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Articles tagged with: Social Networking and Facebook
Using Facebook/Twitter makes People Like their Phones More
Overall satisfaction with mobile phones is considerably higher among owners who use their devices for social media activity, compared with satisfaction among owners who do not access social media platforms on their phones, according to J.D. Power and Associates. more
Related Tags: twitter, linkedin, mobile-web, qwerty, USA
More Americans Using Their Mobile Phones For Matters Of The Heart
So much for whispering sweet nothings. It seems that texting and social networking sites may be the new way to show you care-and that you don't. A recent survey of 500 Americans aged 18 and above carried out by Nokia USA, found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of them have made a date via text messaging. But it's not only for good news that they're using technology. When a relationship goes south, they turn to technology to break the news: Roughly one in every 10 (11%) of Americans have used text messaging to end a romantic relationship and 7 percent have ended a relationship via a social networking site on their mobile device. more
Related Tags: nokia, text-messaging, nokia,, texting,
Telecom executives spend an extra 10 hours a month learning (and teaching) online
At a time when companies are increasingly blocking staff from accessing social networking websites, a study run by online business networking service, MeettheBoss found that their bosses are spending an extra 10 hours a month online sharing their professional experiences and learning from their peers. more
Related Tags: meettheboss, twitter, hutchison
UK Motorists Using Twitter While Driving
The increasing functionality of mobile phone technology and growing addiction to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook are driving motorists to distraction now more than ever before, with motorists openly admitting to breaking the law by 'tweeting' whilst driving. more
Related Tags: orange, , twitter, ict, driving, tim, blackberry, mobile-internet, school, insurance, texting, UK
Social Networking Usurping Mobile Messaging as Communications Tool
Openwave Systems has published a report highlighting key mobile internet usage trends in North America, based on findings derived from its Mobile Analytics product. Strong themes that Mobile Analytics uncovered included upticks in social networking site usage suggestive of a new preferred method of communication with the potential to unseat traditional forms of messaging such as email for a particular segment of subscribers; an analysis of mobile advertising click-through rates (CTR) that showed clear advantages of targeted promotions; and the growing trend in accessing mobile classifieds via the mobile device. more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, sim, analytics, ict, tim, ovi, iden, mobile-advertising, admob, mobile-internet, play, email, mobile-analytics,
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, andrew, bell-mobility, bell, Canada
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, presence, option
Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at Ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as Facebook's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. Facebook's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, sms, twitter, ovum, ofta, yahoo, compete, text-messages, target
T-Mobile Ranks Top in Mobile Broadband Survey
T-Mobile's UK 3G/HSPA network has been judged the best in the UK in independent tests carried out by test house, P3 Solutions over the last quarter. The tests benchmark T-Mobile against its competitors by measuring customer experiences that matter most to users during peak usage hours across 16 cities throughout the UK. When measured against its competitors, T-Mobile was found on aggregate to be fastest for internet upload and download speeds as well as for web browsing and for sending and receiving emails. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, hspa, hsupa, t-mobile-uk, mobile-broadband, youtube, benchmarking, p3-solutions, testing, bbc, mobile-broadband-network, 3g-network, UK
Hutchison Whampoa Launches Handset Subsidiary
Hutchison Whampoa has launched its own mobile phone subsidiary, INQ Mobile to develop phones for its 3G networks worldwide. The company aims to launch a range of low to mid-priced handsets based largely on free operating systems, likely to be either Linux or the Google backed Android OS - and will be based on Qualcomm chips. more
Related Tags: android, google, skype, qualcomm, voip, seven, hutchison, inq-mobile, linux, os, 3g-network
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