-- NTT DoCoMo: NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is making a bunch of changes to its executive team. Most importantly, Ryuji Yamada will be promoted to President and CEO from Senior…

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The Knight Foundation is awarding $5.5 million for a “Freedom Fone” and other projects as part of the second annual Knight News Challenge. Sixteen digital experiments intended to transform community…

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-- Knight Foundation awards digital community news projects: The Knight Foundation is awarding $5.5 million to 16 different projects which won a content for transforming community news through digital technology,…

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A week ago there was the rumor that British broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) could be fined a record $7.8 million (4 million pounds) for its part in the premium phone…

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Associated Press has launched its mobile site, foreshadowed a couple of weeks ago. The site is available at www.apnews.com on a handset, or via iPhone web application pages at http://www.iphone.com/webapps…

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Openwave Systems, the Redwood City, Calif. company that helps manage and monetize the mobile Internet, released earnings for the third quarter ended March 31, saying that while revenues fell in…

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Marchex, an online advertising company, plans to announce today that it is entering the mobile market via its subsidiary VoiceStar, which it acquired for about $20 million last August. As…

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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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Hearst Magazines is rolling out a number of text-messaging services to its magazine readers after their success in CosmoGIRL, where the services have been available since 2006. The titles which…

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-- The Money Channel has launched MoneyChannel Mobile, which will offer business, stock market and economic news, as well as stock quotes and corporate announcements. Users will also have the…

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Last week we mentioned that Men’s Health magazine is using camera phone promotions for its print ads, and now Rolling Stone is also moving into it, using technology from SnapTell.…

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Verve Wireless is expected to announce tomorrow that it is providing the technology for the AP’s recently announced Mobile News Network that will be the first product released by AP’s…

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Another effort to meld the magazine world with the online/mobile, this time through a lowly camera phone instead of dedicated contraptions like the failed Cuecat. Men’s Health, part of Rodale,…

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Bellevue, Wash.-based UIEvolution, which has created a software platform that can run on mobile phones, TV set-top boxes and in cars, said it will be revamping the way people shop…

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-- 3UK/Fun Text: 3 UK is adding Fun Text - a cutesy picture messaging service - to its Planet 3 mobile web portal. Cambridge-based Fun Text - which routes basic…

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The Associated Press is testing a mobile initiative to deliver national and local news to smartphones as part of a push to find new digital outlets for the news. The…

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CBS (NYSE: CBS) News has quietly launched a citizen journalism site, where users can upload photos and videos directly from their mobile phone, for everyone to see. Last week the…

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Now that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has made the plunge and has reorganized its business to focus on mobile content through its Ovi portal, it appears others are working up the…

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HipCricket, a Kirkland, Wash. company that helps radio stations conduct marketing campaigns using text messages, said it has just signed up a group of Hispanic-focused radio and TV stations to…

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-- SEGA Mobile: The company announced a portfolio of new games today that includes both original titles and licensed brands. Some of the titles include: Sonic at the Olympic Games;…

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Here’s a new take on an old business—create an iPhone-like experience for landlines, and maybe you’ll keep a few customers. Embarq, Sprint’s (NYSE: S) old landline company, is unveiling today…

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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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Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) is aligning its mobile and platform operations with new CEO Shantanu Narayen moving the company’s mobile and devices division to become part of its larger “experience…

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Paramount Pictures said this year it will be expanding its interactive department to publish video games, focusing in particular on casual, handheld and mobile games, according to a report in…

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Entertainment gossip site TMZ is expanding into the mobile space with an ad-supported, cross-carrier, standalone WAP site (screenshot shown in thumbnail, right), which will offer a heavy concentration of video…

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