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Adults, Cell Phones and Texting
Explore Article textually.org (17 hours, 1 minute ago)
PewResearchCenter on adults, cell phones and texting: Texting by adults has increased over the past nine months from 65% of adults sending and receiving texts in September 2009 to 72% texting in May 2010. Adults who text typically send and receive a median of 10 texts a day; teens who text send and receive a median of 50 texts per day. 5% of all adult texters send more than 200 text messages a day or more than 6,000 texts a month. Heavy adult texters -- those who send and receive more than 50 texts a day -- also tend to ...
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Climbers rescued from Mont Blanc after text message alerts
Explore Article textually.org (Aug 20 2010)
Two experienced climbers have been rescued from one of Europe’s highest mountains after raising the alarm through text messages to a friend in the UK. The Herald reports. Finn McCann and Tom Greenwood, both 23, spent the night in their sleeping bags 11,000ft up the Italian side of Mont Blanc in the Alps after being trapped by a storm on Wednesday. However, they texted the friend in their home town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, using a mobile phone that was rapidly losing its battery supply. They gave the friend details of their location and he then got in touch with the ... -
Bound Woman Uses Toes To Type Text Messages for Help After Home Invasion
Explore Article textually.org (Aug 4 2010)
Today "Good Morning America" had a story about how a woman called Amy Windom used her toes to type text messages on her laptop computer after she was tied to her bed by burglars. Watch video here. [via ABC News which aslo published a transcript of the text messages.]
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Celebrating 25 Years of SMS!
Explore Article textually.org (Aug 3 2010)
SMS Expert, Sheri Wells, talks about how text messaging got started, went viral, and took the mobile industry by surprise. It's been 25 years since the standardization of SMS (Short Message Service) was developed in 1985 by a collaborated effort between Germany and France. SMS was created by Friedhelm Hillebrand, Bernard Ghillebaert, and Oculy Silaban with the innovation behind it being short. SMS messages, commonly called text messages, are 160 characters in length. The organizations that created the standards made SMS technology freely available to the whole world. After 25 years, mobile subscribers have adopted text messaging as the new ...
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Samsung and Bebo seal deal for mobile music and LIVE shows
Explore Article gomonews.com (May 27 2009)
Bebo and Samsung Mobile UK have announced a music content partnership. The deal will see Samsung placing music on the Bebo music page, as well as sponsoring a daily music show for the social network. Most interestingly, this also marks Bebos first foray into “real world” entertainment - the two companies will be hosting a [...]Comment on Article Mentions: Samsung Technology T-Mobile
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Two location-based mobile social networking bits: Locle and The Grid
Explore Article gomonews.com (May 15 2009)
Both South Africa and Ireland have home grown news in location-based mobile social networking today. Irish company Locle is working on a service that will work on any mobile device, and South African Vodacom is introducing a location-based advertising option for it’s MoSo, The Grid. What is location-based mobile social networking? Very simply, an LBS mobile social [...]Comment on Article Mentions: Vodacom iPhone
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Reportlinker Adds Mobile Messaging & Ip Evolution: Players, Strategies ...
Explore Article Green Technology (Nov 12 2009)
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Mobile Messaging & IP Evolution: Players, Strategies & Forecasts 2009-2014 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0163738/Mobile ...Comment on Article Mentions: Airwide Solutions Technology AT&T
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O2 Lets Users Block Messages
Explore Article 160Characters Association (Sep 2 2009)
Users can block bullying messages with the O2 Ireland new Block It service using Anam Smart Services platform.
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Iran: Regime uses SMS messages to threaten people
Explore Article textually.org (Jul 27 2009)
NCR-Iran reports that the clerical regime's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) sends threatening mobile phone text messages to Iranians, threatening them that they will be “summoned and interrogated” by suppressive organs “in the event of continuing illegal gatherings and activities.”
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11.6 Percent Of European Broadband Connections Are Mobile
Explore Article mocoNews (May 28 2009)
HSPA accounted for 11.6 percent of PC broadband connections in Europe at the end of last year, according to Berg Insight—that includes "active, data-only subscriptions involving USB dongles and embedded broadband" and excludes connections via mobile phones, notes ZDNet UK. The number of people who connect to the internet via HSPA/LTE on their PCs in Europe group by 74 percent year-on-year to 14.6 million, and is predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent over the next five years to hit 70 million in 2014. The sudden spike last year is attributed to carriers cutting the ...Comment on Article Mentions: Clearwire Technology
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SMS marketing works a treat for ticket sellers and theatres
Explore Article gomonews.com (Jun 15 2009)
www.txtlocal.co.uk is a mobile marketing firm focused on SMS for both advertising and user-action. It has released figures showing that theatres and other ticket sellers have seen massive response rates to local SMS campaigns - especially when sending ticket promotions to students. Mostly in Manchester, it seems. www.txtlocal.co.uk is an opt-in service, that sends local promotions [...] -
Mobile phones help fight hunger in Kenya
Explore Article Computerworld (Aug 3 2009)
In the first relief program of its kind, mobile phones are helping a chaos-torn community get its life, and its livelihood, back.
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Emergency text system goes live
Explore Article textually.org (Sep 14 2009)
Trials are underway of a UK service allowing people to contact emergency services by text message, reports the BBC. The system is aimed at people who cannot make normal voice calls to the 999 service due to disability. The service sends the text to a voice relay assistant who then speaks the text message to the emergency service and then texts back their reply. If successful, the system would become permanent in early 2010. -
Nokia's Ovi Store Opens For Business
Explore Article mocoNews (May 26 2009)
The Ovi Store has opened for business. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today officially launched its mobile content and application store, which some analysts are calling the Finnish handset giant's "last castle", as it tries to shore up slowing handset revenues with services sales. The store is available to what the company estimates is a global audience of 50 million Nokia device owners across more than 50 of its various handset models through store.ovi.com on mobile browsers, or as a downloadable application. Customers in eight countries, including Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom, will be able to ...Comment on Article Mentions: Nokia Ovi Store Apple
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How Some UK Mobile Carriers Are Side-Stepping Apple To Sell The iPhone
Explore Article mocoNews (Oct 13 2009)
Orange and Vodafone may have broken up O2’s exclusive deal to sell the iPhone in the U.K., but now Hutchison’s 3 and T-Mobile—the last carriers left—have found a way to tap into demand for Apple’s best-seller, too. The Telegraph reports that the companies are hunting for contract-free iPhones to resell, in an attempt to keep high-end subscribers that are ready to leave for the carriers that have “legitimate” rights to sell the device. Of course, the reseller plan isn’t sanctioned by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), so the rogue carriers run the risk of permanently burning a bridge with the tech company. ...
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