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Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 05 Sep 2008 01:28 PM PST
-- EA Mobile releases ‘Spore Origins’ for iPhone: EA Mobile released “Spore Origins,” its latest game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, today along with news that nine more titles…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 05 Sep 2008 12:57 PM PST
Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org, paidContent:UK And contentSutra: paidContent.org: -- Interview: Tom Brettingen, Chief Revenue Officer, AP: ‘Returning $20 Million To The Industry’ -- Google’s…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 05 Sep 2008 10:07 AM PST
Did we mention that Billy Bragg is speaking at EconMusic, our London conference examining the digital music business on September 23? Billy has previously taken on MySpace for its policy…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 05 Sep 2008 10:06 AM PST
London-based Connect2Media, a publisher of mobile content, which just merged with the European operations of Hands-On, said it has acquired RayFusion, an Israeli-based mobile content distributor. Terms of the deal…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 05 Sep 2008 09:20 AM PST
Lake Mary, Fla.-based Spectrum Bridge, which is headed by former Motorola (NYSE: MOT) executives, is launching SpecEx.com, which aims to create a secondary trading market for valuable spectrum. The site…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 05 Sep 2008 08:17 AM PST
Tira Wireless, the Toronto-based mobile content porting company, has closed down, we have learned...we have been trying to contact the company for a week now, but no one has been…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 05 Sep 2008 07:00 AM PST
Seattle-based Billing Revolution is coming out of stealth today to unveil a billing platform that’s designed to cut mobile operators out of the revenue stream for both digital and physical…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 05 Sep 2008 06:37 AM PST
NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) UK-based EMEA mobile director Amelia Gammon is leaving to join Fox. Gammon joined the broadcaster’s new mobile unit in 2006 following a stint as digital marketing…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 05 Sep 2008 05:43 AM PST
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) expects its share of the handset market to be lower in Q3 than Q2 - a change from its July 17 forecast, when it projected unchanged share.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 05 Sep 2008 04:00 AM PST
3 UK wants to pick up the iPhone if O2’s exclusive UK deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) comes to an end, says CEO Kevin Russell (via Guardian.co.uk). With Apple now…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 04 Sep 2008 11:15 PM PST
Samsung Electronics is considering buying U.S. PC and mobile memory card maker SanDisk, according to a Korean online report (*Google* translation of the story here), and then later confirmed by…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 04 Sep 2008 08:35 PM PST
In 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will be part of a mobile social network, and that they will generate $410 million from subscriptions alone, which doesn’t include revenues from…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 04 Sep 2008 08:11 PM PST
Mobile voice and chat startup iSkoot has made a small acquisition: it has bought social IM aggregator client Social.im, according to Techcrunch. iSkoot was the first company to work with…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 04 Sep 2008 02:56 PM PST
-- *Sony* *Ericsson* releases SDK for Flash-Java technology: Four months ago, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) Developer World announced Project Capuchin, which allows developers to use features from both…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 04 Sep 2008 02:29 PM PST
Remember the basic lightsaber iPhone App that captured the hearts of Star Wars fans? It was free, but it was also a blatant case of copyright infringement and Apple (NSDQ:…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 04 Sep 2008 11:17 AM PST
Mobile web usage grew 29.4 percent from Q1 to Q2, a period that saw a spike in searches for Barack Obama that was second only to “movies/movie listings,” according to…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 04 Sep 2008 09:41 AM PST
One problem when starting a new social-networking-like service is getting users to sign-up. A promotion always helps, and that’s what Pelago is betting on through a partnership between its Whrrl…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 04 Sep 2008 08:21 AM PST
Russian mobile call-back service EZtalk has received 100 million rubles ($4 million) of investment from VTB Venture Fund. Owned by Simbiotel, the service saves money on international mobile calls and…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 04 Sep 2008 07:26 AM PST
The 3G edition may have accelerated iPhone sales worldwide, but the picture in eastern Europe is less rosy. Dow Jones reports that T-Mobile and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) in the Czech…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 04 Sep 2008 06:25 AM PST
Warner Music International (WMI) has signed a deal with Brazilian soccer team Corinthians to develop and distribute music and entertainment content to the team’s fans via mobile and online. From…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 04 Sep 2008 04:00 AM PST
Following European telecom commissioner Viviane Reding’s call last week to reduce and cap roaming data and SMS charges (see our post), news orgs claims to have seen specific prices in…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 04 Sep 2008 03:30 AM PST
You knew this was coming...we held back a batch of tickets for our CTIA Mocomixer on Sept 9th...we’re opening it this morning. Our mixer will take place at San Francisco’s…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 04 Sep 2008 02:00 AM PST
When it comes to mobile, the perception is that the U.S. is always behind Europe, but a new report being released today says that when it pertains to the adoption…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 04 Sep 2008 02:00 AM PST
Vibes Media, a Chicago-based mobile marketing company, plans to announce today that it has raised $15 million from Fidelity Ventures in its first round of capital. Vibes will use the…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 03 Sep 2008 10:00 PM PST
National Geographic is launching a new mobile division to further develop its mobile content and games business. In an announcement expected on Thursday, the company will appoint Aaron Kohn, who…
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