I spent the day at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel for Digital Hollywood, a four-day conference jampacked with panels and discussions covering everything from digital media content and advertising, to mobile…

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Today we had our second annual Economics of Social Media conference. The jampacked event began Monday night with our first panel and mixer at Casa del Mar in Santa Monica,…

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Almost the entire ContentNext gang is in the Los Angeles hills at the Skirball Cultural Center for EconSM, an entire day’s worth of panels and speakers on the topic of…

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Two years ago at CTIA, only a few companies would even mumble the words “mobile advertising,” but now it’s a part of everyone’s vernacular. Truthfully, that makes it a lot…

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Every year at CTIA, I cruise the show floor to see the coolest things—from applications to handsets. By no means can this be a comprehensive list, after all in Las…

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One of the most controversial mobile content plays is pornography, and last week at CTIA, arguably the biggest name—Playboy (NYSE: PLA)—launched a series of mobile initiatives. Perhaps because of the…

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This week, I caught up with Tony Lewis, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless’ newly-appointed VP of Open Development, at CTIA to talk to him about what the company’s plans are for…

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Our publisher and co-editor Rafat Ali along with our mocoNews.net principal correspondent Tricia Duryee have been in Las Vegas, covering the global tech event that is CTIA Wireless. Some highlights:…

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The high-profile spectrum auction ended two weeks ago, but the really interesting information is only starting to come out now that the quiet period has ended. The FCC, which garnered…

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After months of anticipation on when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) would launch its gaming platform called N-Gage, the world’s largest handset maker did it quietly this morning when it let the…

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At the big CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas this week, I did a short video interview with Vishal Gondal, the CEO of Indiagames, the big mobile and online gaming…

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With the end of CTIA Wireless 2008 coming to a close in a couple hours, you can start to see the trends emerging in the industry. One of the ones…

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Today, AT&T (NYSE: T) hosted a press conference to catch all the reporters up to speed on the carrier’s recent initiatives, and once the faucet started to open, the news…

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At CTIA, I spoke to Jai Jaisimha, the AOL (NYSE: TWX) VP for mobile product and technology development, and the video is embedded below. He talked about AOL’s move into…

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-- 9 Squared and Zed Worldwide combine operations: 9 Squared unveiled plans to formally combine operations with mobile entertainment company Zed Worldwide, with Zed continuing to offer the products originally…

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Following Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) Arun Sarin, Yahoo’s EVP of Connected Life Marco Boerries came on stage to tell the audience about its various mobile phone products. As part of his…

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In this morning’s keynote, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin said he has the ability to see trends worldwide in the mobile industry because Vodafone covers 30 countries and 250…

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It’s a trickle, but it’s a start. Since announcing at Mobile World Congress in February that it too would follow in Nokia’s footsteps by making the mobile web and content…

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Announcements made today at CTIA showed that navigation services are an increasingly important offering on the mobile phone, and conversations with both Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T),…

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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin got some cheers at CTIA’s opening assembly today when he said the commission should reject a petition by Skype to open wireless networks to any device.…

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Today, at CTIA Nokia (NYSE: NOK) rented a huge crane to lift reporters into the air to demonstrate that its first WiMax tablet—the Nokia N810 Wi Edition—can make the Internet…

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I’m not in Vegas, but caught this via webcast… Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) used its presentation at CTIA to tout a business bigger than just cellular, with things like NFC payments,…

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-- Guitar Hero III Mobile will rock your BlackBerrry: Hands-On Mobile, Inc. has partnered with Activision (NSDQ: ATVI), Inc. to bring Research in Motion’s (NSDQ: RIMM) (RIM) Guitar Hero III…

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At CTIA in Las Vegas, I briefly spoke to Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) on his company’s mobile content efforts and working, on working with carriers, the Apple…

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The second-to-last keynote of the day was by Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Robbie Bach, who addressed the hundreds in the audience with the message that you can’t just think about Microsoft…

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