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iSkoot offers real-time Twitter to consumer handsets

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Mobile Internet solutions provider iSkoot announced that it has added support for the Twitter community through Kalaida mobile services platform which can deliver real-time Internet functionality to almost any handset.

iSkoot’s Kalaida platform lets consumer handsets connect to Twitter and other communications tools the way PCs do: all at once and in real time. A single sign-in activates all services to keep the experience simple while preserving handset resources and battery life. Other services enabled on the Kalaida platform include full-time, real-time connection to social networks, personal e-mail, instant messaging, and leading news, sports, and entertainment feeds. Kalaida delivers a full spectrum of Internet services to a single live screen on the handset, eliminating the need for users to open a browser or application to access one service at a time. All services are delivered over available data connections, without requiring 3G or WiFi for optimal performance.

Originally posted on February 28, 2009 @ 6:24 am

Gameloft delivers 20 games for Android Market

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Publisher and developer of video games Gameloft has released its line-up of 20 games for Android-powered devices such as the T-Mobile G1. Through Android Market, Gameloft delivers “mega-games” with superior graphics and gameplay capabilities. The offerings range from Derek Jeter Pro Baseball 2009 to Oregon Trail and CSI:Miami.

“With digital distribution being the platform of the future, Android Market continues the momentum by providing new channels for consumers to find, buy and download games,” said Gonzague de Vallois, senior vice president, publishing, Gameloft. “We believe in the potential of Android Market, both in terms of content and accessibility. We will continue to support this platform any way we can.”

With internal development and production focused solely on digital distribution, Gameloft is ideally positioned to lead the way into the next generation of video games.

Originally posted on February 24, 2009 @ 11:11 am

Buzzwire’s first community-driven mobile site launches

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Buzzwire, Inc. has launched the first editorially directed and community-driven mobile site that features the best of the mobile web. The new site at m.buzzwire.com, lets users easily discover, experience, and share the most popular content on the mobile web and offers advertisers, publishers and carriers a new way to build brands, increase site traffic and increase revenue from new services.

Several publishers, including TV Guide, will incorporate the Buzzwire “Buzzie” button on their mobile sites enabling users to easily post and share their favorite mobile content to m.buzzwire.com , resulting in mobile traffic increases for Buzzwire’s publishing partners.

Anyone with a mobile phone and web access can go to m.buzzwire.com. The site features the freshest, most popular stories, sites, video, music, photos and people as determined by the mobile community, and makes them easily accessible to any user. Users can contribute content by sending a link to that content to Buzzwire by email, text message, or clicking on the “Buzzie” button on mobile web sites.

Originally posted on February 23, 2009 @ 10:30 am

Mobile revenues to reach $14.6 billion by 2013

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Global revenues from mobile music services will reach nearly $14.6 billion by 2013 despite a fall in ringtone sales, a new report from Juniper Research revealed.

The Juniper report also found that many of the key hurdles to mass adoption of full-track services have been significantly reduced, notably handset form factor, memory constraints, and (in some markets) a reduction of data costs. It said that these factors, allied to the increasing willingness of the major labels to participate in mobile ventures and the proliferation of user-generated content in the mobile space, were likely to drive push adoption and usage levels still higher.

Much of the recent interest in full-track downloads across the industry has been stimulated by iPhone and iPhone 3G.

The Juniper Research report includes historical, current and forecast market sizing through to 2013, including data on service usage, user numbers, pricing, user spend and end-user revenues together with scenario-based forecasts of the impact of the economic downturn on mobile music adspend.

Details of the report Mobile Music: Videos, Streamed, Full Tracks, Ringbacks, Ringtones & Downturn Analysis 2009-2013 (5th edition) can be freely downloaded.

Originally posted on February 21, 2009 @ 9:58 am

Yahoo Mobile introduces new Yahoo Mobile service

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yahoomobileMobile World Congress 2009 is on so it is only fitting that after MySpace announced the launch of a new mobile site, here comes Yahoo as well.

Yahoo announced, you guessed it right, the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo Mobile, an app developed for the Apple iPhone, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola as well as those powered by Windows Mobile. Yahoo! Mobile initially will be available through a managed beta program, with general availability expected in Q2 2009.

Originally posted on February 17, 2009 @ 11:00 am