More Texts Than Calls in USA December 31, 2008
2008 was the point when finally the typical U.S. mobile subscriber now sends and receives more SMS text messages than they do mobile telephone calls according to Nielsen figures.As of Q2 2008, a typical U.S. mobile subscriber sends or receives 357 text messages per month, compared to placing or receiving 204 phone calls. Though the number of calls has remained relatively steady, the number of text messages is up 450% from just two years prior. Q2 2008 was the second consecutive quarter in which the average number of text messages sent was significantly higher than the average number of phone …
Email This PostSevered cable disrupts net access December 23, 2008
Subsea cables are often damaged by ship’s anchors and seismic activity
Internet and phone communications between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have been seriously disrupted after submarine cables were severed.It is thought the FLAG FEA, SMW4, and SMW3 lines, near the Alexandria cable station in Egypt, have all been cut.A fault was also reported on the GO submarine cable 130km off Sicily.Experts warned that it may be days before the fault is fixed and said the knock on effect could have serious repercussions on regional economies.
For this to happen twice in one year, on the same …
Email This PostFastest Text Messaging While Skydiving December 22, 2008
Team of Pro Skydivers Text Message During Freefall outside Los Angeles to Give New Meaning to XTREME TEXTINGSamsung Telecommunications America, (Samsung Mobile) a leading mobile phone distributor in the U.S., attempted to establish the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Text Messaging While Skydiving.” A team of professional skydivers text messaged while freefalling from 12,000 feet outside the Los Angeles city limits at the Samsung Mobile XTREME TEXTING event. The team of 10 skydivers used a variety of Samsung Mobile messaging phones during this challenge, including the Samsung Propel(TM), Samsung Gravity(TM), Samsung Rant(TM), Samsung Alias(TM) and Samsung Messager(TM). Samsung Mobile created …
Email This PostGmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting December 15, 2008
Today’s high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13. Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have an average of about 2.4 addresses each. But if you really want to reach these students, you should forget email. Send a text message instead.
According to a new survey from a survey from eROI, which looked at a sample of 283 high school and college students from 29 states here in the U.S., one quarter of students got their first email address so they could shop online. A …
Email This PostSurgeon saves boy’s life by text December 11, 2008
David Nott volunteers for a month a year with the medical charity
A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy.Vascular surgeon David Nott helped the 16-year-old while working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Rutshuru.The boy’s left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous.Mr Nott, 52, from London, had never performed the operation but followed instructions from a colleague who had. The surgeon, who is based at Charing Cross Hospital in west London, said: “He was dying. …
Email This PostText Messaging Will Continue To Be The Darling Of Mobile Data Revenues December 9, 2008
Forget splashy video, music and games; text messaging will continue to be the “cash cow of mobile data revenues for some time to come,” according to a new report from Portio Research.
The mobile messaging market is expected rake in $130 billion in revenues by the end of the year, and is on pace to climb to $224 billion by 2013. At that level, mobile messaging will make up 60 percent of all non-voice service revenues. At least some of those increased revenues might be due to the higher price of a text message and operators’ push to encourage more bundled …
Email This PostWorshipping God Via Mobile Phone December 1, 2008
An Anglican Parish Church has joined with voice-to-text company SpinVox to change the way they reach their community: by delivering sermons directly to parishioners’ email inboxes, live.
The world’s first voice-to-text Sunday service will take place Sunday November, 30th the first Advent. It will be given by the Reverend John Kronenberg, Vicar of Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey, at St Christopher’s Church.
As he delivers his sermon to the congregation seated in the Church, his words will be automatically converted by SpinVox and sent directly to subscribers’ inboxes, in a matter of moments. 100 members of St Christopher’s church will receive the sermon …
