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Articles tagged with: Text Messages and Sms
Train Driver Accused of Sending SMS Just Before Crash
A Boston subway trolley driver was indicted Wednesday on allegations that he was sending a text message when the car he was operating plowed into another train, injuring more than 50 people. more
Over 40% of Americans Use Mobile Phones in the Toilet
A survey carried out by iGR indicates that just over 42 percent of U.S. consumers use their mobile phones to make calls while in restrooms. The same percentage sends text messages while in restrooms. Restaurants are also popular places to use mobile phones – 70 percent of the consumers surveyed have made calls on their mobile phones in a restaurant while eating, and 73 percent have sent text messages while eating in a restaurant. more
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Verizon Wireless Launches Ringback Tones for Business Users
Ringback tones, a mainstay for savvy consumers to customize their mobile phones, have made their way to business culture after US network, Verizon Wireless announced the availability of Business Ringback Tones to let organizations replace the generic ring callers hear when contacting a wireless business number with a customized message. more
Related Tags: tim, verizon-wireless, ovi, verizon, iden, ringback-tones, ringback-tone, USA
Passenger In-Flight Mobile Use Exceeds 40% on Malaysia Airlines
Passengers on Malaysia Airlines are proving some of the world's most enthusiastic users of in-flight mobiles as they embrace the AeroMobile service. On some flights, passenger adoption has exceeded 40%. Data devices such as Blackberry are proving popular, with data traffic on some flights exceeding 2MB, the equivalent of 40 Blackberry users sending and receiving email. more
Related Tags: roaming, rsa, privacy, ovi, blackberry, inmarsat, in-flight, Malaysia
Europe Votes to Reduce Roaming SMS and Mobile Data Costs
Yesterday evening the European Parliament, through a vote in its Industry Committee, gave strong support to the European Commission's proposals to reduce consumer roaming charges for sending text messages and downloading data in the EU. The Commission proposed in September 2008 to make sure that consumers in the EU do not have to pay more than €0.11 per roamed SMS in the EU (excluding VAT) - a proposal endorsed yesterday by the Parliament's lead Committee on the new roaming legislation. At present, SMS roaming charges in the EU are on average €0.28 per roamed SMS and can go up to over €0.80 in some countries. more
Related Tags: european-commission, eu, viviane-reding, roaming, billing
Mobile as Media Platform in the Global South
African peasants paint their mobile phone number over their front doors. Indian slum dwellers buy SIM cards to use on friends' handsets. Chinese students spend three months' allowance on a phone they can use to surf the web. Once almost the exclusive domain of rich countries, the mobile revolution has swept through the developing world. An estimated 3.8 billion people, or half the world's population, own a mobile, and most of the growth is taking place in the global South. more
Related Tags: sim-card, text-messaging, rural, itu, earthquake, satellite, bomb
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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Austria Tests New NFC Based Mobile Ticketing Service
Mobilkom austria says that it has developed an NFC service in cooperation with the Austrian railway operator, ÖBB for mobile ticketing in pre-selling conditions. The new chip-based NFC application is based on the interoperable international standard VDV-KA (Association of German Transport Undertakings - Core Application) and has been integrated into the mobilkom austria mobile ticketing platform. more
Related Tags: sim-card, nokia, nfc, rsa, battery, telekom, railway, tickets, Austria
Californian Girl Sent Over 14,500 Text Messages in December
A 13-year old girl in California sent 484 text messages every day in December - an average of one message every 2 minutes during the waking hours. The father, Greg Hardesty told the New York Post his 440-page mobile phone bill revealed his daughter Reina had sent an astonishing 14,528 text messages. more
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UK Airline Tests SMS Service on London-Moscow Flights
UK based airline, BMI has announced that it is to start trials of in-flight text messaging from mobile phones on flights between London and Moscow. The service, which is being supplied by OnAir, is being trialled for six months on a single Airbus A320 aircraft operating between Heathrow and Moscow. more
Related Tags: base-station, text-messaging, rsa, aircraft, london, satellite, in-flight, bmi, onair, UK