Only days after taking the wraps off MobileAd World Focus, a mobile advertising ecosystem primer endorsed by global mobile organizations and published by MSG and Convergence World, companies across the value chain have reached out to share exclusive case studies and inquire about sponsorship opportunities. It's all work in progress that I will share in the coming weeks, along with in-depth look at a new report from I...

TWO-THIRDS OF TWEETS COME FROM THE WEB, says a new report from Rapleaf. The big news today is that location information is coming to Twitter, as the service will make location information about its users available. But Rapleaf says that 65 percent of users’ messages come from their PCs. 6 percent come from text, 4 percent come from the mobile web, and another 5 to 9 percent come from BlackBerry and iPhone apps. Sou...

VODAFONE OPENS: On Tuesday Vodafone announced that it will stimulate a new generation of mobile Internet applications by providing Internet service developers with a single point of access to their global customer base. With direct access to Vodafone's billing system and controlled access to other network capabilities such as location awareness, content partners will be able to reach all customers on mobile devices....