Articles tagged with: Facebook and Ovi

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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Social Networking Usurping Mobile Messaging as Communications Tool

Openwave Systems has published a report highlighting key mobile internet usage trends in North America, based on findings derived from its Mobile Analytics product. Strong themes that Mobile Analytics uncovered included upticks in social networking site usage suggestive of a new preferred method of communication with the potential to unseat traditional forms of messaging such as email for a particular segment of subscribers; an analysis of mobile advertising click-through rates (CTR) that showed clear advantages of targeted promotions; and the growing trend in accessing mobile classifieds via the mobile device.  more

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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

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