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Articles tagged with: Instant Messaging and Text Messaging
Mobile Internet, multimedia and mapping capture 40% of smartphone face time
Hannu Verkasalo, who has the public examination of his doctoral dissertation at Helsinki University of Technology on April 17th, says that "the usage of new smartphone applications, including the mobile Internet, games, multimedia and map applications, has been increasing among smartphone users and reaches already 40% of total face time". However, most of the usage is still based on voice and text messaging. more
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Survey finds smartphones transforming mobile lifestyles of college students
Once reserved for busy business executives, smartphones are now being incorporated into the mobile lifestyle of college students, says new research from Ball State University. A recent survey of about 300 college students found that 27 percent own a smartphone as compared to the national average of 19 percent for working adults. more
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Lack of Education Restricts Growth of Mobile Instant Messaging
Research released today by instant messaging vendor, ProcessOne, has revealed that 60% of mobile users would send less text messages if they were better educated about how to use mobile instant messaging (IM) services. Despite many more of today's mobile handsets having IM capability only 35% of the users surveyed currently used mobile IM with text messaging remaining the dominant communications medium. more
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New-Generation Workers Want Technology Their Way
Millennial generation students and employees (those aged 14 to 27) expect to use their own technology and mobile devices for work and are increasingly choosing their place of employment based on how accommodating companies are to their personal technology preferences, according to a survey released today by Accenture. In addition, more than half (60%) of Millennials are either unaware of their companiesÃ' information technology (IT) policies or are not inclined to follow them. more
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Txt Crimes, Sex Crimes and Murder - The Science of Forensic Linguistics
Text and instant messaging may soon cease to be an anonymous method of communication as advances in forensic linguistic research make it possible to identify the sender and also predict the gender and age of the author with some degree of success. more
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E-Mail Marketing Affected by SMS and Social Networking Services
JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business, has found that rising popularity of social networking sites and other forms of communication including text messaging and cell phone use are beginning to impact the effectiveness of e-mail marketing, particularly the numbers of consumers that say promotional messages inspired purchases. more
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European Mobile Instant Messaging To Triple In The Next Six Years
Mobile instant messaging (IM) adoption in Europe will grow from 8 percent (26.7 million subscribers) in 2007 to 24 percent (80 million subscribers) by 2013, according to a new study by Forrester Research. Forrester's mobile IM forecast is based on a survey of 22,000 consumers across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. more
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LogicaCMG Expects North American Messaging Surge
LogicaCMG says that expects formidable messaging growth in North America and points to a number of indications that the region is on the verge of a surge in text messaging volumes. Based on both analyst and its own research, LogicaCMG is predicting that North American text messaging volumes will grow as much as 50 per cent in 2007 - a significant increase over previous years. more
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Technology Has Tremendous Impact on How Teens Communicate
American teens now live in a world in which the Internet, cell phones, text messaging and other technology dominate their communication and are an integral part of life as they understand it. more
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Subscribers Switching Carriers to Gain Better Network Coverage
ComScore Networks has released a comprehensive report on the behavior and attitudes of US wireless phone subscribers. The first in a two-part series on the wireless industry, this report is based on a survey of U.S. consumers who use a wireless phone and analyzes consumers' satisfaction with wireless carriers, carrier switching behavior and usage of wireless features that go beyond voice communication, including wireless Internet. more
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