O2 allows free mobile SMS alerts for Twitter users

O2 has announced that it will be allowing Twitter users to receive alerts via SMS for free from August. It’s not the first UK operator to do this - by March of this year, Vodafone had put a similar into place, cancelled it, and then re-instated it. However, O2 does claim to be the only mobile operator in the UK that also gives free SMS alerts for Facebook and Bebo

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Skyfire seals another mobile deal, with cellity

Mobile browser Skyfire has announced a “cooperation” with mobile communications hub cellity. The deal means that users of each service will have easy access to the other - a link to cellity will appear in Skyfires bookmarks, and cellity will include a direct download link for the mobile browser. Coming so soon after Skyfires similar [...]

Mobile email provider Momail launches Twitter service

Momail launched Twitter support for its mobile email product today. Momail subscribers can send and recieve Tweets via email, as well as uploading pics to their Twitter streams.

Once you’ve activated your Twitter function on Momail, you can send the familiar 140 characters to twitter@momail.com - and that will post your tweet for you. To post [...]

Skyfire and MocoSpace partner to bring mobile browsing and social networking closer

Mobile web browser Skyfire today announced that it is entering a partnership with MocoSpace - one of the biggest mobile social networks around. Under the terms of the deal, MocoSpace will be placed prominently in the bookmarks section of all Skyfire users.Skyfire prides itself on delivering the “PC web to mobile phones”, and this deal [...]

Samsung and Bebo seal deal for mobile music and LIVE shows

Bebo and Samsung Mobile UK have announced a music content partnership. The deal will see Samsung placing music on the Bebo music page, as well as sponsoring a daily music show for the social network. Most interestingly, this also marks Bebos first foray into “real world” entertainment - the two companies will be hosting a [...]

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 [...]

Survey finds social networks and email are most popular mobile Web activities

Webcredible has released the results of a survey about what people use their mobile device for the most, discounting voice or text. 1,132 visitors to Webcredible between February and April this year were polled. Of the respondants, over 50% of them said that they were now using their devices for at least some mobile Web [...]

Are white-label mobile social networks from Wadja a bridge too far?

 
Wadja.com announced today that it will be providing a white-label service for brands (or anyone else, really) to create their own mobile social network. Built on Wadja’s platform, the social network would be fully branded for the client. The platform allows a variety of ways to access the network, including SMS, mobile Internet and even [...]

Buongiorno announces peoplesound - a mobile social network based on free SMS and mobile Internet

Buongiorno has announced the official launch of peoplesound, it’s new mobile social network. Known as “blinko” when it was in beta, Buongiorno claims that the new network is the “evolutionary” link from computer-centric to mobile-centric social networking.

Buongiorno took advice from users and bloggers in the creation of peoplesound, and created a mobile network that is [...]

Mobile social network GyPSii now available free on Samsung Mobile Application Store

Mobile social network GyPSii has been released for free on the Samsung Mobile Applications Store. The location-based service, from developer GeoSentric, is now downloadable onto any Samsung device.
Launched in January 2009, the Samsung Mobile Applications Store provides third party developers with the APIs to release their apps for all Samsung devices.
GyPSii is location-based social network, [...]

Number of people using the mobile internet for news has doubled since last year

Digital analytics company comScore today announced that the number of people accessing news and info on the mobile Internet more than doubled from 2008 to 2009. In January 09 63.2 million people accessed news and info on their mobile devices, and 35% of those (22.4 million users) did so daily.

Other stats:
In January 2009, 22.3 million [...]

itsmy.com survey shows users want mobile social networks to link to operator portals

Mobile social network Itsmy.com released results from a recent survey at the Mobile Social Networking Forum. Targeting 18-34 year olds, the survey gathered info on how these age group used the mobile web, and what they wanted from it. One of the most interesting results was that over 75% of users would like operator and [...]

Mobile Social Networking Forum: Movidia mobile multimedia chip

David Moloney, CTO of Irish company Movidia, gave us this video showcase for it’s multimedia mobile chip at the Mobile Social Networking Forum in London this week. We covered this product when it was launched in January, but Movidia has a much smoother campaign put together now. The processor allows full on-device video editing. It’s [...]

1 in 5 people rate mobile social networks as “poor”, says Colibria

Messaging and social networking company Colibria has revealed research results about what mobile users want from social networking. 2,000 online respondents were surveyed in the UK. 43% of users only describe their experience as average, with a further 20% rating access as poor or very poor.
Other points of interest:
Almost 40% of 18-45 year olds said [...]

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