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Mobile social network tackles SMS spam in India
India has some pretty severe problems with SMS spam – so bad that an actual Government minister has complained in Parliament about being woken up in the middle of the night by spam texts. Today one of the best known mobile social networks in India, the text-based SMS GupShup, has announced a new application for operators and mobile marketers that could help curb the tide. Continue reading
Mobile social networking: Myriad-Telefónica deal finally sees light of day
Almost one year ago exactly, GoMo News reported on the highly lucrative deal that Myriad Group AG signed with vast global operator group Telefónica. The 5-year partnership would see Myriad providing embedded social networking software to Telefónica‘s Latin American subscribers; which number over 140 million. Continue reading
Gamers are the most social mobile users
American mobile social network and entertainment destination MocoSpace has released an interesting little stat-burst today. The two major uses that MocoSpace is put to are social networking and social gaming – and it decided to see who the most “social” users were. Continue reading
Posted in Games, Social Networking, mobile news
Tagged mobile, Mobile Gaming, mobile social network, mocospace, social gaming, social network
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Mobile social networks: MocoSpace steps up for MySpace buy-out
The history of social networks is one of dizzying heights followed by desperate lows. Friendster and Bebo may still be around, but Facebook is the undeniable lord of the realm. Now MySpace, which was once claimed to get more hits than Google, is now being sold off by current owners News Corp. And America’s biggest mobile social network, MocoSpace, has declared it’s interest. Continue reading
Posted in Social Networking, mobile news
Tagged mobile, mobile social network, mocospace, myspace, social network
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Mobile social networking and location: drop a “glyph” with goGlyph
Location-based social networking developer goGlyph has released a free application for iOS users today. Also called goGlyph, it allows you to drop messages, or “glyphs”, at your location, and check what other glyphs have been left here. Continue reading
Mobile social networking from Myriad extends to Telefónica Vivo
Myriad Group AG, a global leader in mobile technology having shipped over 3.7 billion software applications on more than 2.2 billion phones, today announces a new deal to extend the existing partnership with Telefónica to provide mobile social networking services to Telefónica’s Vivo brand. The agreement reinforces Myriad’s 5-year partnership with Telefónica announced earlier this year, and increases Myriad’s addressable market from 80 million to 140 million subscribers across Latin America. Continue reading
Mobile shopping: what do the mobile faithful think about it?
Mobile shopping has been a hot topic this season. There have been a lot of products and services launched, and a lot of discussion on how to get the public more interested. But mobile marketing agency Briabe Media decided to look at it it a slightly different way: what about the people who are already very mobile-active? What are they doing? Continue reading
ChaCha chats on all major social networks through Gigya
ChaCha is probably the most successful company in its class today – a mobile “questions and answers” service powered by SMS. Today, it has announced that it’s entire base (over 22 million) can now connect to all major social networks through ChaCha. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Social Networking, mobile news
Tagged chacha, gigya, mobile, mobile social network, mobile text, SMS, social network
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GeoGroups turns anything into a location-based social network
GeoGroups is a new developer that has launched an app on the iPhone today. It’s based around the idea of “geo-social” networks – where you create a social group around anything that has a location. Continue reading
Mobile operators believe social networking will topple voice and SMS
According to results from a study released today, the majority of mobile operators believe that by 2015, social networking will have passed both voice and SMS as the most popular way to communicate over mobile. The survey was commissioned Airwide Solutions, and got responses from 31 global mobile operators. Continue reading
FourSquare meets LinkedIn: Unsocial uncloaks for iPhone and Android
A new app is launching in beta for iPhone and Android today, called Unsocial. It claims to be the kind of child you’d imagine from a marriage of FourSquare and LinkedIn: a business networking service combined with a location-based application. We take a look. Continue reading
Why is browser-based mobile social gaming from MocoSpace such good news?
Mocospace, America’s biggest mobile social network, has two great announcements wrapped up in one today. First, it has landed $3.5 million in funding from SoftBank Capital. Second, it is using that capital to expand it’s mobile browser-based social mobile gaming network.
What’s the story?
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Posted in Games, mobile browsers, mobile news
Tagged mobile, mobile game, Mobile Gaming, mobile social network, mocospace, social gaming, Softbank
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Mobile gaming goes fully cross platform with Aurora Feint
This evening’s launch of Apple’s Game Center has really lit a fire under the mobile gaming industry. In particular, social gaming company Aurora Feint seems to have gone into overdrive. Today, it has announced the launch of a new SDK called PlayTime, which will allow any games developer to make their game a true cross-platform app – allowing gamers on Android and iPhone to play with (or against) one another. And on top of that, the system will integrate fully with Game Center. Continue reading
Posted in Games, Mobile Devices, Mobile OS, Mobile applications, Social Networking, android, iphone, mobile developers, mobile news
Tagged android, Apple, aurora feint, game center, Games, gaming, iphone, mobile, mobile games, Mobile Gaming, mobile social gaming, mobile social network, openfeint, social gaming, social network
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O2 offers free social networking app to prepay mobile customers
O2 Ireland has launched a new mobile social networking application called O2 Social Link, with San Francisco-based developer iSkoot. The app acts an aggregator for the most popular social networks – and is available for free for Prepay customers who top-up regularly. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Operators, Mobile applications, Social Networking, mobile news, o2
Tagged Carrier, iskoot, mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile network, mobile social network, o2, Operator, social network
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Mobile games are feeling the pinch from Apple
The mobile gaming industry is definitely worried about Apple’s social gaming hub, Game Centre. Just yesterday, Scoreloop announced a major social gaming network deal with Taiwan operator Chunghwa Telecom… who specifically mentioned that this was to compete with Game Centre. And now we’ve got an update from Aurora Feint for it’s own social gaming network, OpenFeint – another move inspired by Apple, as Aurora Feint CEO Jason Citron says “with Game Center just around the corner… unique promotion is more important than ever.” Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Games, Social Networking, mobile news
Tagged Apple, apple game centre, aurora feint, gaming, mobile, Mobile Gaming, mobile social network, openfeint, social gaming, social network
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