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Top Five Cell Phone Makers Announce Green Rating System Title: Top Five Cell Phone Makers Announce Green Rating System
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by Jason Giacchino on November 21, 2008

The world's top five cell phone makers have launched a common energy rating system for phone chargers, in the hopes of making it easier for consumers to compare and choose the model that consumes...

 

Cell Phones as a Learning Tool Title: Cell Phones as a Learning Tool
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 8, 2008

© functoruser A number of teachers are adding cell phone features to their online classes. Today's cell phones can do more than store numbers and play games. Many students receive online class upd...

 

Verizon Rescues Deceased Wife's Voicemail Greeting Title: Verizon Rescues Deceased Wife's Voicemail Greeting
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 10, 2008

© jonrawlinsonEvery once in a while, I run across a human-interest story that's both touching and sad. It's also not often we hear of a mobile network operator doing the right thing by someone...

 

Texting Injured 6 Million Brits in 2007 Title: Texting Injured 6 Million Brits in 2007
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Filed in archive Mobile Society , Mobile Technologies by leo on March 5, 2008

Nothing is more embarrassing than having a "walk and text" injury or wounds caused by too much texting or use of mobile phones. According to Daily Star, about six million Brits were injured...

 

Mobile Phones Can Clog Traffic Flow Title: Mobile Phones Can Clog Traffic Flow
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by leo on January 2, 2008

Not only mobile phones cause accidents on the road, it will also test your patience. According to a new research by the University of Utah, motorists talking on mobile phones drive more slowly so th...

 

Teen Drivers: Time to Say Goodbye to Cellphones Title: Teen Drivers: Time to Say Goodbye to Cellphones
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by leo on August 28, 2007

The rising number of accidents caused by using mobile phones while driving plus several studies claiming teenagers as the most distracted drivers paved the way for the state Assembly to garner a 62-5 ...

 

Poor Customer Service "Killing" Wireless Users Title: Poor Customer Service "Killing" Wireless Users
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by leo on August 20, 2007

When customers start doing crazy things just to cancel their mobile phone contracts, it is very obvious that the mobile carriers are doing something really wrong. According to The Washington Post, one...

 

UK companies lose £1 million a day on misuse/abuse of company mobile phones Title: UK companies lose £1 million a day on misuse/abuse of company mobile phones
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Filed in archive Mobile Culture , Mobile Society , Mobile Technologies by leo on June 9, 2007

A new research from telecom expense management specialist, Aurora Kendrick James, reveals that about £400 million are spent annually by UK workers talking to friends and family using company mobile ph...

 

Carnival of the Mobilists #76 Title: Carnival of the Mobilists #76
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Filed in archive Mobile Community , Mobile Society , Mobile Technologies 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 ...

 

GPS Phones to Enhance Social Networking Experience Title: GPS Phones to Enhance Social Networking Experience
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Filed in archive Mobile Marketing , Mobile Society , Mobile Technologies by leo on May 19, 2007

The quest of mobile phone companies to develop more GPS-enabled handsets might even benefit different social networking Web sites. According to Reuters, global positioning chips will evolve from simpl...

 

Mobile Phone: A Conspicuous Consumption? Title: Mobile Phone: A Conspicuous Consumption?
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Filed in archive Mobile Society , Mobile Technologies by leo on April 18, 2007

This interesting video from ABC News' Sign of the Times reflects the role of mobile phones in measuring wealth and bragging our social status in this ecosystem. After all what's the use of m...

 

Donate Your Old Mobile Phones and Help Save the World Title: Donate Your Old Mobile Phones and Help Save the World
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Filed in archive Mobile Society , Mobile Technologies by leo on April 17, 2007

ReCellular, a leading recycler of mobile phones, is encouraging us to take an active part in saving the environment by simply donating our old, worn-out phones. The PR cites low consumer awareness a...

 

China Big, America Small Title: China Big, America Small
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by Scott on April 8, 2007

Cellular News reports that china mobile, that country's number one operator, recently announced that its subscriber base had hit 301 million, larger than the entire population of the United States...

 

US Customers Can Unlock Their Handsets Title: US Customers Can Unlock Their Handsets
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on November 24, 2006

The issue of locked or disabled features on handsets made available for sale in the US has been around for long time. At the beginning of 2005, reports surfaced of Verizon Wireless users suing the car...

 

Carnival of the Mobilists No. 48 Title: Carnival of the Mobilists No. 48
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by Editor on October 12, 2006

Helen Keegan is hosting Carnival of the Mobilists No. 48 over at Musings of a Mobile Marketer. Yes, I know it's Thursday and this is late, but I just crawled out from under a rock otherwise known ...

 

IM+ v3 for S60 released Title: IM+ v3 for S60 released
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on August 6, 2006

Shape Services have announced the release of IM+ version 3 for series 60 handsets. The new version of this Instant Messaging client includes seamless support for multiple conversations across multiple...

 

Emily of Textually.org Interviewed Title: Emily of Textually.org Interviewed
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on June 23, 2006

Ewan at SMS Text News has followed through with his earlier idea of interviewing people within the mobile space (and following his joke interview of Arun Sarin) with a real interview with Emily of Tex...

 

World's Most Expensive Mobile Number Title: World's Most Expensive Mobile Number
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on May 24, 2006

Whilst my image creation skills may not be the best, the picture on the left represents the most expensive mobile number ever purchased. The number was auctioned for charity in Qatar yesterday, and so...

 

Moto Goes (RED) to fight AIDS in Africa Title: Moto Goes (RED) to fight AIDS in Africa
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by Scott on May 15, 2006

Motorola has joined the unique push against AIDS in Africa devised by U2 lead singer Bono and Bobby Shriver known as (RED), an effort to create special products that feature the color used in the ribb...

 

The Rise and Rise of Mobiles in China Title: The Rise and Rise of Mobiles in China
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on April 26, 2006

Back in February we covered the increasing number of mobile handsets available in China. Now, Shanghai Daily reports that mobile handset ownership in China has topped 409 million, or 30 handsets for e...

 

Use of Mobile Devices Increasing Title: Use of Mobile Devices Increasing
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on April 20, 2006

The use of mobile devices to check email or browse the web is increasing, according to a recent study into mobile device usage by market research firm Ipsos Insight.Driving much of the growth are mobi...

 

SMS Voting to Decide Recording Contract Title: SMS Voting to Decide Recording Contract
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on April 16, 2006

GoldPocket and Boost Mobile are using SMS voting to award a recording deal with Drive-Thru Records. The contest, mtvU's Best Music on Campus, which opens on US college campuses on April 17 and run...

 

Comics go Mobile Title: Comics go Mobile
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on March 27, 2006

The BBC' Click Online has an interesting story from Japan about the rise in the use of mobile phones to read books and comics whilst on the move.Catering to the drudge of the daily commute, an ent...

 

Amricn Txt Title: Amricn Txt
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by Scott on March 4, 2006

Russell Beattie picked this up from the Economist and is all enthusiastic about what it says about growing American sophistication with mobiles. The data shows the US making some of the fastest gains...

 

MW in Japan: Keitai Culture First Hand Title: MW in Japan: Keitai Culture First Hand
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Filed in archive 3G , Device Evolution , Mobile Society , Mobile Technologies , Operators by Editor on February 26, 2006

Apologies for the lack of posts from me this week - thanks to Tom, however, the wheels kept rolling. I have been in Japan this week on a research trip, an opportunity that doesn't come around very...

 

China Tops 400,000,000 Mobile Subcribers Title: China Tops 400,000,000 Mobile Subcribers
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on February 20, 2006

Pic source: China DailyAccording to China's Ministry of Information there are now almost 400 million mobile phone subscribers in China, a rise of almsot 59 million over last year, indicating more...

 

Carnival of the Mobilists 14 Title: Carnival of the Mobilists 14
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on February 4, 2006

The latest Carnival of the Mobilists has been released, this week hosted by Daniel Taylor over on the Mobile Enterprise Weblog. This week includes coverage of some upcoming events, such as 3GSM 2006 ...

 

Carnival of the Mobilists 13 Title: Carnival of the Mobilists 13
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on January 28, 2006

Week 13 of Carnival of the Mobilists is being hosted at Blethers.com. There are quite a few new contributors this week, I'm delighted to see, so I've decided to look at them first in case you...

 

27 Million Subscribers for O2 Title: 27 Million Subscribers for O2
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by tom on January 23, 2006

O2 has recently published its final set of key performance indicators, prior to finalisation of the acquisition by Spain's Telefonica. The report shows strong growth for O2, with a 12% year on yea...

 

Sprint US Wireless User Survey Title: Sprint US Wireless User Survey
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Filed in archive Mobile Society by Scott on January 18, 2006

Sprint released its new survey of wireless users in the US today and there are a few interesting datapoints, though it is largely a marketing exercise.Sprint's key message is that mobiles are chan...


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