Twitter has added photo-sharing features to its mobile service, allowing users to edit images and enhance them with artistic filters.
In 2010 the system became available through a free mobile service, allowing people with even the most basic of handsets to quickly register their details via SMS, and be matched up with those looking for them.
The Berlin-based audio streaming and sharing platform SoundCloud has launched a new mobile service allowing users to engage in real-time with their tracks.
Unlike the on-demand offering, which lets people listen to songs on demand, the free mobile service allows people to shuffle songs in playlists.
Mobile-money services allow these small retailers to act rather like bank branches.
Psychosocial interventions Mobile outreach services allowed Pakistan's PLaCES programme to take services to communities.
"Our new mobile service will allow our readers to easily access our content and the latest breaking science news on-the-go, giving science fans more options to access information from Scientific American, which already include the Web site, blogs, podcasts, RSS feeds and the print edition".
The UK's second biggest broadband provider, Sky, has also announced plans to offer a mobile phone service, allowing it to offer its own rival "quad-play" bundle - including internet, landline phone, TV and mobile - but has not scheduled the launch until 2016.
In Finland and Sweden, one of the hottest applications is a mobile banking service allowing people to conduct nearly every banking transaction except withdrawing cash.
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