“Talking to family, sending pictures and connecting with long-lost friends is important to our customers, and we are giving them the option to do that on the go by teaming up with MySpace,” said Stephanie Ferguson, general manager Business Experiences Team, in the Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft Corp. “MySpace is a pioneer in the social networking space, and the MySpace application will be a tremendous asset to the collection of applications you can access on your Windows phone.”

Today’s news is in conjunction with the CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas from April 1-3 and the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco March 31 – April 3. MySpace and Microsoft will present a session at the Web 2.0 Expo on Silverlight on the MySpace Open Platform.

[via slashgear]

MySpace and RipCode announced today that MySpace Mobile users across the globe will now be able to enjoy MySpace video content from their video enabled mobile devices. MySpace utilizes RipCode’s On-Demand Video Transcoding technology to optimize mobile video delivery and give users an improved mobile video experience. Real time transcoding enables MySpace to easily support several different handsets even though they require different combinations of codecs, bit rates, and resolutions.

For MySpace Mobile users, 100 percent of their uploaded videos and most premium content, including branded channel such as TMZ, National Hockey League, National Geographic, The Onion, College Humor, etc., are now available on mobile devices. Because MySpace is transcoding video on-demand, there is no longer need to store the entire MySpace video library in multiple mobile formats, thus saving significant hardware, energy and storage resources.

Accessing and viewing video from mobile devices is a data intensive service. MySpace mobile users are advised to consult their mobile data plan to avoid excessive fees. MySpace mobile video quality, as with all mobile services, is dependent on individual device capabilities as well as network speed and connection.

“We established an innovative and collaborative partnership with RIM to address a key desire of consumers to have greater mobile connectivity and interaction with their friends and the global community at large,” said Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and chief executive officer of MySpace. “This record shows just how much of a force in the mobile consumer space RIM and MySpace have become.”

The MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is fully optimized to deliver rich content and data to users on the go. MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones integrates MySpace’s primary social networking components with the BlackBerry platform to provide instant, push-based messaging to users. It is available for download at www.blackberry.com/myspace or m.myspace.com from your BlackBerry Browser.

[via slashgear]

The MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is designed with features including:

• A full messaging interface, including comments, bulletins and messaging
• Real time status and mood updates.
• Find, add, and respond to friend requests
• Camera integration and optimized photo management allowing users to snap, sort and upload pictures anytime and anywhere.
• View and comment on friends’ albums and photos
• Notification of new MySpace events (message and friend requests.)

According to the faq, “If you currently log in to your MySpace account using an email address that is not associated with your BlackBerry smartphone, you will not have access to push-based MySpace Mail and friend requests. To enable push-based MySpace Mail and friend requests, add your MySpace login email address to your BlackBerry smartphone.”

As part of this collaboration, RIM is also creating a BlackBerry community page on MySpace for users to access the latest BlackBerry smartphone news, content, videos, games, ringtones, skins and other unique and engaging features.

The MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is designed with featurea including:

• A full messaging interface, including comments, bulletins and messaging
• Real time status and mood updates.
• Find, add, and respond to friend requests
• Camera integration and optimized photo management allowing users to snap, sort and upload pictures anytime and anywhere.
• View and comment on friends’ albums and photos
• Notification of new MySpace events (message and friend requests.)

The new MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is expected to be available globally from October 2008

“The global MySpace community will love MySpace Mobile on iPhone,” said Chris DeWolfe, CEO and Co-Founder of MySpace. “With rich features such as seamless photo uploading from iPhone to your MySpace profile, the MySpace Mobile application is gorgeous and as intuitive as possible-empowering the community with complete control over their global MySpace network right from the palm of their hand.”

The new MySpace Mobile for the iPhone is fully optimized for delivery of content and data to each user while preserving the aspects of the iPhone that users love. All features of the MySpace mobile application are tailored so users can simply navigate on the iPhone screen and enjoy fast access to MySpace. The MySpace application for the iPhone will be also available in 12 languages by the end of July 2008.

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