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by Jason Giacchino on January 25, 2010
Never let it be said that the wireless industry isn't a cutthroat operation. The latest word coming in is that Motorola has issue with Research in Motion (RIM; maker of the popular Blackberry line...
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by Jason Giacchino on January 15, 2010
Never let it be said that nothing good comes from Americans' love of texting. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile USA came up with a unique method to raise money for Haitian earthquake relie...
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by leo on February 20, 2008
Contrary to what many geeks believe, the adoption of converged mobile devices like smartphones and the Motorola DEXT remains very low. According to a study by In-Stat among US business people, users...
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by leo on October 6, 2007
In the end, safety is more important than any cutting edge technology...
According to Telegraph, the public outcry over safety has prompted the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to continue to ban ...
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by leo on October 2, 2007
It's a good time to stop talking about emerging mobile market trends and lousy customer service provided by our mobile carriers. It's now a good time to start talking about the heart-warming s...
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by leo on September 24, 2007
Are you experiencing some sort of separation anxiety or panic attacks if don't have your mobile phone with you? Are compulsively tinkering with the different mobile features that most people don&#...
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by tom on July 24, 2007
Carnival of the Mobilists number 83 has arrived, hosted on Golden Swamp.Emerging from the GoldenSwamp is Carnival of the Mobilists 83 in full Swing at Hogwarts. The Epilogue in the final Harry Potter ...
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by tom on June 25, 2007
Textually has word of plans by the Russian government to introduce an authentication service for Vodka.By sending the Serial number of the bottle to a designated short code, they will get a response b...
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by tom on June 7, 2007
Mobile Social Networking as a concept is continuing to grow in Europe, and the announcement by Blue Lion that they have secured what is being reported as several million Euro in first round investment...
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by leo on June 5, 2007
The Carnival of the Mobilists #76 is up at Twofones. My personal favorites are posts about Symbian Guru's discussion on GooglePhones and SmallDoses' Why Carriers need to listen to Application ...
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by leo on June 4, 2007
According to the latest report of JupiterResearch, the growth of teen and tween segments will easily dramatically the total US population. Consequently, the next big battle to increase mobile subscrip...
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by leo on May 19, 2007
The business world will never ever underestimate the power of blogs again. The recent "mistake" of Engadget about delayed launch of iPhone knocked $4 billion off Apple's market capitaliz...
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by leo on May 16, 2007
This time it's hosted by Xellular Identity. My personal pick is Tim Trent's Dovetailing SMS Marketing and Traditional campaigns in Marketing by Permission.I'm continuing on my "wonder...
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by tom on May 15, 2007
I'll have to agree with Russell on this: Mobile Web is 19% of PC Web.In fact, 5.7 million people in the UK use the mobile web, as opposed to 30 million who access the web by PC. This means that th...
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by tom on May 9, 2007
Australia-based web services company Tigerspike has done a deal with the UK-based publisher DMGT to provide a mobile social service around their free newspaper The Metro. The site will allow Metro rea...
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by leo on May 8, 2007
Cashing in on the aging population in Canada, rogers wireless has launched a "talking cellphone" in the form of Nokia 6682RVI, powered by screen reading software called Nuance TALKS. This is...
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by leo on May 8, 2007
Despite the ongoing discussions to reduce mobile roaming charges by 70%, a new study reveals that 37% of mobile users feel cheated by high roaming charges nonetheless. Worst, almost half of mobile use...
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by tom on May 7, 2007
I blame the long weekend here in the UK for missing this: Carnival of the Mobilists 72 is up at 3Lib.Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 72, bounced on from last week at the slightly oddly nam...
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by tom on May 7, 2007
Is up over at Dorian Porter's blog.A pleasure to be hosting the 71st Carnival, which must mean it has been at least a year since I hosted last. Congratulations to the great people who have been ma...
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by Scott on May 1, 2007
The New York Times has a story today about mobile social networking applications - particularly focusing on the new hot thing, Twitter, as well as Jaiku, social image site Radar, and Kyte. While the a...
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by tom on April 30, 2007
As many of you will know, for the past 9 months or so I have been working hard on the Pitch Mobile social network, a mobile service that takes the best of sites like Myspace, Flikr and Youtube and mas...
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by leo on April 25, 2007
Recognized as a powerhouse brand in the airline industry, JetBlue is once again displaying its innovative flair. According to Financial Times, JetBlue plans to provide text messaging services during f...
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by tom on April 24, 2007
Wow, the Carnival of the Mobilists has hit 70, and is hosted at the Mobile Opportunity Blog. Check it out!
Via MoPocket.
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by leo on April 23, 2007
Given the growing atrocities at campus and the increasing importance of mobile phones as depicted in the latest tragedy at Virginia Tech, an automated notification company called MIR3 has decided to o...
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by tom on March 29, 2007
The Times is reporting that Orange UK are about to finalise a deal which will see Orange users able to access their Bebo accounts from their mobiles.The tie-up - Bebo's first with a mobile operato...
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by tom on March 23, 2007
Moblog UK have announced a deal to provide a mobile community in support of a Channel 4 program called the Big Art Project.The TV series 'Big Art Project' will be the culmination of a year lon...
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by tom on March 23, 2007
The next Swedish Beers, a mobile industry event held occasionally in London, has been moved from April 5 to April 11 (a Wednesday). I'm planning on attending, so if you're in the area, drop by...
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by tom on March 20, 2007
As someone who works in the mobile web industry and looks on with envy at the handsets and services available elsewhere, I don't find the headline statement that shocking. According to research by...
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by tom on March 20, 2007
Rome City Council has implemented an initiative to allow the city's residents to 'search' the city's 35 public libraries via SMS. The service will return the location of a book, video ...
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by tom on March 2, 2007
David Beers is hosting this week's Carnival of the Mobilists.
I'd love to host a carnival here, but with my workload (and the fact I lost the email about it...) I don't know if I'm go...
