Articles tagged with: Social Networking and Rsa

Financial Sites Popular Among Older European Mobile Web Users

comScore has reported that financial services sites, such as those offering banking and stock trading services, are the most popular among European mobile subscribers older than 55, while teenagers are more likely to visit social networking, entertainment and even comic sites on their mobile devices. more

Related Tags: comscore, ericsson, ovi, apple, motorola, eu, samsung, lg, blackberry, mobile-internet, teenagers, oem, weather, target

Mobile advertising on social networking sites must drive two-way interaction

The publication of the new white paper by Peggy Anne Salz, highlights that in the personal world of mobile social networks, advertising that encourages two-way interaction between advertisers and consumers will be more successful than conventional "push" style banner ads. The report suggests that virtual gifting is seen by many as the starting point for cultivating this two-way conversation. more

Eight Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009 and 2010

Gartner says that it has identified eight mobile technologies that will evolve significantly through 2010, impacting short-term mobile strategies and policies. more

Location Ecosystem Still Looking for Sustainable Growth and Viable Business Model

Despite the relative success of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and industrial GPS applications, the location ecosystem has yet to reach a mature stage as it continues to encounter challenges on its way to continued profitable growth. While penetration levels of consumer telematics and LBS services remain low, the more established product categories suffer from price erosion and dwindling margin levels as evidenced by the recent financial results of PND vendor TomTom. more

As Mobile Web Usage Explodes, Full-Featured Browsers on Smartphones See Strongest Growth

One of the undisputed bright spots in 2008 has been the continued rapid growth of web usage on mobile devices. While growth of web usage is up across all mobile device classes, one of the biggest areas of growth has been smartphones. ABI Research sees this growth continuing over the next five years, with highly capable Internet browsers on smartphones expanding from 130 million in 2008 to 530 million by 2013. more

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LG to Embed Social Networking Application into Indian Handsets

RockeTalk, a provider of mobile social applications, has announced a partnership with LG Electronics India in which the RockeTalk mobile social networking application will be pre-loaded on all new LG KT610 and KF750 (Secret) mobile phone models. These LG phones, pre-loaded with RockeTalk, are already available to consumers through LG retailers in India. more

Related Tags: google, lg, lg-electronics, mobile-im, lg-mobile, India

Yankee Group Says the Mobile Internet Must Be Open

At Mobile Internet World 2008, Yankee Group released a new report that determines the success of the mobile internet depends on its ability to become a standardized open environment, like the fixed internet. The report explains how open mobile internet access will create a massive opportunity for the extension and creation of new and traditional internet applications, services, use cases and sources of information, and set off a wave of changes within the industry in the next 5 years. more

Mobile Advertising Needs to Be Unobtrusive and Measurable to Really Take-off

The shift in the choice of new media makes the mobile an appealing advertising platform and arguably, the most direct channel to reach consumers. For mobile advertising to take-off however, it needs to overcome the annoyance factor and the perception of unsolicited content, where SMS-marketing has previously failed. more

Related Tags: sms, mobile-data, rcom, personal, mobile-advertising, mobile-internet, 3, weather, coupons, wap, cagr

Teenagers are Shaping and Reshaping Their Wireless World

A generation widely defined by mobility, today's teenagers are now making demands of their mobile devices and, in doing so, redefining what mobility will be in the future, according to a US survey, published by the US trade body - the CTIA, in conjunction with Harris Interactive. more

The Six Degree of Seperation has Shrunk to Just Three

Six degrees of separation has fallen to three due to the impact of social networking and developments in technology, according to a study carried out by UK based mobile operator, O2. more

Related Tags: microsoft, o2, driving, personal, facebook, tokyo, music, texting, globe, UK

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