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Articles tagged with: Mms and Mobile Internet
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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Samsung Shows Off Touch Screen WiMAX Phone for the US Market
Samsung Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of its WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the Samsung Mondi. The touch screen Mondi, which takes its name from the Latin word for "world," is designed for use with the Clearwire WiMAX network. more
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Time to invest in mobile messaging, say operators worldwide
Airwide Solutions, has published the results of a study - which was conducted by the independent analyst house, Direct2Mobile - which found that mobile operators believe SMS will become the enabler that underpins next generation advanced services with all the operators surveyed claiming that they are seeking to use the investment they have made in developing their mobile messaging infrastructure in order to introduce new value-added services. more
Related Tags: sim, mobile-messaging, sms, social-networking, arpu, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, play, wap
China's Mobile Services Market Continues Strong Growth
China's CCID Consulting has reported that in Q3 2008, China's mobile value-added services maintained rapid development. The Olympic Games brought about more telecom services, but without benefiting carriers significantly. After years of rapid development, China's mobile value-added services industry needs a breakthrough to support its development in the future. more
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6.5 Billion SMS's Sent Every Month in the UK
The UK's Mobile Data Association (MDA) has reported that new devices and an ever growing variety of mobile applications have driven overall mobile data growth figures in 2008. SMS growth continues to astound while mms shows an increasing level of growth. Consumer awareness, the fact that nearly all phones now come ready configured to work with mms and attractive tariff bundles from the Mobile Network Operators helps fuel this growth. more
Related Tags: intel, sms, mobile-data, text-messaging, gps, text-messages, mobile-data-association, UK
German 3G Penetration Rate to Reach 60% by 2012
A report from Goldmedia says that 3G penetration rates will reach 60% in Germany by 2012 and revenues from data services on mobile devices, not including those from SMS and mms, are expected to more than triple to Euro 5.7bn by 2012 from Euro 1.6bn in 2007. more
Related Tags: sms, arpu, mobile-advertising, mobile-music, Germany
Brands set to treble spend on mobile marketing by 2013
Major brands are looking to invest heavily in mobile marketing over the next five years according to an independent survey of large brands in the financial services, retail and manufacturing sectors commissioned by UK based mobile operator, Telefonica O2. more
Related Tags: sms, o2, telefonica, text-messages, UK
Democrats More Mobile Savy than Republicans
A survey by Nielsen Mobile with a US election theme has found that overall, 62% of Democrats are data users who use one or more data service on their mobile phone - compared to 55% of Republicans. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, ringtone, nielsen, mobile-video, text-message, cnn, cnn, USA
Mobile Advertising Worth $12 Billion by 2011 - report
Telecom carriers around the world are turning their attention to advertising as a potential source of revenue, according to Gartner. The research firm forecasts that the worldwide mobile advertising market alone will be worth over US$12 billion by 2011 but advised carriers that they will need to rise to some key challenges if they are to realize their advertising ambitions. more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, sms, analytics, privacy, rcom, gartner, compete, mobile-advertising
UK Sees 25% Jump in Mobile Internet Use Over Past 12 Months
The UK based Mobile Data Association (MDA) has published its latest quarterly data report on mobile phone usage across the UK. The report covers activity from January - May 2008 for Text Messaging (SMS), Mobile Internet (MI) and Picture and Video Messaging (mms) and identifies new trends in the way people are increasingly relying on their mobile phones. more
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