) December 5, 2008 -- Xtify (www.xtify.com) becomes the first of its kind solution to offer developers a free webservice for locating people in real-time. Developers can program into Xtify's API and incorporate location into their existing website without having to build their own downloadable applications. Because of Xtify, websites are no longer reliant on wireless carriers to get the location of their users.

) November 26, 2008 -- Mytalk, an early stage mobile networking firm, today announced that it has selected PointAbout's thin client mobile device applications to power Mytalk's proximity aware social networking service and opt-in mobile advertising platform.

) January 22, 2009 -- Skout is a new mobile, real-time, location-based dating platform that helps people meet compatible singles in their vicinity. People can use Skout to chat, share photos, and even share videos and other information. Whether at a conference, a bar, a college campus or a sporting event, people with similar interests who are near each other can use Skout to communicate and possibly even find love.

Skout iPhone User listing

) October 26, 2009 -- Flurry, Inc., the leading provider of in-application analytics for mobile devices, today reported an unprecedented 94% increase in application project starts within its system by Android developers between September and October projected totals. Beyond its android-focused partnerships with T-Mobile and Motorola, Flurry attributes increased Android developer focus in its system to the upcoming November launch of Droid by Verizon Wireless.

) August 25, 2009 -- Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, today announced that LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, has begun shipping Destinator 9 on select smartphones. The turn-by-turn, voice-guided GPS navigation software is currently shipping on the LG GM730 smartphone, which features the S-Class UI overlay running on Microsoft Windows Mobile.

) September 25, 2008 -- After Moximity CEO Bryan Jones learned he was only a mile away from meeting up with old friends after a concert last summer, he set out to change the way in which people organize their social lives. Moximity brings together your existing social networks with information on the most relevant venues, events and specials in your current area. The service is launching as an iPhone application.

) October 2, 2008 -- Mizoon Inc. announced today that it has launched its mobile social networking service to the public. Mizoon is a new mobile and Internet service that allows people to social network via phone and Web. Its unique location awareness enriches the experience so users can engage from home and from their favorite cafes, clubs, restaurants and gathering places; location owners can enable and engage with their patrons online when they are onsite or off. Mizoon protects user privacy with smart profiles for various moods and personas that makes it easy to engage personally or professionally. With no GPS and no phone client to download, Mizoon is fun, safe and easy to use.

) May 12, 2009 -- Plusmo, Inc., the leader in mobile widgets, applications and application store solutions, was named the global winner of Nokia's "Calling All Innovators" Hackathon for mobile application developers, held last week at the inaugural Nokia Developer Summit in Monaco. The developer contest was held to celebrate the much anticipated launch of the Nokia N97. Plusmo's Rocket mobile app, a social location widget which displays a user's nearest friends on a map, was built on-site by Plusmo developers during the 24-hour Hackathon coding competition.

) September 9, 2009 -- Mobile application development pioneer, Cascada Mobile (www.cascadamobile.com), today announced iPhone and Android support for its popular Breeze mobile development platform, adding to its existing support for BlackBerry and Nokia smartphones. Now developers and publishers can use the Breeze Platform to easily create and distribute rich mobile applications that work on billions of mobile phones around the world, including iPhones and Android handsets, without having to rewrite their apps for each individual platform.

) May 14, 2009 -- eBuddy, the world's leading independent web and mobile instant messaging (IM) platform, today announced the launch of eBuddy for Android, a free instant messaging application that enables users with AIM, Facebook, ICQ, Google Talk, Yahoo! or MSN Windows Live Messenger to have multiple chats in one interface, and provides a high quality, fast and reliable 'on-the-go' chat experience.

) May 6, 2009 -- Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, and Ubiquisys, the leading developer of 3G femtocells, today announced UX-Zone, an application that changes the appearance of the Android phone interface automatically as you enter your home or office. UX-Zonetm from Intrinsyc incorporates femtocell presence triggers from the Ubiquisys FemtoApps initiative (http://www.femtoapps.net/).

Intrinsyc Software International, Inc.

) February 16, 2009 -- O3SIS AG, a leading provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, today announced the launch of its new Device Client Suite. Based on OMA DS (SyncML), Java and IP-Push industry standards the brand new Clients enable users to synchronize all types of multimedia contents from and to mobile devices. The Clients also fully support Push Mail capabilities of today's primary Smartphone platforms in the market, such as iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian Smartphones. O3SIS customers now can fully leverage existing infrastructure investments to empower a wide range of mobile phones, while unifying all the various Smartphone platforms and previously isolated applications.

) April 20, 2009 -- Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, today announced the opening of an Intrinsyc Center of Excellence, which will support Android software development in Beijing, China. Aiming to serve the growing number of handset manufacturers based in Asia choosing Android, Intrinsyc's Beijing center offers a wide range of software solutions and engineering services that speed time to market and increase device innovation and quality.

Intrinsyc Software International, Inc.

) October 1, 2008 -- TechnoCom Corporation™ (www.technocom-wireless.com) announced today that its location service assurance platform, LocationAssurance Manager®, now protects wireless networks serving more than 140 million subscribers. TechnoCom is a leading provider of solutions to enable wireless location services that support Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) and location-based services including navigation, real-time traffic, local search and other applications.

) February 20, 2009 -- Synchronica, the leading developer of mobile email and synchronization solutions, today announces new functionality within Mobile Gateway 4.0 that pushes social networking and news updates to any mass market mobile phone.

A wide range of popular social networking sites, such as Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, LinkedIn and Plaxo are supported in addition to thousands of other leading news, financial, and sporting feeds.

Updates are automatically pushed to the user's mobile phone whenever new content is made available. The integration is based on Mobile Gateway's standard JCR-compliant plugin architecture which connects to any site that supports RSS feeds.

) February 11, 2009 -- Skout is a new mobile, real-time, location-based dating service that helps people meet compatible singles in their vicinity. Today the company is announcing the immediate availability of SKOUT for iPhone. People can use SKOUT for iPhone to chat with, share photos, and find dates with other singles in their vicinity. Whether at a conference, a bar, a college campus or a sporting event, people with similar interests can now use their iPhones to communicate with other singles and possibly even find love.

Skout iPhone User listing

) September 10, 2009 -- The Weather Channel Mobile today announced a new free, ad-supported version of its popular weather application for the Android Platform. The Weather Channel for Android adds new features – animated radar maps and traffic cameras for select cities – while still encompassing the enhanced features of its original version, including the ability to view fully customized weather maps, detailed conditions and forecasts, local video and severe weather alerts. Other additions include expandable banner advertisements and a notification bar with the current temperature and severe weather alert indicator.

) June 4, 2009 -- Scanbuy, Inc. announced today that is has added two new features to its ScanLife mobile 2D barcode platform. One new barcode action, the Twitter Code, can automatically post a custom message or "Tweet" to the popular social networking platform. The other, called the Lotto Code, allows marketers to easily enable an instant win experience through the mobile phone.

Scan this code to post a tweet on this story.

) December 2, 2008 -- Tagggit has officially launched their mobile application for Nokia devices, the first application to incorporate an accurate Indoors GPS system on Nokia S60 phones. Tagggit's geo-tagging mobile application can find a phone's position indoors, within a few seconds and accurate to fifteen feet.

Loughlin Spollen, Tagggit's founder, described the announcement as "a major milestone in mobile social networking. Today, members can geo-blog, review a location or search for geo-tags from their phone while sitting comfortably indoors and without waiting for a traditional GPS fix."

) October 7, 2009 -- Recursion Software, a provider of next-generation software platforms and intelligent middleware, today at the 2009 CTIA WIRELESS I.T.

) November 6, 2008 -- Moborazzi.com is proud to announce the launch of their social photo sharing platform for mobile phones. In beta since April of 2008, Moborazzi provides mobile phone users with instant over-the-air upload and direct-to-mobile broadcasting of mobile photos to personalized networks of friends and followers. Snap a picture, post it to Moborazzi and the photo is on the phones of friends and family, posted to the web, and saved to an online Moborazzi account from anywhere, instantly.

) October 23, 2009 -- DoApp® Inc's Mobile Local News (MLN) Network has launched the first local user-generated content capabilities for locally branded television and newspapers across both the iPhone and Google Android. DoApp has also released the highly anticipated geo-targeted advertising network Adagogo™ that gives new hope for new revenues for television and print news media by presenting a turnkey mobile solution that can let advertisers geo-target ads right down to within four feet of a consumer.

) September 28, 2008 -- ZOOSPI.COM is proud to introduce a new and convenient feature available on its website for homeowners and service providers on the go.

ZOOSPI.COM is the first fully interactive website that connects in-home service providers, such as plumbers and electricians with homeowners. It enables homeowners to access services they need, when they need them. Scheduling an in-home service is now easier than ever. ZOOSPI.COM offers a real-time map of mobile service professionals on location and provides instant booking capabilities between businesses and customers.

August 27, 2008 --
LOS ANGELES, BUSINESS WIRE -- JuiceCaster, the leading mobile social media application, is now available for one the most popular Blackberry devices via a free beta application for users in the United States. For a limited time, Blackberry(R) Curve(TM) users can sign-up to receive the JuiceCaster beta at www.juicecaster.com/blackberry. The free beta application is available to users of the Blackberry Curve (8310) for AT&T, and the Blackberry Curve (8330) for Verizon Wireless. In the coming weeks, the free beta will be opened up for Blackberry Pearl users, and for Blackberry users in Europe.

) April 23, 2009 -- Xtify and Intuit Inc. today announced the "Intuit/Xtify Application Contest" to showcase the potential of integrating location-based services into rich Internet applications built on Intuit's Platform as a Service, the Intuit Partner Platform.

To reward innovation in the use of location technology, Intuit and Xtify are offering up to $12,500 in prize money to the top location applications for two prizes: one determined by a panel of judges; and second based on user adoption of entrant applications.

Mobile messaging company, SMS Media Group, announces the release of its LBZ (Location Based Zip Code) technology. With LBZ, companies can now automatically capture zip codes from wireless devices and target messages based on geographic data. (PRWeb Aug 30, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2800004.htm

) October 27, 2008 -- The Weather Channel Mobile today announced the launch of its advanced mobile weather application for the Android platform. Available through the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1 phone, the new application gives users the ability to view fully customized weather maps, detailed conditions and forecasts, local video and severe weather alerts. Weather information can be viewed for neighborhood landmarks such as schools, parks, lakes and more to assist with daily activity planning. In addition, location-enabled severe weather alerts let users know when dangerous weather threatens their area.

) January 17, 2009 -- A new iPhone and BlackBerry application developed by PointAbout and FortiusOne in partnership with Qorvis and Patton Boggs, gives a voice to 2009 Obama Inauguration attendees by polling users on a range of questions and displaying the results with user-friendly visual analytics at www.NavigatingWashington.com.

NavigatingWashington.com Visual Analytics

) February 4, 2009 -- Treasuremytext is a web service used by texters the world over to archive and share their SMS messages. Treasuremytext for Android provides a seamless solution to archiving SMS messages on the Web from a T-Mobile G1. The Treasuremytext app enables the archiving of all messages automatically to the Treasuremytext service for the first time. Once a G1 user has installed and configured the app it works in the background automatically creating a copy of each SMS in the service. Once there users can then search, print, organise and share these messages.

O2 Slovakia brings customers the fring mobile social community for free, allowing users to communicate and share web-based experiences from their mobile devices on popular social network services such as Skype®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, and AIM®. Customers can choose from a variety of mobile devices supported by fring on various mobile platforms including Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile. Starting today, customers can download the fring application for free by visiting www.sk.o2.com/fring. (PRWeb Oct 16, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/O2-slovakia/fring/prweb3061804.htm

) December 9, 2008 -- LocaModa, Inc., a company connecting brands to audiences through location-centric media, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent number 7,450,954, “A system and method for providing and managing location-based interactive content.” The patent covers the core technology for enabling interactive social and mobile media across physical and virtual locations; this technology underpins the LocaModa platform, which has provided mobile and social interactivity to millions of users in thousands of locations.    

) March 19, 2009 -- Addictive Mobility has created an iPhone application for Toyota that combines GPS technology with a user-friendly interface that provides a unique tool for Toyota customers and iPhone users alike.

The Toyota Quick Drive Home application maps out the nearest Canadian Toyota dealerships closest to the user. The user can then pick which dealership they would like to visit, and with a touch of the screen, the application guides the user with turn-by-turn directions and a overall map view of the journey.

In the "GPS Speed Dial" feature, users can store custom locations in the such as Home, Workplace or other points of interest. Directions are provided to such stored points of interest based on the current location.

) November 5, 2008 -- Acuity Mobile Inc., a leading provider of mobile marketing services, today unveiled Version 5.0 of its patented Embedded Mobile Advertising Platform (eMAP) at the ad:tech Digital Marketing Event in New York. The latest version of eMAP introduces Acuity's Mobile Compliance Module, a suite of tools which make it easier than ever for mobile advertisers to comply with mobile privacy regulations and adhere to industry recommendations and best practices.

New Acuity logo

) August 17, 2009 -- SpoofApp, the world's most popular Caller ID privacy tool, voice changer, and call recording application--which Google Android users have rated 4.5 out of 5 stars--is now available in the BlackBerry App World. In the short time since hitting the BlackBerry App World, SpoofApp has already reached the #7 spot in the "Top Downloads" category.

) June 3, 2009 -- Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, today announced the general availability of Destinator 9, a leader in cross-platform GPS navigation software. The newest version of Destinator delivers the mobile industry's highest quality user experience in navigation devices, with a host of new capabilities and features designed to get people to their destinations easily, quickly and safely. Destinator 9 is available for Android mobile phones, Microsoft Windows Mobile smart phones, Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and connected PNDs based on Microsoft Windows Embedded CE.

) October 9, 2009 -- Mobango, the first social mobile application store, today announced its partnership with RingRing Media, the UK's biggest independent mobile media planning and buying agency dedicated entirely to the mobile internet.

By partnering with Mobango, RingRing Media's clients will have access to a massive mobile distribution community, with over five million members and more than 2500 supported devices - with over 550 million apps already downloaded. RingRing Media's trusted and reliable platform will handle effective premium mobile advertising campaigns, across geographical location and optimised for handset screen size and model.

) June 26, 2009 -- Big in Japan, a Dallas-based idea factory for mobile applications, announced that co-founder Alexander Muse met this week with the GS1 MobileCom Work Group to offer feedback and advice based on user experience with ShopSavvy, the popular comparison shopping application for mobile phones.

ShopSavvy is a barcode-scanning mobile application that enables users to comparison shop on the go.

The meeting took place June 23-24 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it will preview its new ad-based open source mobile email solution at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 1114. The company will also demonstrate a new version of its award-winning mobile email and PIM sync software on the latest mobile devices and platforms, including Apple iPhone, Google Android, RIM Blackberry, and more. Funambol will be located at stand #1J46 in Hall 1.

San Jose 5 Aug, 2009 Monitis Inc., released today a mobile availability and performance monitoring application called Monitis Mobile Monitoring Agent (MMMA) for Android-powered phones.

) July 16, 2009 -- Appcelerator®, the only open source provider that enables developers to rapidly create mobile, desktop, and web applications from a single platform, today announced that - just one month after the beta release of its flagship Appcelerator Titanium™ platform - it has signed up 3,000 new developers, who are creating a variety of applications for the iPhone and Android mobile devices.

More App. Less Code. Appcelerator.