Think e-mail is dead? Think again. Research released today finds that the rate at which online consumers are increasing email usage is more than double the rate for emerging media like social media and text messaging,
Featured in the ExactTarget 2009 Email Utilization Whitepaper, the research found a positive correlation among consumer usage of email, [...]
Online banking is steadily growing in popularity among Canadians at these of other forms of banking, according to Synovate’s latest retail banking survey.
Only 17.6% of Canadian personal banking customers used automated telephone banking – which does not involve a live telephone banking representative – during the past six months ending in August 2009, compared with [...]
Worldwide mobile service revenues stood at USD 912.1 billion at the end of 2008; outperforming the respective revenues generated by the pharmaceutical, IT hardware and semiconductor sectors, according to the Worldwide Mobile Industry Handbook 2009-2014. While software and services generated more revenue than mobile services, mobile surpassed this sector in terms of year-on-year growth, and [...]
More than half of the country’s collective workforce (51%) is mobile on any given day but most companies have no idea how much it costs them. Those are among the findings of the 2009 Total Employee Mobility Benchmarking Report, released today by Runzheimer International. The annual report was developed through interviews with executives from 90 [...]
Google and Verizon Wireless announced today that two mobile phones running Google’s Android mobile operating system will launch on Verizon’s network by the end of the year, and said that other Android-based devices beyond phones, would follow in the near future..
Verizon Wireless and Google plan to co-develop several Android-based devices that will be pre-loaded with [...]
Skype today announced a new business funded click-to-call product and a strategic partnership with European Directories that will turn online search for businesses into calls for businesses.
Skype’s business funded click-to-call delivers great value and convenience by making it easier and free for consumers who are using Skype to call local businesses they search for anywhere [...]
Microsoft rolled out a a new line of Windows phones around the world today that are available in a broad range of styles and prices. With a Windows phone, users can navigate their phone with the touch of a finger and browse the Internet on a mobile browser. They can also connect to two new [...]
More than half (54 percent) of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed recently said their firms do not allow employees to visit social networking sites for any reason while at work.
The survey was developed by Robert Half Technology, a leading provider of information technology (IT) professionals on a project and full-time basis, and conducted by an [...]
Marketers don’t make changes to their products based on customer feedback, even though monitoring customer feedback is among the most common business uses of social media, according to nearly 70 percent of marketers in a Social Media Survey conducted on behalf of PRWeek and MS&L by PRWeek and CA Walker.
The top three business uses of [...]
Amazon launched the Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS) today, providing developers, merchants and distributors of mobile applications an easy way to process payments from mobile devices and extend Amazon’s 1-Click checkout experience to their customers. Amazon MPS enables tens of millions of Amazon customers to use the existing payment and shipping information in their [...]
Mobile internet usage by Americans rose a whopping 34% between July 2008 and July 2009, according to new Nielsen study reported by Mediaweek. Some 56.9 million Americans–roughly one-quarter of the 225 million U.S. mobile phone subscribers–are mobile web users compared to last year’s July figure of 42.5 million.
While mobile internet penetration is growing quickly, it [...]
Sally Potter’s Rage has just become the first full-length feature film to debut exclusively on mobile phones. The film has an all-star cast that includes Jude Law, Judi Densch,and Steve Buscemi tells the behind-the scenes story of a catwalk murder at a New York fashion house through a series of intimate interviews, as if shot [...]
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