Tuesday, February 17, 2009

BOBAJOB ON TOP OF MOBILE PEER AWARDS

Six Mobile Peer Awards have been won by five organizations. Early stage: Babajob.com won the jury and the community awards, while the audience award was won by Orbster. Emerging stage: the community award was won by Fring, the jury award was won by PopCatcher, and the audience award was won by Unkasoft. -Stuart Whitaker

NOKIA JUMPS INTO CONTENT DELIVERY

Nokia announced that in early May it will begin distributing content in the Ovi Store. The store will consolidate Nokia's current content services, including Download!, MOSH, and WidSets into a single channel. The content will range from application, games, videos, widgets, podcasts, location-based applications, and personalization content for Nokia Series 40 and S60 devices. The Nokia N97, available in June, will be the first device to include the storefront. Nokia plans to offer advanced content targeting and monetization options for content providers and application developers. -Stuart Whitaker