Garmin has signed a multi year global agreement with GyPsii according to a statement from GyPsii. As we are aware, Garmin is known for it's Sat Nav hardware, whereas GyPsii is a "geo-location and mobile social networking provider". As per the agreement terms, GyPsii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, development licenses and GyPsii [...]

 Nielsen Mobile has just released stats showing that the UK leads Europe in mobile social networking - apparently 810,000 subscribers visited social networking sites on their handsets in Q1 2008! Facebook was the most popular SN site in the UK, with myspace in second place - which is the opposite to what was found in the [...]

Now we mentioned Frengo on IntoMobile when it launched some time back, but now "Social mobile services" company Frengo has announced a "suite of applications that interoperate across popular sites Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Orkut and Bebo, enabling users to interact with existing contacts as well as discover like-minded individuals regardless of their particular social networking [...]

Director Spike Lee has hooked up with Nokia to direct a movie made with Mobile phone video footage from "everyday people", in what he is apparently calling the "democratization of film". The film will be by Nokia Productions and will be over 3 acts - an "assignment" will be announced online for each act, adn [...]

What is it with UGC-TV? You mention one company, and suddenly a whole load come along! Ammeon is announcing what is apparently the "birth of a unique new communication medium", called Social Mobile Broadcasting. Ammeon's Commune platform basically combines interactive mobile TV with communities and social networking, to delivering an e2e solution designed to complement unicast, [...]