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Palm today announced that Elevation Partners has agreed to make an additional $100 million equity investment in Palm. Under a definitive agreement reached today, Elevation will increase its investment in Palm by acquiring newly issued Series C preferred stock that is convertible into Palm common stock at a price of ...

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 ...

The presidential elections dominated user searches this year, according to AOL’s annual lists of top Web, mobile and video searches across more than 40 categories for 2008. But celebrities continued to be hot topics for searchers as well. The rankings are based on the people, places and topics that received ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

SayType has just launched and provides any telephone, landline, or mobile user with a simple, accurate, and hands-free solution for sending text and e-mail messages. The process is as easy as leaving a voicemail, up to two minutes long, that SayType will completely type out and send to any requested ...

For the first time ever, grassroots bloggers will be broadcasting video, pictures and text updates straight from the floor of the Democratic National Convention using their mobile phones and Zannel, the instant media network that is used for lifecasting, micro-blogging, and as a mobile social network.