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Useful Networks announced the availability of its internationally popular mobile and Facebook integrated friend finder, sniff (Social Network Integrated Friend Finder), in the US. Already very popular in Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, sniff is now compatible with the Sprint Network in the U.S. Unlike other friend finding services, ...

Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS applications will include features allowing the sharing of real-time experiences ...

BrowserMedia is pleased to announce its participation in the release of an iPhone application for LivingSocial, a social discovery and cataloging network that allows more than 6.8 million users to review and share their favorite movies, books, games, music, restaurants and beer.

A new SMS text messaging application for BlackBerry phones that permits both personal and business users to send self-destructing text messages and pictures, has been released by BigString Corporation. In addition to providing BigString’s self-destructing features to SMS text users, the application also permits sending self-destructing messages to multiple recipients ...

Mobile video start-up Mogreet announced a series of relationships with leading wireless carriers in the U.S. and U.K. markets for on-deck placement of its creative line of mobile video messages. In addition to on-deck partnerships with AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and Alltel, the company now offers off-deck access on all ...

Namco Networks announced the availability of the arcade classic PAC-MAN on the G1 by Google, HTC, and Tmobile. When the phone launches, PAC-MAN will be available to consumers in the Android Market at no charge, giving owners of the new T-Mobile G1 handset full access to the game which usually ...

Flixwagon, leading provider of high-quality live video broadcasting from mobile phones to the Web and TV, today announced the launch of its telco-grade platform targeting mobile carriers and media organizations. The field proven, scalable and flexible platform provides an end-to-end solution to rapidly deploy customized live video broadcasting services to ...

NBC Universal has partnered with Greystripe to provide Greystripe’s entire catalog of games to NBCU’s mobile Web properties. In addition, Greystripe will distribute select NBCU mobile game titles from Bravo, SCI FI Channel and NBC to users through their 100 distribution partners. This partnership shows NBCU’s expanding commitment to mobile ...

Yahoo! highlighted a material step forward for mobile services built on Yahoo! Blueprint, its mobile development platform. Now, in addition to creating mobile widgets that run within Yahoo!’s flagship mobile application Yahoo! Go, developers can use Yahoo! Blueprint to build standalone applications for Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices, as ...

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 ...