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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

Gameloft implements Netsize's mPayment solution

Mobile communications and commerce solutions provider Netsize announced an agreement with game developer and publisher Gameloft to implement its mPayment mobile payment solution, enabling consumers

Virgin Mobile USA debuts social networking efforts

Virgin Mobile USA announced a pair of new mobile social networking initiatives promising consumers deeper integration with social media and community sites. Connect, designed for Helio by Virgin

Nokia cuts mobile web services forecast

At its annual Capital Markets Day event Thursday, handset giant Nokia lowered its fourth quarter forecast for mobile device industry volumes and outlined its overall expectations for the months

Games people play (and other popular iPhone downloads)

What a difference a year makes. When Apple first counted down its annual list of most popular iPhone applications in late 2007, there was no iPhone software development kit, no App Store, no 3G data

MobiTV passes 5 million subscriber mark

Roughly four months after its managed mobile television and radio network surpassed the 4 million subscriber benchmark, MobiTV announced it now boasts more than 5 million subscribers. MobiTV is

Amazon sets up shop in the App Store

Will Amazon.com's new iPhone application reshape mobile commerce? Article

Shazam adds 2M tracks to music discovery database

Mobile music discovery provider Shazam--earlier this week named one of the 10 most downloaded iPhone applications of 2008--announced its music database has increased from six million tracks to eight

CBS Sports Mobile to broadcast SEC title game live

CBSSports.com and CBS Sports Mobile announced they will provide live streaming video of college football's SEC Championship, which pits the top-ranked University of Alabama against the surging

AT&T cutting jobs, but not in wireless

AT&T announced plans to reduce about 12,000 jobs--roughly 4 percent of its total workforce--but said it will continue to add jobs in some parts of its business, including wireless, video and

Forecast: Messaging revenues to grow to $224B by 2013

Messaging will remain the driver behind mobile data revenues for years to come, yielding an anticipated $224 billion by 2013--60 percent of combined non-voice revenues--according to a new forecast by