Mobile Social Network News
Facebook Overhauls Advertising And Brand Pages
2nd March 2012
Facebook has announced that they will soon launch a range of new services including a facility to allow advertisers to place ads on mobiles and in their main homepage news feed. This will be the first time that ads will be seen in the main content section of the popular social network or on their mobile service. More »
Facebook Updates Android App, Mobile Ads Coming Soon?
8th December 2011
Facebook has just launched a major update for their Android app. The update brings the app closer to the experience of browsing Facebook from a computer and delivers content much faster than the older versions of the app More »
Mobile Web Grows 218% In India
30th June 2011
Along with being one of the biggest developing economies in the world, India has also become one of the fastest growing countries, where mobile Web traffic is concerned. More »
Facebook Phone Rumours About To Come True?
12th January 2011
Rumours of a Facebook branded mobile phone have resurfaced this week following the recent news that a new handset called the INQ Cloud Touch has been certified by Bluetooth. More »
U.S. Mobile Searches Grow 90%
7th June 2010
MobiLens, a service of comScore, has just released a report on the growth of mobile applications and browser content. According to their findings, social networking has seen the largest amount of growth in both mobile as well as browser access. More »
Revenue From Mobile Web 2.0 To Reach $18.9 Billion By 2014
19th March 2010
Juniper Research has predicted that demand for Web 2.0 services on mobile phones and the associated annual revenues from those services will reach $18.9 billion by 2014. More »
Mobile Social Networking Favoured By Women
4th March 2010
The results of a study conducted recently by the Nielsen group, show that women use mobiles for social networking much more than men do. More »
Facebook Zero For Mobile
19th February 2010
Facebook will shortly launch a new version of the social network, called ‘Facebook Zero’ for mobile Web users. More »
Facebook Dominates UK Mobile Web
12th February 2010
A recent survey by the GSMA shows that Facebook now dominates the mobile internet traffic in the U.K. More »
MMS Updates On Twitter Via Orange
19th November 2009
U.K. mobile operator Orange has announced a partnership with Twitter to introduce MMS support on Twitter. More »
Facebook Mobile To Reach 100 Million Users By 2010
8th September 2009
Facebook Mobile is growing very rapidly in popularity. Recently released numbers indicate that the service is now used by more than three times as many people as the number that used it eight months ago. More »
Google Unveiling A Social Agenda For Mobile?
18th February 2009
Last week saw Google launch two very social applications for mobile handsets. The first, Latitude, allows users to see where their friends are on a mobile map. The latest release, My Tracks, allows users to share where they have been. More »
Google Latitude Ushers New Era In Mobile Social Activity
6th February 2009
Google Latitude, the latest service from the UK’s favourite brand, was launched this week. Users can find out where their friends and contacts are and can send and receive status messages via their mobile handsets. More »
Motorola Making Android Social Phone
24th October 2008
Handset manufacturer, Motorola looks set to make their first Android Smart Social phone. They have already appointed about 350 employees to do this. They have also placed ads in various publications to recruit software engineers for their Interactive Design Team. More »
Yahoo! oneConnect Brings Mobile Social Networking To Life
18th February 2008
After having been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons – announcing layoffs for a 1,000 people and then receiving an unsolicited take-over offer by Microsoft – Yahoo! is trying to revive its sagging fortunes by introducing a new service which promises to revolutionise the way users will communicate. More »
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