Entries tagged with “mobilesocialnetworking” from WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

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 single application. The apps works on many of the popular AT&T feature/texting/web phones such as LG (Vu, Neon, Shine, etc), Motorola RAZR and Samsung (Jack, Propel, Eternity, Impression.)

Through a single carousel menu, users can view and manage their social communities, communicate and track events in real time, and get live news feeds from over 35 leading news, sports, and entertainment sites. Once a user populates the application with his or her information, users can see and respond to tweets, status updates, wall posts, profile comments, photo activity and friends' news feeds across their communities. Users can also access new or unread articles from their customized content feeds.

Users can even be notified that they have updates on their social networking accounts when the AT&T Social Net application is closed. When certain actions like comments from a friend, new wall posts or photo updates occur, users will receive a pop-up notification with an option to launch the application and check their updates. Users who wish to disable this notification feature can do so in the application's settings menu.

Customers can download AT&T Social Net at no cost in the AT&T MEdia Mall, accessible directly from handsets and online at www.att.com/mediamall. Standard data and messaging rates apply during use of the application, and an unlimited data plan is strongly recommended. For more information on AT&T's data and messaging plans, go to www.att.com.

"Five of the top 10 searches on our mobile Web portal are for social networking sites, a clear indication of the growing popularity of mobile social networking," said Mark Collins, vice president of voice and data products, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "With this app, we're satisfying the increasing demand for aggregation apps that make it easy for customers to be active in multiple communities simultaneously."

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 gaming developer.

“Nokia has the distinction of servicing a vast majority of the world-wide wireless market,” said Stewart Putney, CEO and founder, Moblyng Games. “Adding the Nokia platform and the Ovi Store marks a step for Moblyng Games towards global mobile gaming — a feat we are proud to pioneer. Each time we add to the list of supported Moblyng Games devices and markets, truly cross-platform gaming becomes available to millions of additional players, and that is revolutionary.”

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 their respective community market share in terms of SMS activity. Twitter's service has grown remarkably in the past year to take the leading position in terms of share of SMS transactions with carrier such as AT&T and Verizon. During the fourth quarter of 2008, it has bypassed other free mobile services including ESPN, Facebook, and Google. At the same time, Predicto remains the undisputed leader in the premium mobile space, further distancing itself from NBC in second place.

Motorola, Inc. and Carl Icahn today announced that they have reached an agreement under which William R. Hambrecht, and Keith Meister, a managing director of the Icahn investment funds and principal executive officer of Icahn Enterprises, will be nominated for election to Motorola’s Board of Directors at the 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and included in the Company’s 2008 proxy statement. In addition, Mr. Meister has been appointed to serve on the Board, effective immediately.

In connection with the nomination of Messrs. Hambrecht and Meister, the Icahn Group, which beneficially owns, in the aggregate 144,562,000 shares of Motorola common stock, representing approximately 6.4% of Motorola’s outstanding shares, has agreed not to solicit proxies in connection with the 2008 Annual Meeting and to vote its shares in support of all of the Board’s director nominees.

As part of the settlement agreement, all pending litigation between Motorola and Carl Icahn will be dismissed. In addition, Motorola has agreed to seek input from Mr. Icahn in connection with significant matters regarding the intended separation of the Mobile Devices business, including the search for a new CEO to head the Mobile Devices business. In addition Messrs. Hambrecht and Meister may communicate with Mr. Icahn, subject to certain confidentiality restrictions, regarding Board activities of Motorola, including with respect to the intended separation of the company into two independent businesses.

The Armani mobile phone from Samsung has more features then mentioned previously.  There is a danger alarm activated by pressing the volume control 4 times that sends text messages to pre-programmed friends and family alerting them of danger.  GPS can then be activated to locate the owner..

If the phone is stolen and the theif replaces the SIM, a secret SMS is sent to three pre-set numbers containing the new phone number of the theif.

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