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, [...]
The Wall Street Journal will begin charging consumers as much as $2 a week to access its news coverage via mobile device.
Rupert Murdoch, CEO of parent firm News Corp., said it will impose mobile fees within the next month or two. Murdoch did say that subscribers to the Journal’s print edition would only be charged $1 a [...]
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The other month Sysomos identified that 5% of Twitter users account for the vast majority of activity, which would put Twitter’s active user base at around 2.5 million (60% in the US), as opposed to the 50 million odd registered accounts.
This chart that I picked up via Cheap Talk and Michael Nielsen confirms [...]
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 [...]
When you are in an agency pitch it’s almost impossible not to use the ‘f’ word – Facebook. It almost makes my heart sink as it can seem like ticking the ‘and then there’s Facebook’ box, when you know there are more creative routes of getting the message out online.
But this chart shows why it [...]
A few months ago, we discussed how mobile music is evolving from ring tones to new music services. However, it’s not easy to find the right model to generate revenue in this market.
In September, the iPhone app Spotify was launched to the Apple app store, allowing users to access music playlists on their phone as part of the [...]
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 [...]
According to the latest global Broadband Quality Study, three Asian countries – South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong – are world leaders in providing top quality consumer broadband services.
The Study is conducted by the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics; sponsored by Cisco. To [...]
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 [...]
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