSii branding rights to Samsung,...
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Loopt Connects to Facebook
Loopt social-mapping t has joined Facebook Connect to allow users to "connect" their Facebook identity, friends, and privacy settings to the Loopt service. Working with Facebook Connect will allow Loopt users to share and discover recommendations for nearby businesses, integrate...
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Social Photo Show 'n Tell with My Show from Alltel
Alltel Wireless now offers a new user-generated slide show application MyShow. MyShow, enables customers the ability to become social media publishers with a few simple clicks to create custom slideshows that showcase their photos from their phones. The application automatically...
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Garmin Casts Social Net with GyPSii Geo-location Social Networking
GyPSii, the leading geo-location and mobile social networking provider, announced it has entered into a multi-year worldwide agreement with Garmin Under the terms of the agreement, GyPSii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, development licenses, and GyPSii branding...
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AT&T Gets Juicedcaster and Buzzwired
AT&T announced the launch of two new mobile applications — JuiceCaster 6.0 and Buzzwire — that keep customers connected to the online world. JuiceCaster 6.0 enables you to use your AT&T wireless device to instantly share and post your mobile...
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Now You Can Whrrl and Map Your Friends on BlackBerry
Pelago, creators of the mobile social discovery service Whrrl, announced new mobile support for the BlackBerry Pearl and Curve. Available for free to millions of BlackBerry users in the U.S., Whrrl provides a new mobile medium for discovering and sharing...
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MilliGens Love Mobile Social Networking, Says In-Stat
Mobile social networks are quite popular with the Millennial generation, just as social networking is, reports In-Stat . Blogging, photo and video sharing, location-based socialization services, games, SMS, and IM will eventually be combined to afford the mobile user the...
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Friendster Goes Mobile in US & Indonesia
Friendster announced Friendster’s new mobile site, accessible at m.friendster.com from any web-enabled mobile device. The new mobile site is the first in a suite of forthcoming mobile offerings referred to as Friendster Mobile.In the coming weeks, the site will be...
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IBM & RIM Alliance Offers Web 2.0 & Hosting for BlackBerry
IBM and RIM announced a strategic partnership to help mainstream workers move beyond basic communications (email, phone, etc.) to working with their peers wirelessly on the road as if they were in the office, including holding meetings, finding experts, analyzing...
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ShoZu Adds Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster & Twitter
ShoZu Inc. announced that it has expanded its mobile social media service to Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter and four additional Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 communities. With these eight new integrations, ShoZu now enables mobile users to interact with their...
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Telstra to Provide Text, Digital Prayer Walls, Social Networking & Webcasting 4 WYDO8
The Pope will send daily text messages to young people during World Youth Day and Telstra is providing the technology to send his message. Pope Benedict XVI will send text messages of hope and inspiration directly to pilgrims, reaching young...
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Crushing & Flushing Now Availabe via T-Mobile
Crush or Flush is announced that it is live on T-Mobile's deck,.The T-Zones portal is featuring Crush or Flush in its WAP directory as a key site for social networking and chat.With a U.S. community of more than 1 million...
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Frengo Social-Networks Social Networks with Flirt & LOL
Frengo, a provider of social mobile services, announced the availability of a suite of applications that run on top of and across Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Orkut and Bebo. Frengo focuses on social applications that are available anytime and anywhere -...
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T-Mobile Juices Up with JuiceCaster
JuiceCaster, a mobile social-networking service, is set to launch on T-Mobile USA. The wireless carrier will make JuiceCaster version 6.0 available on 12 of its top handsets. T-Mobile joins Alltel, US Cellular and Cricket Wireless as the US operators who...
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Sprint Links to Free MySpace in Early '08
MySpace and Sprint announced today that Sprint will be the first U.S. wireless carrier to link to the free MySpace Mobile Web site once it officially launches in early 2008, at no additional charge to Sprint data subscribers. Sprint...
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MySpace on T-Moble Sidekick Soon
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Danger, Inc., and MySpace, the country's most trafficked Web site, today announced a highly integrated MySpace Mobile experience for the T-Mobile® Sidekick®. "Sidekick users are often the hub of their circle of friends, and MySpace is the...
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