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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

More than 100 million U.S. subscribers view mobile ads in Q3

Mobile advertising awareness grew 33 percent in the first nine months of 2008 against a backdrop of six percent growth in mobile phone usage--indicating increasing spending on mobile advertising

Bell Mobility debuts content access controls

Canadian operator Bell Mobility and its youth-centric Solo Mobile subsidiary announced the introduction of a content access control solution enabling parents to limit their children's access to

NTT DoCoMo outlines new mobile directions

Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo announced it will shift the direction of its business and focus on personalization of services as well as the development of converged services, with an emphasis

Survey: Half of top websites not optimized for mobile

Half of Nielsen Online's top 20 most trafficked websites are not optimized for mobile devices, despite the fact that mobile web users now account for an average of 5 percent of all site visitors,

Millennial Media enhances mobile brand-impact targeting

Mobile advertising firm Millennial Media announced the introduction of enhanced brand-impact survey targeting capabilities enabling third-party digital marketing research companies to conduct brand

MasterCard Over-the-Air Provisioning Service launches

Financial services giant MasterCard Worldwide announced the launch of its MasterCard Over-the-Air Provisioning Service, a program enabling issuers to personalize cardholders' mobile devices via

Flixwagon integrates with Nokia Ovi

Mobile video solutions provider Flixwagon announced its integration with Nokia's Share on Ovi media sharing service, enabling users who stream live video from their mobile handsets to automatically

Omnicom Group intros mobile ad consultancy

Advertising and marketing services group Omnicom announced the launch of Mobile Behavior, a global consultancy promising more than 5,000 clients in 100-plus countries insight into consumers' mobile

AT&T expands Napster Mobile

AT&T and digital music service provider Napster announced the Napster Mobile music download service is now available to more than 13 million of the operator's subscribers, expanding across more

Is mobile data facing a downturn?

It's Halloween--what better time to chew on the frightening future of mobile data revenues? Sure, life is sweet right now: Last week, AT&T posted third quarter earnings of $3.2 billion, with