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Mobile and social media are nearly synonymous these days. Social media is powerful and interesting because mobile lets people engage in real-time.

Augmented reality will totally breakdown social barriers. It will disconnect people from physical reality and physical world taboos Like social media, augmented reality is a fairly new technology that is still being developed into tools that add some use or productivity to our lives.

Continued concern about fragmentation has led to Android losing some of its lustre for developers, according to the latest developer survey from Appcelerator and IDC – although the Google platform remains the clear number two behind Apple’s iOS.

Some 79 percent of developers said they are planning to integrate HTML5 into the mobile apps they build this year, according to a survey from developer tools company Appcelerator and IDC.

China has become a major force in the global app market, having risen to be the second largest market in terms of app sessions on iOS and Android devices, according to the latest figures from analytics firm Flurry.

Virtual Square is a new perspective on the virtuality. There are several kind of virtual entities today: virtual machines, virtual networks, virtual users, virtual servers.

The second edition of Codemotion, the event which is open to all languages and technologies will take place on 23rd and 24th March 2012 in Rome. The main innovations of Codemotion 2012 will be: two days dedicated to technical interventions and the fact that there will be two events held simultaneously in Rome and Madrid.

Brett Taylor, CTO of Facebook, today announced the company is participating in “a number of industry wide initiatives” intended to support the development of the mobile web, focusing on technology standards and payment enabling.

The startup BCNTouch and the Torres winery presents Treasure Hunt with TouchActive , a game where participants can get product information with their mobile phones and share it on social networks.

On the 27th of February and at the MWC SlashMobility launch its first product of 2012: an application called DressApp that will allow users to arrange and organize their clothes closet from their mobile.

Voxtrot is a mobile VoIP start-up founded in 2010. Voxtrot is designed to work anywhere in the world, whatever carrying network or data connection available.

The GSMA mAgri Programme works to catalyse the deployment of mobile solutions that benefit the agricultural sector in emerging markets.

NTT Solmare, a Mobile Manga service provider in Japan, provides innovative Mobile Manga service solution for all types of smartphone OS.

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, unveiled two new wireless broadband solutions for boosting capacity: the ARU (Adaptive Radio Unit) and the AtomCell, which are part of its GigaSite suite of solutions. Mobile World Congress 2012.

Informa Telecoms & Media’s senior analysts have put together the ‘top ten picks’ for this year’s Mobile World Congress.