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Global Mobile Marketing Award winners announced by MMA

The Mobile Marketing Association has announced the winners of the 7th Annual Global Mobile Marketing Awards for Innovation, Creativity and Leadership; awards that are now known (and trademarked) as The Smarties.

There are a total of 56 winners of awards designed to recognise the best mobile marketing from around the world.

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Symbian plans, spectrum trials, smartphone reliability - and much more

This week's edition of The Fonecast covers a wide range of subjects from within the mobile industry. We start with Symbian before moving on to 'white space' spectrum trials involving BT, the BBC, Samsung and Nokia. There's also time to talk about funding, favourite apps, legal action and some notable moves.

You can download this week's show from iTunes... or listen to the podcast by using the audio player on our website.

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New multi-million pound funding for Shazam

London-based mobile music recognition service Shazam has raised $32 million in new funding. The money will be used to help the company grow and develop its mobile applications.

Shazam is approaching 150 million users worldwide and is on course to achieve 250 million users within two years.

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Shazam makes its first acquisition by buying song lyric technology

Music discovery service Shazam has announced its first corporate acquisition.

Technology from California-based Tunezee is being added to the Shazam Encore app, enabling users to view song lyrics synchronised in real-time with the music they are listening to. It's currently available for more than 25,000 songs.

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Shazam Android app offers unlimited tagging, thanks to eBay

Music discovery service Shazam has updated its free Android app with unlimited tagging, thanks to sponsorship from eBay.

The free Shazam app – which had previously come with five free 'tags' per month - will be unlimited until 1st January 2012.

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