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MobFox, one of the leading independent mobile advertising networks, has integrated with the largest Russian mobile network WapStart Plus1 to improve monetization for the Russian and CIS markets.

MobFox — one of the Europe's leading independent mobile advertising networks and the largest Russian mobile advertising network WapStart Plus1 have completed integration. This collaboration will enable WapStart partners and advertisers to reach russian audience on the MobFox publisher sites and applications.

Spb Software announces the release of the WAP version of its flagship mobile solution SPB TV.

SPB TV is already available on iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and WebOS smartphones. SPB Software now extends the mobile TV solution to feature phone users, offering 3G customers a free mobile IP TV solution with the state-of-the-art TV-like user experience. Mobile phone owners, no matter where they are, can now get easy and instant access to over a 150 subscription-free TV channels from more than 20 countries, using SPB TV on their phones.

Russian WiMAX operator Yota said on Friday that it is to switch to LTE technology in a significant blow to the WiMAX camp. Reuters reports that Yota plans to spend US$100 million rolling out LTE networks in five Russian cities in 2010, while total investment is estimated at up to US$2 billion. It plans to launch LTE in Moscow and Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg at the end of 2011.

i-Free has redesigned the social utility, Vshkole.ru, and created its mobile version, which comes with a unique GPS capability.

Launched in February 2010, Vshkole.ru (www.vshkole.ru) came as a natural segue to the TV series, School, on Channel One. The social utility is for the fans of the series and for all those who want to know what school life is like for modern schoolchildren.

Spb Software House announces the release of SPB TV for webOS. This is the very first application from SPB Software for this eye candy Linux-based mobile operating system. SPB TV is a mobile IPTV viewer with TV-like usability, designed for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world.

With the arrival of SPB TV for webOS, SPB Software expands the list of supported platforms (including also Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian).

Spb Software, a leading mobile applications and games developer announces the release of SPB TV for iPhone which is becoming SPB Software's flagship application for this enormously popular mobile platform. SPB TV for iPhone is a freeware mobile IPTV viewer with TV-like usability, created for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world.

Opera Software today announced that MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, will now provide a co-branded version of the Opera Mini browser for its subscribers, who will be able to download it on their mobile phones at mini.opera.com. Subscribers of MTS will get access to a customized Opera Mini start page when they download the browser on their mobile phones.

The start page will have default bookmarks which give MTS subscribers quick and easy access to music, videos and games as well as giving users the opportunity to purchase content directly from the browser.

Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Ivar van Dijk presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference “Driving scale through bundling: Strategies for delivering mobile entertainment”.

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We'd like to share the video of Antti Viitanen presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference "What’s next for mobile data?".

Antti Viitanen is director of Digia company. Antti Viitanen is responsible for Digia's international products. Before joining Digia, Antti has worked for 10 years in mobile operator & mobile service industries and 10 years in media industry. He worked for AlmaMedia, Yahoo! Mobile, TeliaSonera and RealNetworks occupying various management positions.


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Out There Media, the international leader in Mobile Advertising, announces the signing of a partnership agreement with MTS, a leading mobile operator in Ukraine with a customer base of 17.74 million mobile subscribers and a 32% market share. The agreement enables MTS to offer targeted Mobile Advertising, through Mobucks™, the multi-channel Mobile Advertising marketplace technology developed by Out There Media. Out There Media is also responsible for monetization, sales, business development and operations support, within the partnership agreement. It is estimated that Out There Media now has access to more than 40 million mobile phones in Ukraine, which corresponds to over 80% of the country’s total mobile subscriber population.