The mobile phone is already becoming the most ubiquitous digital device across the world, and promises to reach two thirds of the world population by the end of this decade. The mobile phone is already the most popular digital device in the world in terms of frequency of use, and...
These are just a few examples of changing attitudes and patterns of mobile phone usage revealed in a recent research study. This paper outlines the potential implications that consumers' changing attitudes may have on mobile operators and handset manufacturers. It also recommends strategies that will be critical for companies looking...
Mobile/Wireless ? China's annual shipment of multimedia mobile phones is expected to hit 133 million units by 2011, about 80 percent of the country's full-year mobile phone shipment. China, the world's largest mobile phone market, is going to enter a new epoch and multimedia mobile phones will be much...
Yahoo Signs First Partners in Mobile Ad Pushmobile push adsMobile phone use basically to communicate, when we are on move. does mobile users will spend time on reading ads on mobile phone ?it is just idea , where users will get occupied with ads when they didnt get call.this idea...
When you sync your Windows Mobile phone with your PC, you're automatically getting a backup of your data. That's good, but Dashwire is better: It automatically backs up everything on your phone -- contacts, text messages, photos, videos, phone settings, and more -- to the Web, where it's accessible from any...
According to research companies, national and international press, mobile advertising and marketing is 'The next big thing', and they are hailing the mobile phone as the gateway to the next advertising promised land. Advertising on mobile devices has been a relatively tiny proportion of the marketing mix for major corporations....
Tales of mobile cell telephones igniting gasoline fumes at gas stations have circulated around the internet for the past few years. Some of the stories say the person was not using the phone but had merely laid it on the trunk of his/her car while fueling. Some of the stories...
As we've mentioned before, the internet often looks ugly when you're trying to view it through your (non-iPhone) mobile phone. But Digital Inspiration via LifeHacker has an awesome hack that will allow you to use your phone to read any site that has an rss feed. Simply point your...
In market research, reaching consumers and maintaining their interest is the greatest challenge. Can mobile offer solutions? Whether one want to understand the success of a sponsorship campaign or what consumers think about a new product or service, using the mobile phone as the research platform can give the ability...
I don't know about you, but I ride mass transit every day. Granted, it is the city of San Francisco, and it is one of the most connected cities in the country, but I'm sure the same axiom would hold across every urban area in the U.S. Until today,...
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Trouble in the mobile phone business continue to mount. Following up on disappointing results this week from both Research In Motion RIMM and Palm PALM, Sony Ericsson (SNE, ERIC) this morning said that sales and pre-tax net income in the second quarter would “continue...
The paper hypothesizes that a dominant software incumbent abuses his market power if he prejudices consumers without justification. It outlines that music and pictures stored in mobile phones may have adopted Real Networks' formats and codecs, whereas music and pictures stored in PCs adopt WMA and WMV. This inconvenience prevents...
There's a rich subtext to the recent announcement that Google and Airtel, India's largest telco, have launched a broadband portal called AirtelLive.com. In India, as in China, Japan, and many other countries, users access the Internet more from mobile phones or PDAs than they do from desktops or laptops. (That...
The Japanese live, eat and breathe their mobile phones. People use them as alarm clocks to wake them up in the morning, check email on station platforms while waiting for the train to arrive, play games or watch TeleVision TV programmes while commuting... the list goes on. Even important business...
Ron Haruni submits: According to industry reports, in five years, more than 30% of mobile phone subscribers in China will be reading books and newspapers through their phones. The combination of greater 3G adoption and a marked increase in made-for-mobile content will drive mobile entertainment revenues to almost $48 billion...
The comprehensive communication capability of a mobile phone can enable users anywhere to independently access a very wide range of communication, information and control systems and services. The provision of accessible mobile phones for people with disabilities will significantly improve their quality of life through increased range of accessible activities,...
The commercial development and expansion of mobile phone networks has led to the creation of devices combining mobile phones and personal digital assistants, which could prove invaluable in a clinical setting. This study aimed to look at how one such device compared with the current pager system in facilitating inter-professional...
Will cellular service brands eclipse the big cell phone brands? Do not hang up on Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung just yet. The article talks about the issue that the domination of the big branded device, however, is now under threat. While all the mobile phone operators were essentially selling the...
The Chinese Ministry of Information wants the world to know how connected their population is. In fact, it may not be too difficult for a country over one billion strong to report that 539.4 million Chinese now use mobile phones, which would trump the entire American adult population more than...
The aim of this paper is to explore the relation between mobile phones and fashion and how this has developed in the course of the last decade. It is important to reconstruct this path not only on the historical but also on the sociological plane, as it will enable us...
