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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.

GSMA mAgri team project on Mobile Market Information Systems (MIS) for farmers in emerging markets.

Apple has been victorious in a US International Trade Commission (ITC) patent infringement case concerning the iPhone and iPad brought against it by Samsung, reports Reuters.

The GSMA announced details of the 2013 GSMA Mobile World Congress, which will be held 25-28 February 2013 at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona.

The head of HTC China, Ray Yam (pictured), used his keynote at Mobile Asia Expo to outline the smartphone vendor’s vision to create a “new kind of ecosystem” that could sit between the ‘closed’ model of Apple and the ‘open’ model deployed on platforms such as Android and Windows Phone.

Swapps (Social Web Applications) enable the citizen approach in his/her virtual community within the context of community and collaborative model.

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.

China is set to become the world’s largest smartphone market in 2012 while Brazil and India are forecast to enter the top five markets by 2016, according to research firm IDC.

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.