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70% of respondents used their mobile phones to access information through Internet search engines last year, reports ABI research from data in surveys in 2007 and 2008. That represents a substantial 14% increase over 2007. The consumption of mobile data services, including search, has steadily increased year over year as indicated by the use of email and web from a mobile phone.
That jump in mobile search usage is nearly double the increase in users who said they accessed mobile websites generally. "Mobile search represents a utility for information anytime and anywhere," says senior analyst Jeff Orr. "With a few keywords, one can quickly identify movie times, the discography of a musical artist, recommendations for a local eatery and so much more."
Some types of content accessed via mobile phones rose in popularity
from 2007 to 2008. These included news, game downloads, music
downloads, and especially video downloads. A significantly lower
percentage in 2008 reported downloading a ringtone than the prior year,
while the interest in location information, social networking and
sports remained about the same.
Mobile photo and
video-sharing iTookThisOnMyPhone.com will offer a free co-branded version for Cellular South customers.
Cellular South customers with BlackBerry Pearl and Curve smartphones and HTC 6800, HTC Touch 6900, and HTC Touch Diamond smartphones can save their mobile photos to their own, password-protected website hosted by iTookThisOnMyPhone.com. Images can be managed directly on a smartphone or online, where users can share their favorite photos and videos with friends, colleagues and family members.
Verizon Wireless and Photobucket are offering a mobile service that allows customers to upload photos to Photobucket album.
Once the accounts are connected, the application instantly uploads photos already saved on the phone to the user's Photobucket account. The Photobucket Mobile Uploader then automatically sends any future photos directly to the same Photobucket account.
Adobe Photoshop.com members can
use ShoZu service to upload photos
from more than 350 different handsets to Photoshop.com accounts.
ShoZu's service allows Adobe Photoshop.com users to take advantage of
support for additional handsets that include Apple iPhone, Apple iPod
touch, Motorola RAZR2, a range of phones including Nokia 5310 and Nokia
6301, and BlackBerryPearlT.
With the ShoZu application downloaded to the handset free of charge, Photoshop.com users can transfer full-resolution photos with accompanying titles and descriptions from the phone to their Photoshop.com account with a few clicks. There is no need to open a mobile browser; interrupt phone calls, text messaging or camera use while images are transferring; or start over in the event of a dropped connection.
JuiceCaster has teamed with Photobuckett o enable JuiceCaster users to instantly post mobile videos and picture messages from their mobile phones directly to their Photobucket account.
In the coming weeks, Photobucket will be a featured channel on JuiceCaster's online flash player, which can be embedded on a number of Websites, including Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, and any website that allows a user to embed a flash player. Through the JuiceCaster flash player, users will always be able to view their recent Photobucket media.
Alltel Wireless has teamed with Ontela to bring their customers PhotoCopter, a service that saves every camera phone picture customers snap to their home computers and favorite web photo albums.
The PhotoCopter service is exclusively available to Alltel customers with the Motorola V3m, V3a, V9m and ROKR for $2.99/month, providing customers with unlimited picture transfer to their PC, email address, and web photo albums including Photobucket, Flickr, Blogger, and Snapfish.
The PhotoCopter service addresses a widespread problem for camera phone owners: it is often difficult to get pictures off of a camera phone. On a typical phone model, it requires 100 keystrokes to get ten pictures transferred to a PC. While a recent Ontela study reported that 93 percent of camera phone users want to save their pictures to their home computer, only 24 percent of camera phone users can actually do it.
