Report: People Will Send More Text Messages Next Year Than This Year December 27, 2007
Posted by Eric Zeman on Information Week
Gartner took quite a leap of faith in predicting that SMS usage in 2008 will top 2007’s numbers. In fact, Gartner goes so far as to say that the number of messages will top 2.3 trillion worldwide. That’s an average of 767 messages per mobile subscriber over the course of 12 months. I think we can all do better than that.
First some facts and figures. Gartner estimates that about 1.9 trillion messages were sent this year and next year will see 20 percent growth to reach the 2.3 trillion mark. In line with increased …
Email This PostShop by phone gets new meaning December 21, 2007
Alan Brody, a 15-year-old jazz drummer and high school freshman, doesn’t have the interest or time to hang out in shopping malls. So he browses the Internet on his cellphone, using a search service that has helped him find everything from Hanukkah gifts to computer software.
Brody, of Arlington, Va., also does mobile searches for his 55-year-old mother, and would send her pictures of items he sees in stores, except Sandy Brody says she “wouldn’t know what to do with them.”
“This manages the time looking, so I don’t have to spend three hours shopping,” Brody says of the Slifter service he …
Smartphone Sales Grow 165 Percent in U.S. December 16, 2007
The inexorable march of the mobile phone continues. According to the latest survey by the NPD Group, the U.S. saw a total of $3.2 billion in third quarter sales, an impressive 47 percent surge compared to a year ago. A good portion of that growth can actually be attributed to smartphone sales too, which accounted for 11 percent of total phone sales. In fact, NPD said that the total increase for smartphones sales was 163 percent.”The mobile phone market is not only growing, it is growing smarter,” said Ross Rubin, NPD’s director of industry analysis in a Wednesday statement.
“The …
Email This PostGOMOTEXT.COM International Coverage Enhanced to over 200 Countries December 10, 2007
Dallas, TX – December 10th, 2007- GOMOTEXT.COM, a leading provider of mobile messaging and marketing solutions, today announced that they have enhanced their coverage to cover more than 200 countries across the globe.
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Email This PostMore Than One-Third Of U.S. Pre-Teens Have A Mobile Phone December 9, 2007
PRE-TEENS IN THE U.S. ARE more connected than ever before, thanks to the widespread use of mobile phones.
The Nielsen Co. released the findings of an in-depth study on the mobile media and cross-media behavior of U.S. “tweens” (ages 8-12). The report estimates that: 35% of tweens own a mobile phone, 20% of tweens have used text messaging, and 21% of tweens have used ring & answer tones.
While text-messaging and ringtones remain the most pervasive non-voice functions on the phone, other content such as downloaded wallpapers, music, games and Internet access also rank high among tweens. According to Nielsen, 5% of …
don’t 4get ur pills: Text Messaging for Health December 3, 2007
New Services Use Cellphones To Quickly Send Information; Deciding What’s Appropriate
By RACHEL ZIMMERMAN (Wall Street Journal)
Kate Hemond, a nanny who cares for six children, was considering salmon for their supper recently. Standing at the fish counter of a Whole Foods market near Boston, she pulled out her cellphone to text message a service that could tell her whether the farmed Atlantic or the wild Alaskan contained polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which are known toxic substances.
“If one fish had higher levels, we wouldn’t want to serve that to the children,” said Ms. Hemond, 24 years old.
The new text-messaging service that …
