Archive for July, 2005
Friday, July 29th, 2005
A new report from Packaged Facts has a section which discusses the impact of technology on the youth market.
... Packaged Facts concludes (not surprisingly) that consumers aged between 15 and 24 years are the wave of the future for mobile marketing strategies using text messaging and internet on mobile ...
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
This is a must read from textually.org. Here's a sample:
Bigger than television. Bigger than the PC. Bigger than the telephone.
The cell phone's impact will be so huge because — unlike those previous technologies — it's so widespread. People in developing countries who a decade ago owned nothing more complicated than ...
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
It's not just camera phones either.
textually.org points to a study on Phys.org which indicates that cell phone radiation may affect your vision.
In a recent scientific study conducted by a team of researchers from the Technion, a possible link between microwave radiation, similar to the type found in cellular phones, and ...
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Mobile phone gamers should rejoice that they can now play games at a fixed cost. UK mobile phone users can now pay a monthly fee for unlimited access to PlayOn!'s catalog of mobile games. Much like the Napster, Rhapsody(to go), and Yahoo! music subscription models I would think that ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
MTV and Nokia have come together to promote a new magazine whose content will be solely based on readership contributions reports Moconews.
“Building on Nokia’s Lifeblog application, MTV viewers will be invited to contribute to the online magazine by sending in their mobile phone photographs with accompanying copy”. The magazine will ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
Jamster thinks they can sell the wildly popular Crazy Frog ringtone here in the US. With their media budget they probably can.
The Crazy Frog is a mix of music, sounds and a cartoon character that was created in Sweden. The creation, originally called the 'Annoying Thing,' entered the British ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Following announcements by Google and Yahoo!, AOL has come around with their own mobile search services. the AOL Mobile Web services provide mobile phone optimized WAP access to AOL's search, shopping, and directory services. To test the service simply point your cell phone's WAP browser to mobile.aolsearch.com
Here is a list ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
On average your a call from your cell phone to 411 will cost you $1.25. Mobile phone users on the road, unable to access the Internet, tend to rack up quite a hefty bill over the course of the year. Enter [AnswerBeam](http://www.answerbeam.com).
For $99.95/year, subscribers will have unlimited access to driving ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Well, it looks as if the deluge of complaints against ringtone companies is not slowing down. Yesterday in South Africa, the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) ruled that an advert for iTouch Jippii ringtones is misleading and should be withdrawn according to itWeb.co.za.
The ASA on Friday ruled that the Jippii advertisement ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
Motorola and Yahoo have hopped into bed together according to Yahoo! News.
Yahoo's services will be available on Motorola's phones, broadband-enabled products for the home and its upcoming iRadio device, which will allow users to play Internet radio stations and their own digital music.
The companies expect products resulting from ...
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