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Articles tagged with: Facebook
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
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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
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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
Free Facebook for Vodafone UK Customers
Vodafone UK says that it is to make mobile internet access to the facebook website free of charge from the end of this week for a single week. Giving customers free access to facebook is part of Vodafone UK's Free Friday series, which launched with Free Mobile Internet in May to mark the start of a flat daily rate of just 50p to browse the mobile internet, and continued with Free Music Friday in June when Vodafone became the first mobile operator in the UK to launch DRM free music. more
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Ad-funded MMS Revenues to Hit $87M by 2014
Ad-funded MMS revenues are set to take-off over the next five years with annual growth rates reaching 94%, with SMS and mobile email continuing to dominate the person-to-person (p2p) mobile messaging market, claims Juniper Research. more
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Samsung Shows Off Omnia Smartphone Family
Samsung Electronics has showcased its latest smartphones - the Omnia II (I8000), OmniaPRO series (OmniaPRO B7610, OmniaPRO B7320) as well as the OmniaLITE (B7300). The new Omnia smartphone line-up follows the success of the very first flagship 'Omnia' phone, Samsung's milestone Open OS model which was launched at CommunicAsia last year. more
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Colibria Wins Global Mobile IM Contract from Telefonica
Mobile instant messaging vendor, Colibria says that it has been selected by Telefonica International to launch mobile IM services across its Latin American operator businesses, covering over 124 million subscribers in 13 territories. Initially live with Movistar Peru, Colibria will provide a complete end-to-end 'Movistar Messenger' service with full integration with SMS. more
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SingTel Launches Unlimited Mobile Music Service
Singapore based mobile network operator, SingTel has alunched a free mobile music download service for its contract customers. The service, branded SingTel AMPed, has been developed in partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG) and offers music videos and pre-release albums in addition to conventional music downloads. more
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Nokia Shows Off Three New Phones
At the Nokia Connection event held in Singapore today, Nokia has shown off three new phones, along with making a lot of noise about favourite buzz terms such as "ecosystems", "compelling services" and "solutions". more
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