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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

2008 Year in Review: Google emerges as a mobile superpower

It always seemed a foregone conclusion that Google would assume the mantle of mobile search kingpin, but as the sheer scope of its wireless aspirations took shape throughout 2008, it's become

2008 Year in Review: Mobile reshapes social networking--and vice versa

The symbiotic relationship between social networking and mobile technology grew even deeper and more binding throughout 2008, to the point where it's increasingly difficult to determine where one

2008 Year in Review: Mobile messaging continues to surge

Mobile messaging growth continued to astound in 2008. Global messaging volume increased close to 10 percent in the third quarter alone according to Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign,

2008 Year in Review: The mobile data pendulum swings to the U.S.

For years, the United States lagged embarrassingly far behind Western Europe and the Far East in respect to mobile data adoption and innovation, but no more--thanks to a new generation of more

The year ahead: Mobile content predictions sure to go wrong

It's 2009: The end of a decade, and the end of an era for mobile entertainment. It may be a new year, but the industry remains mired in the same old slump--the energy and excitement that once

Vatican endorses iPhone application

The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications has given its official endorsement to iBreviary, a new iTunes application featuring the book of daily prayers used by priests. Developed by

Hong Kong to auction mobile TV licenses in mid-2009

Officials in Hong Kong have announced plans to auction spectrum earmarked for mobile television services. Hong Kong's Commerce & Economic Development Bureau said it will hold the auction as early

The next evolution of mobile music

Can iPhone music games rescue the recording industry? Article

Handango partners with Digital Chocolate, I-play

Smartphone content provider Handango announced new retail partnerships with mobile game publishers Digital Chocolate and I-play, bolstering its catalog of entertainment for BlackBerry and Windows

USA Today headlines new iPhone app

National daily newspaper USA Today announced the launch of a new iPhone mobile application available via Apple's App Store. According to USA Today (which has the widest circulation of any newspaper