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Articles tagged with: Facebook
Young, Wealthy - and Going Wireless
Even in a downturn, the wealthy are eagerly adopting the latest in mobile device functionality on smart phones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, according to the aptly named, Luxury Institute. more
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Which country experienced the greatest growth in mobile Web usage last year?
Opera, which provides a Java based mobile browser has reported that in January 2009, consumer Opera Mini use jumped 12.1% over the previous month to 20 million unique users. Monthly page views increased even more, jumping 18% to 7.6 billion Web pages in the same time period. Data transfers were also up 18% from December 2008 as Opera Mini generated more than 122 million MB of data for operators worldwide. more
Related Tags: edge, opera, opera-mini, java, emirates, jordan
Twitter Support for 2-Way SMS Returns to Canada
Bell Canada has announced that Bell Mobility will be the first wireless carrier to resume Canadians full SMS support for interacting with the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Last November, Twitter stopped supporting 2-way SMS traffic, citing the high costs of sending the replies back to the handsets. more
Related Tags: sms, social-networking, twitter, andrew, bell-mobility, bell, Canada
Nokia in Talks with Facebook Over Handset Integration
Internet social networking website, facebook is reported to be in talks with a number of mobile phone manufacturers to more tightly embed access to its services within the phone menus. The Wall Street Journal also noted that facebook is in close talks at the moment with Nokia on this topic. more
Related Tags: nokia, social-networking, wall-street-journal, ovi, presence
T-Mobile Advert Spoof Closes Train Station
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Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at Ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as facebookÃ's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. facebookÃ's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, sms, social-networking, twitter, ovum, ofta, yahoo, compete, text-messages
Hutchison Shows off First In-House Developed Mobile Phone
Hutchison Whampoa has shown off the first of its new in-house designed mobile phones, which will be sold under the INQ brandname. The INQ¹ (yes, with a tiny 1) has been designed to offer a tight integration with the facebook social networking website, and will be available exclusively from the Hutchison 3G mobile networks. more
Related Tags: skype, wind, hutchison-3g, rcom, mobile-internet, 3, hutchison, hutchison-whampoa, windows
T-Mobile Ranks Top in Mobile Broadband Survey
T-MobileÃ's UK 3G/HSPA network has been judged the best in the UK in independent tests carried out by test house, P3 Solutions over the last quarter. The tests benchmark T-Mobile against its competitors by measuring customer experiences that matter most to users during peak usage hours across 16 cities throughout the UK. When measured against its competitors, T-Mobile was found on aggregate to be fastest for internet upload and download speeds as well as for web browsing and for sending and receiving emails. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, social-networking, hspa, hsupa, t-mobile-uk, mobile-broadband, youtube, benchmarking, p3-solutions, testing, UK
Hutchison Whampoa Launches Handset Subsidiary
Hutchison Whampoa has launched its own mobile phone subsidiary, INQ Mobile to develop phones for its 3G networks worldwide. The company aims to launch a range of low to mid-priced handsets based largely on free operating systems, likely to be either Linux or the Google backed Android OS - and will be based on Qualcomm chips. more
Related Tags: android, google, social-networking, skype, qualcomm, voip, seven, hutchison, inq-mobile, linux
Telefonica Offers Mobile Facebook Service
Telefónica has inked a gloabal agreement with internet social networking site, facebook to integrate access to facebookÃ's mobile service and applications from all of TelefónicaÃ's mobile portals. This agreement will expand the current relationship between the companies in the UK into a worldwide agreement. more
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