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Articles tagged with: Text Messages and Text Messaging
Study shows texting while driving can be deadly
A new study confirms what most people already know: sending text messages and driving are a potentially lethal combination. Twenty-one teens using a driving simulator while sending text messages or searching their MP3s slowed down, wove in an out of their lanes, and, in some cases, ran over pedestrians, according to a study presented to the Pediatric Academic Societies. more
Related Tags: driving, hands-free, ran, mp3, danger, school,
CTIA Reports US Mobile Data Revenues Jumped 39% in 2008
The US trade body, the CTIA has published the findings of its semi-annual industry survey, which includes numerous positive metrics on the industry's continued growth and popularity. In particular, wireless revenues showed impressive year-to year gains, as wireless data service revenues for the year 2008 rose to more than $32 billion. This represents a 39% increase over 2007, when data revenues totaled $23.2 billion. Wireless data revenues for 2008 amounted to nearly 22% of all wireless service revenues, and represent what consumers spend on non-voice services. more
Related Tags: mms, ict, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, ctia, life, connect,
The Gap in Call Quality Performance among US Mobile Networks Narrows
As the wireless services industry becomes more competitive, the gap in call quality performance between the highest- and lowest-ranked carriers is smaller compared with previous years, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study. more
Related Tags: sprint-nextel, voicemail, verizon-wireless, verizon, iden, j.d.-power-and-associates, u.s.-cellular, landline, seven, sprint, j.d.-power, nextel, text-message,
Lack of Education Restricts Growth of Mobile Instant Messaging
Research released today by instant messaging vendor, ProcessOne, has revealed that 60% of mobile users would send less text messages if they were better educated about how to use mobile instant messaging (IM) services. Despite many more of today's mobile handsets having IM capability only 35% of the users surveyed currently used mobile IM with text messaging remaining the dominant communications medium. more
Related Tags: ict, instant-messaging, mobile-im, billing, mobile-instant-messaging, connect, texting, UK
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, sms, rural, itu, earthquake, satellite, bomb, baghdad, health, fm-radio, aol, farmers, emergency
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
Related Tags: orange, sms, nielsen, california,
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, sms, rsa, aircraft, london, satellite, in-flight, bmi, onair, airbus, option, UK
Many children love sending and receiving text messages through their cell phones - sometimes to the great annoyance of their parents. However, a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests this technology could be used to reduce children's chances of becoming overweight or obese later in life, by helping them monitor and modify their own behaviors now. more
Related Tags: north-carolina, school, cell-phone,
More Than 100 Million Americans Viewed Mobile Ads in Q3 2008
A report from GfK, and commissioned by mobile social network website, Limbo says that mobile advertising awareness grew 33 percent in nine months against a backdrop of six percent growth in cell phone usage. This suggests an increased allocation of advertising dollars to mobile formats through the first nine months of the year. more
Related Tags: mobile-advertising, gfk, cell-phone, mobile-web,
6.5 Billion SMS's Sent Every Month in the UK
The UK's Mobile Data Association (MDA) has reported that new devices and an ever growing variety of mobile applications have driven overall mobile data growth figures in 2008. SMS growth continues to astound while MMS shows an increasing level of growth. Consumer awareness, the fact that nearly all phones now come ready configured to work with MMS and attractive tariff bundles from the Mobile Network Operators helps fuel this growth. more
Related Tags: intel, mms, sms, mobile-data, gps, mobile-internet, mobile-data-association, email, UK
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