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Articles tagged with: Social Networking
High Use of Digital Cameras for Recording Video Footage
According to a new report from the NPD Group, digital cameras are doing double duty. More than half of all recent digital camera buyers reported using the video feature of their cameras, led by those under 30 with a penchant for social networking. more
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Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
Related Tags: android, google, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, samsung, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, rim, personal, symbian, smart, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android, churn, os
Cell Phones Are Helping Kids Learn in the Classroom
Educators, policymakers and wireless industry leaders joined together last week at the Mobile Learning Conference 2009 (MLC09) in Washington, D.C. to discuss the promising future of educational technology in America and the key role the application of cellular technology and devices can play in helping kids learn in the classroom. more
Related Tags: smartphone, qualcomm, smartphones, mobile-broadband, north-carolina, play, university-of-michigan, michigan, mobile-learning, students, true, television,
Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
Related Tags: android, sony-ericsson, t-mobile, 3g, windows-mobile, nokia, sim, iphone, smartphone, samsung, motorola, eu, skype, 3-uk, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, smartphones, wind, open-handset-alliance, ericsson, idc, lg, blackberry, compete, personal, touchscreen, sony, oem, inq1, windows, sanjay-jha, chipset, windows-live, storm, music, global-mobile, barcelona, mobile-world-congress
Twitter Support for 2-Way SMS Returns to Canada
Bell Canada has announced that Bell Mobility will be the first wireless carrier to resume Canadians full SMS support for interacting with the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Last November, Twitter stopped supporting 2-way SMS traffic, citing the high costs of sending the replies back to the handsets. more
Related Tags: sms, twitter, facebook, andrew, bell-mobility, bell, Canada
Mobile entertainment industry confident in face of economic downturn
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has launched its first quarterly Business Confidence Index (BCI) for the US$32 billion global mobile entertainment industry. It reveals that the industry is confident it will continue to grow despite the economic downturn, with MEF members predicting an average revenue growth of 27% in 2009. more
Related Tags: ict, mobile-entertainment-forum, hotspots, mef, kpmg, global-mobile
Telenor Luanches Online Backup Facility for Camera Phone Photos
Telenor Norway has launched a service that offers an online backup service for photos and videos taken with mobile phones - and also to share them with other online social networking websites. more
Related Tags: sim, telenor, personal, backup, Norway
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, mms, mobile-messaging, sms, arpu, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, mobile-internet, play, wap, airwide-solutions
Ericsson Launches Pixl8r and Social Media Portal
Ericsson has announced the launch of an social networking portfolio for mobile network operators, the Pixl8r initiative and the Social Media Portal. The technologies together offer simplified sharing of user-generated content between friends across diverse networks. more
Related Tags: sim, mms, sms, xl, ericsson, personal, churn
Nokia in Talks with Facebook Over Handset Integration
Internet social networking website, Facebook is reported to be in talks with a number of mobile phone manufacturers to more tightly embed access to its services within the phone menus. The Wall Street Journal also noted that Facebook is in close talks at the moment with Nokia on this topic. more
Related Tags: nokia, wall-street-journal, ovi, facebook, presence, option
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