Vodafone moves into MySpace
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Teenage angst on Vodafone Live! Social networking site MySpace will be exclusively available through Vodafone Live!, the companies announced today.â¦
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VODAFONE, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone network, launched its third-generation services in 13 countries today, including the UK.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone said it planned to launch a high-speed broadband Internet service for its millions of customers in Britain.
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MySpace.com, the social networking site owned by News Corp. , began to offer a mobile version of its service to users of Cingular Wireless LLC phones, making its biggest push to expand in the wireless market.
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MySpace on Tuesday opened its popular social-networking platform to software developers, echoing a move credited with helping Facebook gain ground on its market-leading rival.
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Social network MySpace joins with internet phone firm Skype to allow MySpace users to make calls to each other.
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Vodafone customers will be able to access and update their MySpace websites from their mobile phone, the firms say.
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The social networking Web site MySpace is launching a free, advertising-supported cell phone version Monday as part of a wider bid by parent News Corp. to attract advertising for mobile Web sites.
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LOS ANGELES - The social networking website MySpace is launching a free, advertising-supported cellphone version today as part of a wider bid by its parent, News Corp. , to attract advertising for mobile websites.
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Vodafone has flicked the switch for the start of its &#39;Vodafone live! With 3G&#39; service. Its portal of mobile services has had a 3G makeover for UMTS-based (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) video
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(InfoWorld) - In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube. The announcement follows others this week from Vodafone withÂ MySpace.comÂ and eBay. The deals point to a growing interest from online content providers to offer their services to mobile customers as well as continued efforts by operators to drive usage of their wireless data networks. The mobile YouTube service will launch initially in the U.K. where customers will be able to view select videos, forward links of videos and upload and search for videos. Vodafone plans to launch the service in other European markets as well. YouTube has a similar offering in the U.S. where customers of Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless can all upload videos from their phones. On Thursday, Vodafone said it will be the first to launch a new mobile service from eBay in Europe outside of the U.K. Vodafone Italy customers will be the first to be able to download a free application in order to search for and buy items on eBay. The application will come loaded on phones in the future and Vodafone expects to launch the service across its European markets later this year. EBay has experimented with different mobile offerings. In Germany, it launched a customized version of the Opera Mini browser that lets users buy, sell and track bids. EBay also allows any U.K. mobile user to bid for and buy items on their phones. Also this week, Vodafone announced that its customers, starting in the U.K., will be able to download an application to their phones that will allow them to edit their MySpace profiles, upload photos and blog entries and send and receive MySpace messages. It's the first mobile offering for MySpace in Europe, Vodafone said. All three services will be available within Vodafone Live, the operator's mobile portal.
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A converged Wi-Fi device will follow efforts with Vodafone to make BT big in the mobile space again.
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C'mere you Vodafone is to be the first operator to make use of Facebook's new Mobile Operators Platform, and has also signed a deal with dating site Match.com.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - MySpace went mobile in a big way on Monday, launching a service that lets Cingular Wireless subscribers use many features of the social networking portal on their cell phones. For $2.99 per month plus standard use charges, Cingular subscribers can download a Java application that lets them blog, upload photos and update their MySpace profiles, among other things. The service, MySpace Mobile, is available now on select handsets. Subscribers can text-message "MYSPACE" to the Cingular number 386. The offering represents the first big mobile deal for the popular News Corp. portal, which claims 80 million active users. MySpace already offers some capabilities to users of Helio, a relatively small-scale mobile joint venture from SK Telecom Co. Ltd. and EarthLink Inc. Many would-be competitors have tried to emulate MySpace's success on the Web, and mobile devices present a new opportunity to capture social-networking users and make them loyal. Other MySpace Mobile features let subscribers read and reply to their MySpace messages, view and manage their friend requests, post comments, and view the profile, friends list and groups list of any MySpace user. For now, MySpace is leaving out video, said Amit Kapur, MySpace vice president of business development. Video may make it onto the service as mobile devices and networks improve, he said. Also, the mobile client cuts down on the elaborate graphics and wallpaper that can make MySpace pages slow to fully load even on the Web. To appeal to the big audience of Cingular's more than 58 million subscribers, MySpace is offering a simpler interface than it does for Helio's mobile-browser-based offering, Kapur said. The process of creating blog entries will be similar to standard mobile text-messaging and can be used for quick, short entries. The entries will appear on both the user's mobile and Web pages. The Cingular deal will be exclusive into next year, but MySpace intends to make mobile access ubiquitous across the U.S. cellular landscape in 2007, Kapur said. It also is looking into mobile offerings in other countries. Today, MySpace Mobile has no advertising. As the mobile advertising market and technology mature over the next few years, MySpace may offer a free, advertising-supported version of the service, Kapur said. Cingular and MySpace earlier this year set up a service that lets MySpace musical artists make songs into Cingular ringtones. The mobile operator's subscribers can also get MySpace Mobile Alerts that tell them via text message when they get messages, comments and other postings to their MySpace pages.
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Â£40m next generation deal Vodafone has agreed to pay Cable and Wireless Â£40m over two years to help it migrate its backend and enterprise functions to an IP-based network.â¦
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Cingular Wireless has made a connection with social-networking kingpin MySpace to allow MySpace users to update their online profiles through compatible Cingular phones.
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Social network MySpace is to allow third-party developers to build applications for the site.