
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
Macworld rumor du jour: Apple will announce a series of new licensing deals that will expand its catalog of DRM-free iTunes downloads across all four major record labels--in addition, the computing
Arabic news and information network Al Jazeera announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson to pre-install RSS content feeds on select handset models in the Middle East and North Africa. Owners of Sony
ABC News announced the launch of a free iPhone application promising users local news determined by the device's location-based technology. Alongside national and world news, the ABC News app will
Digital entertainment provider uclick announced the launch of a new mobile web application promising iPhone and iPod touch users access to its archive of more than 400,000 comic strips, single-panel
How new display technologies promise to improve device battery life.
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Hip-hop superstar Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" was the top-selling mastertone of 2008 according to Nielsen RingScan, a service of information and media firm The Nielsen Company. Sales of "Lollipop" topped
Google reiterated its earlier promises to allow developers to begin selling premium mobile applications through its Android Market virtual storefront, confirming premium Android apps will launch
The latest iPhone craze is ... flatulence?!
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It's Christmas Eve, which for decades heralded the traditional end of the holiday shopping season. That officially changes in 2008--for anyone who unwraps a new iPhone or iPod touch on Christmas
Before Apple introduced the iPhone in mid-2007, the vast majority of American consumers still considered their mobile handsets little more than a tool for voice communications--for the most part,