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Articles tagged with: Mobile Email 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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Quarter of mobile phone features never discovered by users
They are becoming ever more sophisticated, yet the average mobile phone remains largely unexplored says a new study by WDSGlobal, a specialist in support and device management services for the wireless industry. more
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EU Mobile Data Market Growing Rapidly Driven By Spread of Mobile Broadband
Usage of mobile data services, which enable people to access the Internet, email and other multimedia on the move, is growing rapidly in the European Union as mobile broadband networks proliferate and prices fall. more
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Nine of 10 Americans Would Support New Laws to Ban Driving While Texting
Nine out of ten (89 percent) American adults believe that sending text messages or emails while driving is distracting, dangerous, and should be outlawed, according to a new survey commissioned by mobile messaging service Pinger and conducted by Harris Interactive. Similar numbers (91 percent) of adults thought that drivers distracted by sending text messages or mobile email were as dangerous as drivers who had a couple of drinks. more
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Mobile Office Market Will Cease to Be a Major Enterprise Driver- Leaving Few Survivors
The 451 Group believes that over the next 12-24 months the mobile office market will converge and, aside from Research In Motion (RIM) and a small number of overall survivors, will cease to be a significant direct driver of mobile deployment activity in the enterprise. 451 analysts believe the opportunity has gone (or is going), at least for the technology 'pure plays.' more
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Mobile Working Killing The Office Romance
Traditionally, the office environment has been the target of Cupid's arrow with many people meeting their partners at work, especially in the approach to the festive season. But while the rise of mobile working may well see the end of the traditional office romance, the signs are that mobile devices are in fact improving both peoples' personal and working lives. more
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Industry Seeks Successor to SMS
Wireless messaging is the most successful mainstream mobile data service to have emerged during the 30-year history of the cellular telecom industry. New research from Gartner shows that an estimated 936 billion messages were sent worldwide in 2005 via SMS. Gartner predicts this will reach 2.3 trillion by 2010. more
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Strong Global Demand for MMS and Mobile Email
Multimedia messaging (MMS) has become a popular service among mobile phone users worldwide and mobile email may have even greater potential, according to a survey commissioned by the GSM Association. More than 40% of the 3,061 consumers surveyed by Circle Research in Europe, North America and Asia regard MMS, which allows mobile phone users to swap pictures, music and video, as an indispensable service, while 38% see mobile email in the same light. more
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58 percent of US mobile subscribers do more than talk
M:Metrics has released its inaugural Benchmark Report, providing the first detailed data on the consumption of mobile content, the demographics of mobile media users and benchmarks for the performance of mobile operators in the USA market. Results from M:Metrics' primary research reveals that the market for mobile content and applications, while still young, includes the mainstream of mobile subscribers and spans gender and age groups. More than half (58%) of mobile subscribers use their handsets for something other than making phone calls. Key findings include: more
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