Eighties idol Rick Springfield once sang, “We all need the human touch.” That’s what Limbo, a niche mobile social network, attempts to do. Limbo’s shtick is that it’s “location-aware.” Rather than digitally report every bit of minutiae of a person’s life, the service focuses on where people are and what they’re doing, anywhere in

It's been a long hard slog for Palm OS fans, these past five years. Since 2004's grand unveiling of the stillborn Cobalt, Palm OS has been lost in a nightmarish software limbo, with the "latest" iteration, Garnet, caught between the dated design paradigms of the past and the increasingly punishing demands of the future. With PDAs having fallen by the wayside and the always-connected cell...

Mobile Social Networking Forum – www.socialnetworking-forum.com - will showcase the leading mobile social networking publishers demonstrating that subscriber growth in mobile has the potential to overtake PC. The conference will hear from established mobile social networking platforms including Meet Moi, Zyb, Limbo and Buongiorno’s new mobile social p...

The proposal would have helped established a nationwide license in the 2,155-MHz to 2,180-MHz band, of which 25% would have been set aside for free Internet access.

mobiThinking is pretty pleased (even a bit smug, to be honest) to kick off our series of five-minute interviews with a trio of top mobi-marketing gurus. Yahoo, Limbo and the BBC are all serious players in the mobile space, but all come at it from different, very topical angles – broadcast, search and social networking (we put each into context below). But the true test of a thought-leader is...

Mobile entertainment community Limbo has released their Mobile Advertising Report for Q3 2008. This study shows a huge growth in the number of US consumers who recall mobile internet advertising: an increase of over 50% compared to Q4 2007. Download the study.

In the wake of Nokia's outright purchase of Symbian and the formation of the Symbian Foundation, it has left other Symbian-based organizations, such as UIQ, in limbo. UIQ's board met last week, and, given the uncertain future facing the ...

Mobile advertising awareness grew by a third in the US over the last nine months. Research by mobile social network Limbo and research firm GfK concludes that the economic slowdown is promoting brands to divert budgets to cost-effective direct marketing channels and that mobile media is benefiting from this. The key findings were: · Nearly four out of ten Americans with a phone (104 million...

Text message marketing in particular, and mobile marketing in general, is making a bigger impact on American consumers. The Mobile Advertising Report, put out jointly by research agency GfK Technology and mobile social network Limbo yesterday, said that “four out of 10 Americans with a cell phone, 104 million, recall seeing advertising on the device between

Limbo and Gfk Technologya released their latest joint Mobile Advertising Report (MAR). The third quarter report reveals that mobile advertising awareness grew 33 percent in nine months against a backdrop of six percent growth in cell phone usage. This suggests an increased allocation of advertising dollars to mobile formats through the first nine months of the year. "In economic slowdowns, adverti...