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Kraft Foods announced that iFood Assistant, a new application for iPhone and iPod touch that offers users access to food and meal planning ideas, is now available on the Apple App Store. Unlike similar Web Apps that only link to external Web sites designed to be viewed on an iPhone, ...

Consumers using mobile social networks today are mainly checking messages, status updates and comments of friends rather than posting photos or comments themselves, according to a recent study by ABI Research. However, this pattern is changing as more consumers have access to better-equipped phones and social network applications that allow ...

ffwd (pronounced “fast forward”), the company empowering thousands of consumers with a revolutionary personal remote control for channel-surfing video on the web, today released an enhancement to its media service designed to reflect a user’s lifestream: the ability to post videos found on any website directly to Twitter using a ...

While many consumers think of Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, as an online memory-jogger to kick-start their holiday shopping plans, this year many shoppers are viewing Cyber Monday through the lens of a Click ‘n’ Save Day. In fact, more than 8 out of 10 shoppers will be on ...

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, ...

Pluck announced that its technology platform empowered a landslide victory for its customers’ integrated community efforts this past election week. Through hundreds of millions of article comments, photos, videos, forum posts, social networking profiles, recommendations and ratings before, during and after election day, Pluck answered the call from its network ...

AOL announced a brand new homepage available here that will let consumers access multiple social networking services directly from AOL.com, becoming the first major portal to offer direct access to information from major social networking sites. This follows the move last month to provide access to multiple e-mail services from ...

Big Fish Games announced that it closed an $83.3 million common stock financing from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Salmon River Capital. Big Fish Games said that they intend to use the new capital raised to accelerate its global expansion.

We all knew this to be true, but all you research report geeks out there will appreciate this. Two recent surveys conducted by ABI Research have revealed that compared to average mobile phone service subscribers, those who also participate in online social networking via sites such as MySpace, Facebook, ...

It's taken me a couple days to find my favorite iPhone app, but I think I've found it. You or may not know about Shazam, but you will soon. They are a mobile music discovery provider, who allows users to seamlessly discover, buy and share tunes simply by ...