January 2009 Archives
Johnsonville Sausage & Coleman Grill Mobile SuperBowl Contest from Air2Web
Air2Web is deploying a text-to-win mobile marketing campaign during the 2009 Super Bowl for Johnsonville Sausage.The Super Bowl is the most watched television event of the year, and Johnsonville Sausage is capitalizing on the event's high level of visibility for their first foray into mobile. To en…
Palm Pre Video Shows Single-Handed Operation
Peter Skillman the Vice President of Design at Palm shows off the the small form factor, big display and one handed-navigation, of the Palm Pre at CES. The video shows some interesting functions of the Palm Pre. The Palm Pre has a vibrate switch and power button. There's easy-access to a…
Helio Ocean 2 in Red – Ready for Sale on February 12
Helio Ocean 2 details have been revealed by Mobile Crunch. They confirm that the Helio Ocean 2 dual slider phone will be coming over 3 weeks earlier than the Britney Spears concert preview and will launching on Helio.com on February 12. It comes in a "limited-edition" Virgin Mobile fred in time for …
Wi-Fi Wanted and Preferred by Smartphone Users, Says Devicescape
A new report by Devicescape Wi-Fi by Decipher, Inc, Wi-Fi users have high expectations, like smartphones, and want Wi-Fi in their handsets.Here's what the survey found: An overwhelming number of Wi-Fi users expect Wi-Fi while on the road (91%).Most respondents want citywide Wi-Fi (84%) and, surp…
BlackBerry Storm Costs More to Make Than iPhone 3G & Roams More
The BlackBerry Storm 9530 has a combined materials and manufacturing cost of $202.89, according to iSuppli. The BlackBerry Storm matches up with the iPhone 3G very well in terms of attributes and functionality. Both phones combine wireless voice communications with a range of other convergence featu…
Traditional Media Loses to Mobile Media, Says Oliver Wyman
New media companies are not recouping all of that lost value to traditional media, according to Oliver Wyman's 2009 State of the Industry Report. Instead, market value is flowing to other sectors. For media companies, 2008 was a very bad year. The sector lost 47% of its market value in 2008, to $409…
2 Trillion Texts-a-Day Globally, Says In-Stat
A report from In-Stat finds the most profitable data service is still text messaging. Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) technologies provide potentially endless revenue streams for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). In-Stat found the following: Users are sen…
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