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Mobile Content Bits: EA Mobile; Mobile Ads; Nokia Geotagging; Android Flickr App; iPhone In Russia - 1 Comment
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…

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Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent.org, paidContent:UK And contentSutra - 0 Comments
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…

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Weekend Video: EconMusic Speaker Billy Bragg: The Great Leap Forwards - 0 Comments
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…

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Connect2Media Buys Israeli-based RayFusion - 0 Comments
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…

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Spectrum Bridge Raises $2 Million To Create Secondary Market For Spectrum - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Porting Firm Tira Wireless Closes Down - 0 Comments
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…

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Billing Revolution Comes Out Of Stealth To Replace Carriers As A Mobile Billing Platform - 0 Comments
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…

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Industry Moves: NBCU Mobile Director Gammon Leaving For Fox - 0 Comments
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…

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Nokia Q3 Market Share To Fall After Maintaining Prices, Product Delay - 0 Comments
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.…

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3 UK Abandons Multimedia Ambition, Fancies iPhone Carriage - 0 Comments
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…

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Samsung Looking At Buying Digital Memory Company SanDisk - 0 Comments
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…

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Interview: MocoSpace CEO Justin Siegel: “We’ll Generate Millions Of Dollars In Ad Revenue This Year” - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Voice Startup iSkoot Buys IM Client Social.im - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Bits: Flash-Java SDK; PlayPhone’s TV Channel; Business App Market; HipCricket; Qik - 0 Comments
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…

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Lightsaber App Coming To App Store—Again; Is Apple’s Vetting Process Full Of Holes? - 4 Comments
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:…

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Mobile Web Usage Up 29 Percent; Carrier-Driven Traffic Continues To Decline: Report - 1 Comment
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…

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Whrrl Partners WIth HBO’s Entourage So People Can Track The Characters In Real Life - 0 Comments
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…

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Russia’s EZTalk Gets $4 Million Funding For Callback App - 0 Comments
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…

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iPhone Sales In Eastern Europe: Not So Good - 7 Comments
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…

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Warner Does Soccer-Branded Mobile Music With Brazil’s Corinthians - 0 Comments
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…

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Roaming Data Price Cap Plan Debated By European Politicians - 0 Comments
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…

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New Batch: Registration For Our Sept. 9 MocoMixer During CTIA Week - 2 Comments
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…

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3G Adoption In The U.S. Exceeds Western Europe: Report - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Marketing Company Vibes Media Raises $15 Million In First Round - 0 Comments
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…

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National Geographic Launches Mobile Division; Into Mobile Gaming As Well - 0 Comments
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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