Articles tagged with: Text Messages and Mobile Messaging

Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn

2009 will undoubtedly be a tough year for many global economies. However, despite uncertain forecasts, messaging company, Acision believes that the changing economic landscape will present many revenue opportunities for service providers. Based on the 2008/2009 New Year SMS figures alone, Acision predicts messaging and its associated revenues will continue to soar globally despite the economic downturn.  more

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Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn

Mobile messaging vendor, Airwide Solutions has published the results of an independent study on the use of mobile messaging across the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The results prove that despite warnings of turmoil throughout the global economy, growth in mobile messaging shows no signs of slowing.  more

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Mobile Messaging Numbers Continue to Skyrocket

VeriSign has announced another record-breaking quarter for mobile messaging, based on the latest quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by the company's Messaging and Mobile Media division.  more

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Fun Text Goes Live On 3 UK Handsets

Graphical messaging firm, Fun Text says that it has secured a deal with Hutchison 3G UK (3) for its handset-based messaging application to be installed on a range of 3's mobile phones. Under the deal, 3UK customers will be able to access Fun Text's rich media messaging capabilities direct from the messaging menu of their phone, alongside traditional alternatives such as SMS and MMS.  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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Anon SMS for Sending Crime Tips to the Police

In collaboration with the City of Boston and the Boston Police Department, Hill Holliday has announced the unveiling of an anonymous text message tip line for law enforcement in Boston. more

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SMS traffic surges 20% to 8.4bn messages in 2006

The volume of short message service (SMS) traffic in Brazil surged 20% to 8.4bn messages in 2006 compared to 7.0bn in 2005, newspaper Gazeta Mercantil reported, citing estimates from mobile messaging solution supplier Okto. more

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Mobile Messaging for UK Business to Top GBP1 Billion

..n an American market size of around US$4 billion for business use of text-messages.Such projections indicate that once established, SMS will remain the business communication medium of choice for the foreseeable future, fending off competition from m more

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Skype Offers SMS Sending

The UK based mobile messaging firm, mBlox says it has been selected by Skype to help power its new Skype SMS service. By connecting to mBlox's mobile message delivery platform, Skype SMS lets people send text messages from their computer to mobile phones across the world. Skype has rolled out the offering to nearly 200 countries worldwide. more

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Cellcom Signs American SMS Interconnection

Mobile 365 says that it has signed an agreement with Cellcom Israel. Delivering more than two billion messages monthly, Mobile 365 leads the world in the global delivery and settlement of mobile messaging and data services, including SMS, MMS, and WAP. more

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