A recent report from ABI Research shows that mobile messaging growth will continue, despite the fact that global economy is slowing down. Expectations are for messaging revenues to rise from USD 150 billion in 2008 to more than USD 212 billion at a world scale by 2013. After all, the difficult economic times could just as well encourage people to start...
Bad, bad telecom operators! The European Commission found out that some phone operators legally block VoIP services over their 3G networks, all starting with their contracts. Moreover, some of the service providers have also tried to block the VoIP over Wi-Fi capabilities in some mobile phones. The EU antitrust authority started monitoring the evolution...
Qik recently announced that it’s the first live mobile streaming service to integrate with 12seconds, also know as the “video Twitter”, a popular micro-video site. Starting from yesterday, Qik users who also work with 12seconds, will be able to link their accounts to the other service. This can be easily done by accessing the “Edit...
Juniper Research conducted a Mobile Payments Study that resulted in the future showing up something like “50% of mobile payments will be done via NFC and Mobile Money Transfer by 2013″. NFC is the famous Near Field Communications technology that is featured on some handsets and will become widespread in the following years. Juniper’s...
Keeping the profile constantly updated and handling the thousands of friends in the list has never been handier. Hi5 now moves in the mobile environment, with the help of Vodafone Live. The international networking site is now available for mobile phones in 33 different languages. This makes it possible for handset users to send and receive messages,...
California’s Democratic Party recently rented a digital billboard at the Home Depot Center from LA, which will display text messages of folks sending SMS messages to the vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Have a question for Sarah Palin? Test “ASK” and your question to 69866 and you’ll see your query out in the open. Who...
Calling when on board of an airplane seems to be less of a threat than people have been told. Or at least that’s what Ryanair’s initiative shows, now that they allow passengers to place in-flight mobile calls on 14 of its 166 aircrafts. Of course, there are limitations. Only six passengers at any one time will be able to make a call. It won’t...
