Category Archives: Social Networking
Nokia’s latest WP8 handset – Lumia 925 gets cautious welcome
925 first with Amber software to differentiate the Nokia’s WP8 line
Following last week’s [May 10th 2013] of the Nokia Lumia 928 exclusive for Verizon Wireless in the USA, Nokia has introduced its international model – the Lumia 925. Verizon’s co-owner, Vodafone, interestingly offers an exclusive 32 GB version for its subscribers. GoMo News highlights the introduction of a software release cycle from Nokia. The first of these, Amber, ships with the 925. The releases are about new functionality, not developer APIs. Rather than going heavy on the bundled software, Nokia’s ads will focus on the smartphone’s camera. Continue reading
GoMo to list more mobile social networking sites
Rating: Seem very popular with our Indian readers
Here at GoMo News Towers we are always striving to provide our readers with what they want. One opportunity we’ve spotted is to provide an updated list of those mobile social networking sites which cater in particular for those living in India and Asia Pacific. So far, we had quite a few suggestions for additions to our listings page here. We’ve marked Indian orientated sites with an ‘IN’ abbreviation. The list is below. Continue reading
Red Bull invigorates its F1 branding with neat Spy app
Rating: Finally an app that puts F1 race meets in your diary
Whilst Vodafone has just announced its decision to pull its logo off the McLaren F1 racing cars next year [2014], Red Bull has re-invigorated its F1 branding with a neat little app. Called F1 Spy, the app claims to give deep insights into the glamorous world of F1 racing by reporting on “the real world of F1, not shown on the cameras.” Then, of course, Red Bull is behind not just one F1 race team but two of them. [Toro Rosso as well as Red Bull Racing]. Even though it is free, this app has a facility which GoMobile News has long searched for – the ability to insert the F1 racing meets into your smartphone calendar. It also runs on both iOS and Android. Continue reading
Guest Post: Social is a business weapon – it’s about time Telcos got serious
by Bruno Teuber, a senior vp with Lithium
Now that the dust has settled after MWC 2013, it’s apparent that one of the main takeaways is the fact that the intersection between mobile and social is becoming more amplified than ever before. Telecom companies (Telcos) are beginning to realise how important it is to implement a [...]
ex-eBay & StubHub man Shawn Kernes joins BuzzMob
Rating: Helping to develop BuzzMob’s location-based mobile social network for events
As something of a coup, BuzzMob, which was only founded back in 2011 in Irvine, California, USA has hired a new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The company has managed to entice an industry Shawn Kernes with over 15 years of technology and development experience away from eBay. Kernes served as eBay’s senior director of product development, where he led implementation and support initiatives for the company’s international technology solutions programme. He is, perhaps, best known for his role as the founding CTO at StubHub, an online marketplace for sports, concerts and theatre events tickets that was acquired by eBay in 2007. Continue reading
BYOD will continue into 2013 says SpamTitan
Rating: Social media is the most dangerous for phishing attacks
As we approach the New Year, Infosecurity Europe has been sending us the views from exhibitors on what they expect to see in 2013. We picked one of the most relevant to the mobile sector from Ronan Kavanagh, CEO of SpamTitan he predicts that social media risk and subsequent web and network security issues will continue to be a serious concern for businesses in 2013. Perhaps most controversially, Kavanagh expects the ) trend towards ‘Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) will continue into 2013.He also forecasts that Social media will be the platform of choice for phishing attacks in 2013. Continue reading
Guest Post: How start-ups can benefit from content marketing
by Brian Lakeman an author with Activ8me, Australia
Over the last few years ‘permission marketing’ – more specifically content marketing, has swept through marketing offices. The days of interruption marketing; overt sales tactics; and advertising sales and special offers are going the way of landlines. The nature of the digital domain is altering the dynamic between companies and their customers and clientele. People are now demanding collateral product value from their favoured brands. For the moment, marketers are feverishly adopting content marketing as the most widely accepted and successful permission marketing tactic. Continue reading
Guest Post: Getting the best connexions from LinkedIn
by Maria Elena Duron, chief engagement officer with Buzz2bucks
B2B marketers are constantly on the lookout for different ways to improve and enhance their social media presence, and one of the best places to improve it is through LinkedIn. Several B2B companies have already seen success through the help of this social networking site by opening company pages as well as running industry groups. LinkedIn is well known for being a very powerful place for businesses everywhere, as it allows business folk around the world to connect with each other in a professional manner. Meeting various business folk from all parts of the world who are in the same line of business as you used to be simply impossible, but with the help of LinkedIn, one is able to meet all the relevant people he or she needs. Continue reading
Text based publishing flourishes on Wattpad
Rating: Network could prove powerful host for mobile ads
Harper Collins UK has announced the first book in the ‘Dark Heroine’ vampire series by Wattpad favourite – Abigail Gibbs. She has enjoyed 17,000,000 reads and 18,000 fans on Wattpad which is a mobile-first network for collaborative storytelling. Serving over ten million readers worldwide (with one million in the UK) Wattpad has become a social network to rival better-known social networking sites like Pinterest. Wattpad’s six million user-generated stories span every genre including mystery, romance, sci-fi, poetry and fan fiction. The content can be consumed on featurephones as well as smartphones and tablets. hence, 70 per cent of Wattpad usage is coming from mobile. Continue reading
Kirusa reaches voice SMS milestone with 1bn calls
Rating: Developing nations really love this stuff
In Europe and North America, it’s very easy to forget than millions of people around the world can barely read or write. Which makes text messaging kind of difficult, of course. The obvious solution is ‘voice SMS’ where basically you send a message telling some-one that you’ve left them a short voice message. A number of suppliers can offer voice SMS including Bubble Motion. However, rival company, Kirusa, has just reached a significant milestone which should enable it to correctly claim to be the world’s leading developer of mobile social media and value-added services (VAS). Kirusa’s voice SMS and mobile social media applications are now deployed by over 30 carriers across 20 countries. The company has just announced that in July [2012] it processed over one billion calls in a month. Continue reading
Guest Post: How did Instagram affect Photography in General?
by Celina Conner, freelance writer & photography fan
Instagram has been the craze on Facebook for months now because it gives awesome effects to photos taken through a cameraphone. In this article, I’ll tackle the effect of Instagram on photography in general. Is it a threat to the photography society? Before going further we need to know what Instagram is. ‘Instagram’ is a free application for your smartphones. It allows you to apply a digital filter to your photos before uploading it straight to your social network accounts. Continue reading
Samsung ahead in the Olympics sponsorship stakes says Precise
Rating: Galaxy tablets & smartphones sneak into Opening ceremony
Here’s a new slant on the London Olympic Games 2012 theme – Who is winning the sponsorship race? To answer this, Precise – the business information group, has been conducting social media research into sponsor performance at major sporting events over the Summer of 2012. The good news for world leading handset producer, Samsung, is currently winning the latest race – based on a combination of share of voice and favourability. However, this was far from being a forgone conclusion. Continue reading
GoMobile News resolves Eskimi deleted user puzzle
Rating: Fastest growing social network always has naughty boys
Here at GoMobile Towers, we’d been puzzled by the increasing number of users complaining to us that they had been thrown off the Eskimi mobile social network operated by activesec. See our original story here. However, Andrius Baranauskas from Eskimi support denies that those offending users have “no idea” why they have been removed from the network. He tells GoMobile News that upon login, banned users are provided with an explanation about breaking the terms of service. Plus usage terms are clearly displayed and indicated in places where they are most often broken. The only of criticisms which Mr Baranauskas agrees with is the lack of a central repository for all the terms which a user might break. Continue reading
Open letter to activesec: Why are you cutting so many people off Eskimi
Rating: They’ve obviously transgressed the unwritten law
This is very definitely shades of Dinsdale Piranhafrom the Monty Python sketch where users have “transgressed the unwritten law.” GoMobile News has been inundated by readers who have been on have had their accounts on its Eskimi http://m.eskimi.com/ social network cut off without any clear reason. The common theme is that these readers (and there have been at least 30 of them) all say that they have been suddenly cut off and have no idea why Continue reading
Orange brand scores well @ European footie
Rating: Precise finds its app proved popular
The efficacy of jumping onto the social media bandwagon can be measured as Precise‘s Brand Insights team is doing by listening to the voice of consumers as expressed on social media. The objective is to help businesses/brands make better, more informed decisions. Precise’s recent research has been around how brands can tap into the power of sport sponsorship. It has discovered that network operator, Orange experienced the third highest number of mentions in relation to UEFA Euro 2012 during the group stage. Use of its UEFA Euro 2012 app generated many of these mentions, indicating the app was popular. However, the app did not drive as much in the way of user-generated opinions, Precise says. Continue reading
