Early this month at the DEMOfall 08 conference, Xumii launched the first social address book for mobile phones. Xumii’s social address book combines contact information, feeds and status updates from social networks, instant messaging services and mobile contacts in a single view. Xumii also offers integrated mobile messaging that allows users to maintain threaded conversations, share media [...]
AT&T announced today the launch of “My Communities”, a new downloadable application that lets users create and manage multiple social networking accounts through a single dashboard view on their mobile phone.
Online social networking is huge and growing strongly, but what happens when all those virtual friends hit the road? Increasingly, they will be able to keep in touch via mobile versions of their favorite social networks, running on their cellular phones. ABI Research forecasts that in 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will share “anytime, [...]
JuiceCaster is now available for one the most popular Blackberry devices via a free beta application for users in the United States. For a limited time, Blackberry Curve users can sign-up to receive the JuiceCaster beta at www.juicecaster.com/blackberry. The free beta application is available to users of the Blackberry Curve (8310) for AT&T, and the [...]
Nokia announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Plazes (www.plazes.com), a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. The deal was initially announced on June 23, 2008.
Nokia and Plazes today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, and share their social activities: why they are at a given location at a given time, whether in the past, present or future.
ShoZu has expanded its mobile social media service to Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter and four additional Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 communities. With these 8 new integrations, ShoZu now enables mobile users to interact with their choice of 36 social networks from a single screen on their handsets.
As the world’s subscribers reached more than 3.3 billion cellphone users now, no wonder the Internet companies move their products and services to the cellphone, including social networking services. At least 950 million will goes social with their mobile phone in 2012, said a report last month.
JuiceCaster is set to launch on T-Mobile USA. JuiceCaster enables easy, one-touch sharing of pictures and videos directly from a camera phone to more than 20 top online social-networking and blogging sites, including MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, the latest version of JuiceCaster, 6.0, now includes the ability for users to post and watch real-time [...]
