Vringo Surging on Facebook IPO and New App for Nokia

Shares of Vringo VRNG are seeing much strength during Thursday's trading session after Facebook (FB) filed for its IPO yesterday, and the new version of its Facetones app for Nokia NOK phone platforms. Vringo announced it has released a new version of Facetones™ customized for the latest mobile devices released by Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones. The Facetones app is integrated with Facebook and generates an automatic, visually exciting slideshow of photos displaying your friend's face and other social content each time you communicate with that friend using your mobile device. With Vringo's latest version of Facetones™, the application is now fully optimized for Nokia's Symbian^3 operating system, including its latest Anna and Belle extensions, which were released in the second half of 2011. Currently, shares of Vringo are trading up about 31% at $1.78.