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Articles tagged with: Sms and Mobile Web
Facebook Buys Mobile Messaging Platform - May Undercut SMS Services
Social networking website, Facebook has brought the mobile messaging software vendor, Beluga for an undisclosed amount, in a move which could suggest that Facebook is looking for cheaper alternatives to plain text messaging for some of its mobile services. more
Related Tags: facebook, beluga, mobile-messaging, j2me
US Teens quadruple use of mobile data
If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it's probably because on average they're sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month. That's more than six per every hour they're awake - an 8 percent jump from last year. Using recent data from monthly cell phone bills of more than 60,000 mobile subscribers as well as survey data from over 3,000 teens, The Nielsen Company analyzed mobile usage data among teens in the United States for the second quarter of 2010 (April 2010 - June 2010). more
Related Tags: text-messaging, apps, cell-phone, texting,
P2P mobile messaging to reach $106bn by 2014 - but revenues to decline in some sectors
Mobile messaging revenues are set for measured growth over the next five years, as market forces take effect. sms, MMS, mobile email and IM traffic volumes will continue their inexorable rise, but the IP evolution is resulting in disruptive business models, increased competition from the Web and commoditisation of established services. more
Related Tags: mms, mobile-messaging, juniper-research, mobile-email, p2p-, social-networking, smartphone, intel, , eu, voip, ovi, vas, billing, mda, email, africa
Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many
Analytics firm, comScore has reported that the number of people in the USA using their mobile device to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. more
Related Tags: iphone, social-networking, analytics, smartphone, samsung, smartphones, comscore, lg, mobile-internet, maps
UK Mobile Web Slowly Trudges Forward
The fact that mobile Web users in the UK visit so few sites is evidence that the mobile Web still offers a very limited range of useful content - says a report from eMarketer. There are not many worthwhile mobile Websites to visit, and the user experience is not yet compelling enough to support long sessions browsing via mobile. more
Related Tags: social-networking, mobile-content, barcode, UK
Mobile phone manufacturers are 'losing their touch' according to customers
..s are just too fiddly." Reviewers offered the following criticisms of current touchscreen phones: "Touchscreen is a little hard to use if your fingers are not slender and pointy.""The 'virtual' keyboards are rubbish, takes more
Related Tags: m1, sony-ericsson, 3g, nokia, iphone, samsung, eu, apple, ericsson, touchscreen, touch-screen, omnia, storm, email, music
Third of iPhone Owners Used a Location Based Service in Q4 2008
US based mobile social network site, Limbo and GfK Technology have published a Mobile Advertising Report (MAR), which reveals that iPhone users are more than twice as likely as non-iPhone users to browse the mobile Web and more than three times as likely to use a location-based service (LBS) or a location-based social network. more
Related Tags: iphone, mobile-data, lbs, mobile-advertising, gfk-technology, seven, gfk,
Mobile Social Networking Driving Growth of the Mobile Internet in Europe
comScore reports that social networking is drawing new users into the mobile Web. In November, 34 percent of mobile phone owners in Western Europe who visited social networking sites accessed social media exclusive of all other mobile Web content. more
Related Tags: social-networking, comscore, mobile-internet, Germany
Half of Brits Have Not Changed Phone Usage Patterns in Past 5 Years
Voice and text remain the ¢â‚¬Ëœkiller' applications worldwide as mobile phone users across the globe admit to using their devices for the same things that they did in 2003. Research commissioned by telecom application connectivity specialist AppTrigger also showed that despite advances in mobile phone functionality and the launch of devices such as Apple's iPhone, almost a third (30%) of Americans and Canadians and more than half of UK adults (57%) insist that the way in which they use their mobiles has not changed for five years. more
Related Tags: iphone, arpu, text-messaging, apple, apple, gps, voicemail, globe, UK
Bango reports four-fold increase in WAP billing in the USA
In the last three months, mobile billing vendor, Bango says that it has seen a four-fold increase in the number of WAP transactions in the USA, as content providers choose to sell their content using its mobile billing relationships with AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Virgin Mobile. This reflects a shift in the way mobile content is sold in the US with WAP billing gaining momentum as the industry realizes the mobile web delivers a superior and safer consumer experience. more
Related Tags: bango, sprint-nextel, virgin-mobile, premium-sms, sprint, nextel, billing, mobile-billing, wap, music, virgin,
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