Category: Mobile Social Networking

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Technologies: MMS, Mobile Applications, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Security, Mobile Social Networking, Mobile Spam, Operator Services, Smartphones, SMS
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  1. Mobile Social Networks Change the Game for Instant Messaging and SMS

    Explore Article Mobile Messaging 2.0 (Aug 17 2010) Mobile Social Networking

    Mobile Social Networks Change the Game for Instant Messaging and SMS In December 2009 global consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter according to The Nielsen Company. That is an 82 percent increase from the same time the prior year, when users were spending just over three hours tweeting, updating Facebook statuses and more. It’s no secret that social networks have experienced a snowball effect in popularity. So you may be asking why I am highlighting that fact and more specifically, why I would want to talk about it on a mobile messaging blog. Put simply, that stark rise in activity on ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   SMS   Facebook

  2. Twitter Warms to SMS Tweets With Fast Follow

    Explore Article eweek.com (Aug 11 2010) Mobile Social Networking

    Twitter August 10 added a Fast Follow feature that will let anyone in the U.S. get tweets on their phone. Twitter wants to eliminate the barriers to entry to better compete with Facebook. - Twitter, whose tweeting roots lie in SMS messaging from mobile phones, August 10 said it added a Fast Follow feature that will let anyone in the U.S. get tweets on their phone, even if they haven't signed up for Twitter. Previously, mobile phone users had to be Twitter members to see tweets fr...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Facebook

  3. AT&T Launches Mobile Social Network App

    Explore Article MediaPost (Jul 29 2009) Mobile Social Networking

    In another sign that the cell phone is becoming the top social networking tool, AT&T has launched Social Net, a free mobile social networking application that combines access to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter and allows users to customize news feeds within a single application.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   AT&T   Twitter

  4. Survey Says Most iPhone Owners Download 10+ Apps

    Explore Article textually.org (Sep 11 2009) Mobile Applications , Mobile Social Networking , Smartphones

    At the end of June the company reported a record 5.2 million iPhones sold in its third quarter - a 600% increase over the same time frame a year earlier. Steve Jobs was proud to announce that more than 1.5 billion applications had been downloaded from the App Store. Unsurprisingly, according to a new survey released by Compete, 72% of iPhone owners have downloaded 10 or more applications to their devices. Meanwhile, in comparison only 27% of Blackberry owners have downloaded 5 or more applications. ... The top free application in the App Store's social networking category is Facebook and ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Twitter   Steve Jobs

  5. No Texting Day experiment at Riverdale Country School

    Explore Article textually.org (Apr 28 2010) Mobile Social Networking , SMS

    Riverdale Country School, an elite private school in the Bronx, asked middle-schoolers to voluntarily forsake instant messaging, chat, texts, and Facebook for two days, to experience life unconnected, reports The New York Times. This text-free Sunday, the Riverdale students said, was unusually relaxing. They were shocked at how quickly they finished their homework, undistracted by an always-open video chat, or checking in on Facebook or responding to the hundred messages they typically get in a day. ... None looked pale and ashen; none were twitching, at least visibly.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   New York Times   Facebook

  6. GeoLocal: The Rise of Consumer Location-based Services

    Explore Article GigaOM (May 28 2010) Mobile Social Networking

    Geo-targeting and location-based services are all the rage these days, with a core group of startups already fighting for market share. But Facebook, Google and Twitter are hot on their heels. Here's a look at who offers what, and how they aim to make money.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Facebook   Google

  7. INQs new mobile devices are great - for penniless Twitter addicts

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Aug 4 2009) Mobile Social Networking , Smartphones

    INQs new mobile devices are great - for penniless Twitter addicts Two months ago, INQ announced it would be launching a Twitter-centric mobile device before Christmas. True to it's word, the company has now unveiled two different models of the low-tech, social network optimised phone - a familiar candy-bar version, and Blackberry-a-like with a full QWERTY keyboard.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Gmail   Facebook

  8. New Facebook App For Pre, Pixi Uninspires

    Explore Article mocoNews (Nov 16 2009) Mobile Social Networking , Smartphones

    New Facebook App For Pre, Pixi Uninspires Facebook has released its first official app for the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and Pixi, but as Engadget Mobile reports, users may be underwhelmed by its functionality. The app, which runs on the latest version of Palm’s webOS mobile operating system, lets people update their status, post photos and view the live stream—features that many have come to expect from any app that boasts some Facebook functionality—but not much else. Users can’t search for specific info, view events or even see their friends’ profiles, as clicking on someone’s name or photo just turns up their contact info. Facebook already launched ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Android   Blackberry

  9. Twitter Buys SMS Startup Cloudhopper to Scale Mobile Tweets

    Explore Article eweek.com (Apr 24 2010) Mobile Social Networking , SMS

    Twitter purchased startup Cloudhopper for an undisclosed sum April 23. Cloudhopper provides messaging software and infrastructure that helps Twitter connect with mobile carriers all over the world with little latency and downtime. Cloudhopper's technology powers some of the largest and most successful mobile messaging (SMS and MMS) campaigns in North America, Europe, and Africa. The purchase is a reminder that Twitter was originally conceived by co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey as a mobile first service. - Twitter, which has struggled with scale as its user base exploded to hit 105 million users, purchased startup Cloudhopper for an ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Twitter   Bharti Airtel

  10. Twitter is taking care of its own mobile business

    Explore Article gomonews.com (Apr 26 2010) Mobile Social Networking , SMS

    Twitter is taking care of its own mobile business The 140 character limit of tweets is no accident. Since it replicates the size of text messages, rather than being a limitation it has allowed Twitter usage to explode through one of the most-used channels in the world: SMS. And with the announcement last Friday that Twitter has bought its very own SMS company, you can expect SMS-based tweets to become even smoother.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   Twitter   SMS

  11. Twitter, Peek Launch Co-Branded Mobile Messaging Device

    Explore Article mocoNews (Nov 3 2009) Mobile Social Networking , Smartphones

    Twitter, Peek Launch Co-Branded Mobile Messaging Device Twitter has partnered with Peek, a startup that makes low-cost mobile messaging devices, to launch TwitterPeek, a handset designed—essentially—for Twitterholics. The 2.7 inch x 4 inch, color screen device doesn’t require WiFi, it runs on a high-speed wireless data network; users can send and receive unlimited tweets with the full QWERTY keyboard. TwitterPeek retails at Amazon for $99 with a $7.95 monthly fee, or $199 for what Peek is calling “lifetime” service. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed, so it’s not clear whether Twitter is getting a portion of the up-front costs, the monthly access fee, or both. ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Kevin Thau   SEC

  12. Facebook Claims 65 Million Mobile Users

    Explore Article InformationWeek (Sep 4 2009) Mobile Applications , Mobile Social Networking , Smartphones , Americas

    Most of the social networking site's growth comes from markets where mobile phones may be the primary computing devices.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   InformationWeek   Nokia

  13. Twitter Jumps On Cloudhopper

    Explore Article 160Characters Association (Apr 27 2010) Mobile Social Networking , SMS

    SMS technology company Cloudhopper based in Seattle has been bought by Twitter for an undisclosed sum.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Technology   Twitter

  14. Confirmed: O2 Restores Twitter UK SMS Service

    Explore Article mocoNews (Jul 13 2009) Mobile Social Networking , SMS , EMEA

    Confirmed: O2 Restores Twitter UK SMS Service On March 2, we were first to report that O2 was the first UK network to strike a deal to reinstate free inbound SMS service in the country. Now O2 is confirming the news.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Vodafone   Kevin Thau

  15. Phone calling coming to Twitter

    Explore Article textually.org (Sep 17 2009) Mobile Social Networking

    A beta service expected to launch Thursday will allow Twitter users to make voice calls to each other without needing to know someone's phone number. A new third-party offering from Jajah known as Jajah@call is expected to go into beta Thursday morning that will allow Twitter users to initiate a two-way voice chat with other users. [via Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter

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