Symbian opens mobile social networking development to app makers

Symbian has kicked off an interesting option for mobile app developers today. “Open” mobile operating systems seem to revolve around a series of tools that allow developers to better optimise their apps for the OS. But Symbian has opened up its own internal development process - allowing developers to get involved in the process before it’s actually ready for launch.

match2blue and Apama launch real-time search and social networking

London, UK, 9th November 2009 – Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, has announced that
enterprise platform enabler for mobile solutions, match2blue (www.match2blue.com ), has selected the Progress® Apama® Business Event Processing (BEP) platform to empower its social
networking platform with real-time information on location, ideas, news [...]

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SMS GupShup Takes Facebook Users in India Mobile

Indian Facebook users can now connect and share via SMS
Mumbai / Delhi 28 July 09: SMS GupShup, India’s largest social messaging platform today announced that it is working with Facebook, the world’s largest social network, to enable Indian Facebook users to go mobile. SMS GupShup’s messaging platform will enable Indian users to take Facebook with [...]

SMS GupShup Indian mobile social networking boasts 20 million users

GoMo News scooped coverage of GupShup calling it Vinadoo Hot here. But a lot has changed since then. The Indian based mobile social networking service launched in April 2007 now boasts 20 million users in 900,000 communities.

@Hit Barcelona Head of Mobile Bebo on why we don’t need mobile operators

Sean Kane Head of Mobile from bebo @Hit Barcelona Open API panel.

I loved Sean Kane’s edgy almost arrogant stance at Hit Barcelona.

3 UK is happy with how mobile social networking INQ has performed

INQ is a branch of the 3 network that is devoted to creating devices specifically for mobile social networking. Last year it released the INQ1, a Facebook oriented device, and an upcoming Twitter phone was announced very recently. Following up the Twitter news, 3 UK has announced that the first INQ phone has performed beyond [...]

FC Barcelona + Man Utd + Champions League = social networking gold

With FC Barcelona poised to take the “triple win” for the first time since ‘99, CCRTV Interactiva has launched a social network to cash in on some of the jubilation of the fans. Using white-label mobile and on-line platform ScrOOn, CCRTV is allowing fans to share images and videos of their celebrations at the success [...]

Two location-based mobile social networking bits: Locle and The Grid

Both South Africa and Ireland have home grown news in location-based mobile social networking today. Irish company Locle is working on a service that will work on any mobile device, and South African Vodacom is introducing a location-based advertising option for it’s MoSo, The Grid.

What is location-based mobile social networking?
Very simply, an LBS mobile social [...]

Scoreloop new mobile social gaming with open SDK

Scoreloophas announced is new mobile social gaming platform. Scoreloop is for game developers. It is a platform that will allow developers to improve the player experience by adding and including new features to the deck.

What?
The SDK is free. The benefits are that when Scoreloop is integrated a new space is created enabling real gamers to [...]

Is Microsoft making a Halo mobile game?

Microsoft has posted an ad for a job opening working on it’s massively successful Halo games franchise. The ad has caused widespread speculation that there might be a Halo mobile gaming feature on it’s way.

The job posting shows that Microsoft is planning an integrated console, web and mobile experience for Halo. High on the list [...]

Mobile social networks Brightkite and Limbo merge to form stronger service

Two mobile social networks announced that they are combining forces today. Limbo and Brightkite will be merging into a larger service, keeping the Brightkite name. Both are location-based MoSo’s, with a focus on getting users to actually meet up in the real world. Both are also quite large services, and they claim that the new [...]

New NetPhoto app for photo-sharing and social networking - what are photo-sharers getting wrong?

Barros Technologies has launched an iPhone photo app that lets users “edit”, tag and share pictures on social networks, including Facebook, MySpace, Picasa and Flickr. When they say “edit”, they mean adding text boxes, clip-art and comments. But do you honestly want more than that?
All right, NetPhoto lets iPhone users choose from 200 “fun” clip-arts [...]

Bebo’s Open Mobile Messaging goes live on Vodafone New Zealand

We covered the announcement from Bebo and Telecom New Zealand last month about their upcoming partnership, through the Bebo Open Mobile program. Today Vodafone NZ has announced that it too is joinging the program, and has launched the Bebo Open Mobile Messaging service it’s New Zealand customers
What does Open Mobile Messaging do?

The service allows Vodafone [...]

Android mobile social networking app BuddyMob coming to iPhone and Symbian

BuddyMob is a free mobile application from Kiboo for Android handsets. It provides access to a variety of social networks (Twitter, MSN, Gtalk and AIM) from a mobile device, with one log-in. Kiboo has announced a whole slew of updates to be made to the app, after feedback from BuddyMob users - most importantly that [...]

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