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Micromax Modu T Phone Rolled Out In India

nextupresearch1 — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:16:17 +0000

Micromax has partnered with Modu to introduce a customized and co-branded version of modu T phone in India. The modu T phone holds the Guinness World Record for being the lightest touch phone on the planet. Modu T has claimed to be unique with its functionality and the connectivity options with the different “fy” devices. These devices enable the users to customize their phones with additional features and functionalities.

A Photo-Sharing App With Bigger Aspirations

nextupresearch1 — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:21:16 +0000

The latest such app to get a lot of buzz is called Instagram. The app offers a dozen filters that transform photos to make them look old-fashioned or black-and-white or to adjust light and shadows. Instagram is also a mobile social network with dreams of becoming the Twitter for photographs. Instead of following people’s 140-character thoughts, Instagram users can follow their photo stream and get a glimpse of what they ate for lunch and the view from their office.

Sofialys Announces Partnership With eBuddy

nextupresearch1 — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:29:34 +0000

Sofialyst announced that it has signed a partnership deal with eBuddy, to become eBuddy’s exclusive mobile advertising sales partner in France. eBuddy enables global users to chat for free in one, aggregated interface across all major IM networks including AIM, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Hyves, ICQ, MySpace, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. eBuddy is said to be one of the largest mobile publishers in the world and serves over 2 billion mobile ads globally every month – with nearly 100 million in France alone – across its mobile IM platforms including the native eBuddy for iPhone applications.

Modu Unveils World’s Lightest Smartphone

nextupresearch1 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:47:12 +0000

Modu has announced the Modu T, officially the world’s lightest touch-screen smartphone, and it brings some impressive features with its tiny form-factor. Designed to offer a full 3.5G smartphone device in the smallest package possible – so small, in fact, that Guinness has officially given it the world record for the lightest touch-screen smartphone in the world – the 2.2-inch gadget is certainly a world away from the increasingly sizable devices from Apple, RIM, and the various Android shippers.

BlackBerry Meebo Chat Client Enters Open Beta

nextupresearch1 — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:50:46 +0000

Meebo is coming to BlackBerry after an extended run on Android and iPhone. All your chat sessions can be automatically saved to the cloud, and synced with other clients, so you can pick up conversations right where they dropped off.

Launches New App, Site Redesign

nextupresearch1 — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:11:50 +0000

Meebo has announced that, to celebrate its fifth year of existence, it launched a new app and a redressed iWebsite. Meebo released the Beta version of its Blackberry app as an easier way to connect with friends through the Web by bringing all their Facebook, Twitter, AIM and more accounts into one app. The point of the app is to seamlessly tranfer the sharing and discussing people do on their desktops and laptops to their smartphones. They also have an app for the iPhone. Both apps are free.

Meebo Toolbar Gains Popularity With Publishers

nextupresearch1 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:24:18 +0000

The company has rolled out an increasingly popular toolbar for publishers wishing to socialize their sites. Since last August, its user base has ballooned by 300 percent to 54.4 million unique users in May, per comScore. And that figure is sure to swell, as Meebo has recently added EW.com and Seventeen and will soon add TVGuide.com to its group of 4,000-plus publishing partners.

Meebo Uses Cotendo to Optimize Global Web Performance

nextupresearch1 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:25:29 +0000

Meebo has integrated two flagship services from content delivery network and site acceleration services provider Cotendo to efficiently balance traffic between data centers and support its real-time content sharing strategy. According to Meebo is using Cotendo’s Advanced Domain Name Service and CDN Balancer to efficiently route traffic between its two data centers on both coasts of the US. In doing so, Cotendo is helping Meebo’s let users instantly connect, share, and communicate with all of their friends and colleagues.

eBuddy Second Mobile App To Reach 50 Million Downloads On GetJar

nextupresearch1 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:31:00 +0000

eBuddy has surpassed the 50 million downloads mark for its eBuddy Mobile Messenger app. At the time of writing, the product page shows 50,655,934 downloads to date. eBuddy thus joins the ranks of Facebook as the second mobile app to exceed 50 million downloads on GetJar. The milestone was reached less than 15 months after hitting 10m downloads.

HeyZap Launches A ‘Meebo Bar’ For Social Games

nextupresearch1 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:21:26 +0000

HeyZap offers expanded features like achievements, has launched its Social Games Bar. The bar is similar in appearance to the Meebo Bar, it sits at the bottom of the browser window and persists as you navigate through a publisher’s site. The bar gives users access to 30,000 different social and casual games, some of which are tied to Facebook using Facebook Connect.