WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

For those of you who didn't get chance to write down the number to text message  Barack Obama after viewing the Barack Obama / Joe Biden infomercial video, (30 minute / half hour ad) TV special this Wednesday evening in primetime, we have the number for you.

To text the Barack Obama Campaign:

Text the word VOTE to 62262 (OBAMA) to receive text messages from the campaign.

Twitterers should note that if you go to http://twitter.com/barackobama you can see where he is was appearing.  Directly after viewing the TV show, we checked Obama out on Twitter which had a link to a live videocast of Obama speaking in Florida along with President Bill Clinton.

Here are some other mobile stories about the Obama campaign:

• US Mobile phone web surfers are much more likely to support Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama.
• There is an Obama iPhone application.
• Nielsen Mobile reported that mobile media was slightly more popular with Democrats than Republicans, as of Q2 2008.
• Pew Research noticed that election polls are landline biased.
• Nielsen Mobile estimates that 2.9 million US mobile subscribers received a text message from the Obama campaign announcing his running mate.
• You can reach the Obama mobile site byTexting SITE To 62262 or Go to http://m.barackobama.com on your mobile phone.
• The Obama website offers free ringtones.
• Obama won the Virgin Wireless election poll and the CTIA Wireless election poll.