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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Up until very …

My e-mail inbox is teeming with pitches offering self-serving “predictions” for 2009 that read more like best-case scenarios for those hoping to cash in on mobile. But here’s a forecast …

Move over YouTube. MySpace lovers can now access video from the social-networking monster on their handsets. MySpace, along with video technology vendor RipCode, announced that MySpace mobile users can view …

On-the-go consumers are using their phones to stay connected to their social networking communities, according to new data from AOL.The portal said MySpace was the most popular mobile search term …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is teaming with VeriSign Inc. to enable subscribers to send photos and videos from their phones to popular social media sites.The offering uses VeriSign’s Xoomerang platform to …

More than 400,000 BlackBerry users have downloaded the new MySpace application, according to Research In Motion Ltd., shattering the record for applications in their first week of release.The offering, which …

Facebook is stepping up its mobile game.The wildly popular social networking site has seen the number of wireless users triple this year, exploding from 5 million to 15 million active …

The economic downturn is already dragging down the online-marketing space, but pure-play mobile ad companies swear they’re not worried about its affect on the wireless Web.Nielsen Online last month reported …

If this keeps up, content owners may forget the whole “on-deck vs. off-deck” argument. Instead, they’ll be trying to figure out which mobile application stores’ shelves they want to stock.Google …

BOSTON – It’s a busy time for T-Mobile USA Inc.The carrier is in the midst of rolling out its 3G network, it is launching the world’s first Google Inc.-powered cellphone, …

MySpace jumped aboard the Android bandwagon with a free, downloadable application customized for the new platform.MySpace Android allows users to upload photos, access band profiles and tour schedules, view comments …

Social networking is exploding in mobile, according to figures released by ABI Research. And Frank Meehan thinks he knows how to capitalize.ABI polled 500 users of online social networks and …

The most important weapon in the war against the dumb-pipe scenario may just be the cloud.Cloud-based services – hosted applications “in the sky” and accessible through the Internet, as opposed …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. I have …

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. once again took advantage of the trade-show spotlight, using CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 to plug an iPhone version of its oneConnect offering and …

SAN FRANCISCO — Verizon Wireless stoked the white-hot social-networking fire, launching three offerings that allow subscribers to share content and stay in contact with their friends.The carrier yesterday unveiled SocialLife, …

Mobile e-mail company Visto Corp. announced a major new push into the social-networking space, an effort to expand the company’s offerings beyond e-mail and into various real-time information services. Specifically, …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Along with every …

Once again, the Olympics will be seen as a kind of barometer for mobile data. But for wireless to perform alchemy at this year’s games by turning consumers into gold, …

When it comes to investment money, perhaps no space in mobile is as hot as social networking. And it looks like the spigot isn’t going to shut off anytime soon. …

Microsoft Corp. said it will acquire the Portuguese mobile software developer MobiComp for an undisclosed sum.MobiComp specializes in data protection and management technologies that allow the backup and restoration of …

TEXTING. IF YOU HAD ASKED AMERICANS WHAT THAT WORD MEANT 15 years ago, most would have been short for words. Now the definition of texting, even though still not listed …

If you’re one of the bazillion players looking for a slice of the mobile social networking pie, listen up, because Paul Coulton has some advice.Coulton, a “senior lecturer” who specializes …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in …

You may not have noticed last week’s news that Verizon Wireless is being sued by the parents of a 14-year-old girl who claims she was sexually assaulted by a man …