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Has RIM's BlackBerry app strategy failed? - Mobile Marketer - Manufacturers
Explore Article Mobile Marketer (4 hours, 19 min ago)
Although BlackBerry is the most widely used smartphone system in the United States, with 43 percent of the market, its application strategy seems to have failed. Research in Motion's BlackBerry App World is significantly less crowded than Apple’s App Store. As of the beginning of this year, there were around 150,000 applications in iTunes, whereas BlackBerry App World had between 10,000 and 15,000 applications and Android was slightly higher, but in the same ballpark. There is not too much going
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SMS vs. barcodes in the mobile charity arena
Explore Article gomonews.com (9 hours, 44 min ago) SMS
Here's an interesting one - GoMo News published a piece yesterday on how 2d barcodes are getting into the mobile charity space. Mobile giving has become much more high-profile this year, since it was so useful in Haiti. Since we published the story yesterday, we've been in contact with Canadian barcode provider Mobio - which feels there's a lot to be said for using barcodes instead of SMS when it comes to giving.
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American Airlines expands mobile boarding passes to 19 airports
Explore Article Mobile Marketer (20 hours, 42 min ago)
American Airlines has expanded its bar code-enabled mobile boarding passes to 19 additional airports to provide consumers a simpler traveling process.
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Tiger Text, SMS erasing application goes international
Explore Article textually.org (23 hours, 5 min ago) Smartphones , SMS , Americas , EMEA
Following the huge success in the US of the launch of TigerText, an iPhone app that enables people erase text messages after they have been sent, the app is now available Internationally: in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, and Canada. [via Samaa] Previously: - TigerText: an iPhone app that sends SMS that won't linger (Read Full Article)
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Target follows up on its mobile coupon promise
Explore Article gomonews.com (Mar 11 2010)
Back in early February, GoMo News reported that massive retail chain Target planned on launching a loyalty coupon system for mobile devices (see our report here). And now Target has followed through, and the service is live.
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Don't Go for the Fool's Gold in Mobile. There is Real Gold for you
Explore Article Communities Dominate Brands (Mar 11 2010) Mobile Applications , Operator Services , Smartphones , SMS
I have been monitoring several discussion streams on Twitter and the blogs and it hit me that many technologists are now pursuing opportunities that are fool's gold. These opportunities shine real bright, alluringly inviting investors to waste resources trying to... (Read Full Article)
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Ric O’Barry's SMS shoutout at the Oscars more than doubles opt-ins
Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Mar 10 2010)
At Sunday’s Oscars, Ric O’Barry held up a sign with the mobile call-to-action text DOLPHIN to 44144 during “The Cove” acceptance speech for Best Documentary.
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Smartphones are booming, but is there room for all the players? - FierceWireless
Explore Article FierceWireless (Mar 10 2010)
It has become painfully clear that smartphones are where the growth is in the handset market. Evidence of this is seemingly everywhere: IDC reports the converged mobile device market (translation:... Read more >> (Read Full Article)
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Making the most of 4G networks - FierceWireless
Explore Article FierceWireless (Mar 10 2010)
It's no longer a question of which technology U.S. wireless carriers will use for their next-generation network technology, but a question of when they'll use it. With the exception of Clearwire and... Read more >> (Read Full Article)
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AT&T "Txtng & Drivng ... It Can Wait" campaign
Explore Article textually.org (Mar 10 2010) SMS
AT&T's "Txtng & Drivng ... It Can Wait" campaign features parents of young texting-and-driving victims and the final text messages the young drivers received just before they died. The campaign's theme: "No text is worth dying over." AT&T, which serves about 85 million wireless customers, is the second communications company to enter the fray against texting while driving. Verizon Wireless launched its national "Don't Text and Drive" campaign last year. [via USA Today] (Read Full Article)
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Local Mobile Coupons: Analog Analytics Pushes Publisher Solution
Explore Article BIA/Kelsey Blog (Mar 9 2010)
Coupons are hot in a down economy, and printable online coupons –and even mobile coupons –are gaining share in the coupons business. But local SMBs aren’t always in on the game, as coupon sites frequently gravitate towards one stop national accounts. Now, Analog Analytics, a San Diego based vendor, is pushing a clever mobile solution that [...] (Read Full Article)
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Twitter by voice: mobile social network Bubbly gets celebrity users
Explore Article gomonews.com (Mar 9 2010)
GoMo News covered the launch of a new voice-powered mobile social network in India in early February. Modeled on Twitter, "Bubbly" allows users to record and send short voice recordings to all of their followers. Two weeks after launch, the creators of the service are claiming over 500,000 users, and a growing portfolio of Bollywood stars. (Read Full Article)
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Mobile Web access of Facebook, Twitter posts triple-digit growth: comScore - Mobile Marketer - Research
Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Mar 9 2010)
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Juicing Up the Networks | Wireless Week
Explore Article Wireless Week (Mar 9 2010) Operator Services
iers are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to soaring demand for mobile data, and they’re going to need a quiver full of arrows to address the issue. It’s no secret that operators’ networks are or will be strained by the massive volumes of data coursing through them. What’s less clear is what they’re going to do about it.
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The Rise of the Smartphone and Need for Secure Open OS | Wireless Week
Explore Article Wireless Week (Mar 9 2010) Operator Services
An InStat survey shows that despite the downturn in the economy, the smartphone segment of the mobile phone market is growing rapidly. According to the survey, total smartphone sales are expected to reach 412 million units in 2014. As a percentage of overall handset market, smartphones are expected to account for more than 25 percent, according to ABI Research.
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Mobile Ad Net Todacell Raises Additional $1 Million For Global Expansion
Explore Article mocoNews (Mar 9 2010)
Smartphone ad network Todacell has added another $1 million in funding to an existing $1 million round the Tel Aviv-based company raised back in June. Israeli VC AfterDox, which provided the last $1 million, also ponied up the same amount this time as well. In addition to the $2 million total funding from AfterDox, which is comprised of current and former execs from mobile tech company Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), Todacell has also received $350,000 seed funding from the Fore Group when it first opened its doors nearly three years ago. (Read Full Article)
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Mobile data roaming? Visibility is the order of the day.
Explore Article gomonews.com (Mar 9 2010) Operator Services
As of the first of this month, mobile operators must now cap the usage of mobile data for roaming customers. This is thanks to new EU regulations that are intended to protect customers from bill shock and unseen charges. But just cutting people off isn't enough, according to mobile service provider Redknee - operators needs to start providing more transparency and control to roamers.
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Edward Hospital makes ER more efficient with mobile
Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Mar 8 2010) SMS
Edward Hospital patients can now find out Emergency Room wait times via their mobile device, making the ER's operations more efficient.
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For Your Eyes Only - the three levels of customer behavior based data
Explore Article Communities Dominate Brands (Mar 8 2010) SMS
I had a lot of good discussion based on last week's blog story about our digital leash. I discussed how classic 20th century marketing research data concepts like 'demographic' data is becoming useless when compared with far more powerful 21st... (Read Full Article)
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NRF makes use of mobile at conference to poll attendees
Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Mar 7 2010) Mobile Marketing
Knotice provided the mobile polling services for the National Retail Federation’s Inaugural Retail Innovation & Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco.
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More on Geofencing and Location-Based Messaging
Explore Article MobHappy (Mar 6 2010) Mobile Marketing , SMS
I got a couple of responses in via email to my earlier post on geofence-triggered mobile ads. Matt Silk, SVP of mobile messaging company Waterfall Mobile took an interest in the post, as his company just announced a deal with WaveMarket to add location functionality to its messaging platform. We did a short interview via [...] (Read Full Article)
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Anti-Pakistan SMS campaign launched in India
Explore Article textually.org (Mar 6 2010) SMS
The Indian government has reportedly launched a SMS campaign to discourage its people from making calls to Pakistan, reports the Daily Times. According to reports, since Jan 21, 2010 a text message is being received on the cell phones in India to exercise extra care while calling anyone in Pakistan. Whenever a call is made to Pakistan, the caller receives a text message, “You just made a call to ISD Code 0092 (Pakistan’s international dialling code). We urge you to exercise caution while calling unknown number and sharing personal details as it can be misused”. (Read Full Article)
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Mobile Marketing To The Masses
Explore Article Free Press Release Distribution (Mar 6 2010) Mobile Marketing , Mobile Security , SMS , Americas
You better run over and jump on Howie's new mobile training AND grab his report while there are still available. The server is being hit pretty hard right now and I don't know how much longer Howie will keep this can of worms open. ready to receive ... (Read Full Article)
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Report: Global ARPU Falls | Wireless Week
Explore Article Wireless Week (Mar 5 2010) Operator Services
According to a report by ABI Research, mobile end-user ARPUs dropped between 6 percent to 9 percent globally, year-over-year in the third quarter of 2009. India, the world's second-largest market in terms of subscribers, saw ARPUs dropping more than 10 percent year-over-year in the same period, as new operators and the introduction of per-second billing put heavy downward pressure on voice revenues (Read Full Article)
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