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Articles tagged with: Facebook
Facebook and Twitter Access via Mobile Browser Grows by Triple-Digits
Nearly a third (30.8%) of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010, up 8.3 points from 22.5 percent one year ago, reports comScore. Access to facebook via mobile browser grew 112 percent in the past year, while Twitter experienced a 347-percent jump. more
Related Tags: twitter, mobile-internet
Sony Ericsson Censured Over "Misleading" Television Advert
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority, an industry regulator has upheld a complaint against Sony Ericsson regarding a recent advert for its Satio smartphone. The advert featurered mobile access to the facebook social networking website, which could be accessed either via a downloadable application or via the mobile web browser. more
Related Tags: asa, sony-ericsson, UK
Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members
When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant. more
Facebook usage jumps 600% to become most-visited mobile social network
facebook is now the most-visited social network on the mobile Web, according to Opera's State of the Mobile Web report. Unique users of facebook grew more than 600% during 2009, helping the site surpass VKontakte, formerly the most popular social network among Opera Mini users. Twitter saw its usage increase more than any other social network, surging more than 2800% in just one year. more
Related Tags: opera, mobile-internet, web-browser, opera-min
AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error
A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. more
Survey Finds Facebook more Popular than SMS - but SMS Used More than Facebook
A smallish survey of 300 consumers in Boston, USA by PR agency, Prompt Communications found that phone calls remain the most common method of communication, with 99% of respondents regularly using the phone to connect with friends and family. facebook (96%) is now the next most popular communication tool, followed by SMS (93%) and email (91%). more
Study: mobile microbloggers struggle to make their postings interesting
A study shows that mobile microbloggers struggle hard is to make postings interesting enough to keep audience coming back and commenting. The analysis by researchers from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Google and Elisa shows that microbloggers sometimes put in teasers to postings and highlight interesting aspects of their everyday experiences, inviting others to comment. However, perhaps due to publicity of the postings, microbloggers generally avoid revealing intimate emotions or experiences. more
Related Tags: twitter
Facebook Mobile Passes 65 Million Active Users
..one and Facebook for Nokia. Facebook has two mobile web sites: m.facebook.com, which works on any mobile browser, and x.facebook.com, which is designed specifically for touch screen phones like Android, Palm, iPhone and Nokia. more
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Nokia Shows Off Three New Mobile Phones
Nokia has shown off several new mobile phones at its annual Nokia World conference, along with plans to integrate the facebook webservice into its Ovi mobile content platform. Lifecasting with Ovi is said to be the first application to let people publish their location and status updates directly to their facebook account from the home screen of a mobile device. more
Related Tags: nokia, ovi, nokia-n900, play
Air Force used Twitter to track NY flyover fallout
As the Pentagon warns of the security risks posed by social networking sites, newly released government documents show the military also uses these Internet tools to monitor and react to coverage of high-profile events. more
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