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Biography for Jason Ankeny

Jason Ankeny is the executive editor of FierceMobileContent and FierceDeveloper as well as a regular contributor to Entrepreneur magazine and the website All Music Guide. He previously served as senior editor of Telephony and its sister publication Wireless Review--additional credits include efforts for publications including Rolling Stone, Wax Poetics and No Depression along with liner notes for a number of album releases. He lives in Chicago and may be reached via email at jankeny@fiercemarkets.com.

Articles by Jason Ankeny

ATSC approves mobile DTV candidate standard

International nonprofit standards organization the Advanced Television Systems Committee announced its approval of the Mobile Digital Television specification as a Candidate Standard. The Mobile DTV

EU to introduce mobile data pricing cap in July

As anticipated, European Union telecoms chiefs last week officially endorsed a plan introduced by EU Telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding to establish new mobile data retail price caps. The

iPhone ads up

Assessing the iPhone's impact on mobile advertising spending growth. Article

Virgin Mobile UK inks search exclusive with Yahoo

Virgin Mobile UK announced it will feature mobile web search services powered exclusively by Yahoo when its new, enhanced mobile portal goes live on Dec. 8. Yahoo oneSearch promises Virgin

Alltel teams with mFoundry for mobile banking

Alltel Wireless announced an agreement with mFoundry to introduce the Alltel Wallet, a new solution that leverages the mobile applications provider's extensible mobile wallet platform to offer

MySpace tops AOL's 2008 mobile search countdown

MySpace is the leading mobile search term of 2008 according to web services giant AOL's annual countdown of the year's top mobile, web and video queries. AOL--which determines rankings according to

Study: El Paso tops in U.S. mobile messaging use

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, 57 percent of mobile subscribers ages 18 and over send and receive text messages--the highest percentage in the U.S.--according to a new consumer study

EU ministers poised to endorse mobile data pricing cap

European Union telecommunications ministers are poised to endorse a proposal limiting prices on cross-border text messaging and mobile web browsing, according to a copy of the plan obtained by the

Apple's truthiness in advertising

Why the Advertising Standards Authority banned a commercial promoting iPhone 3G network speeds. Article

MediaFLO USA whips up Food Network mobile channel

Qualcomm's mobile broadcast unit MediaFLO USA announced a partnership with lifestyle media giant Scripps Networks to launch a new Food Network programming effort available via AT&T Mobile TV. The