The telegraph reports that more than 35% of children own a mobile by the time they are eight, and 75% of all 7 to 15 year olds now own a mobile device. The survey also highlights how the mobile phone is driving financial awareness. Children as young as seven are downloading ringtones and other content forcing them to get to grips with money. It also found children offering to do chores in exchange for cash to purchase content. Given the current economic climate maybe we’ve got something to learn for this younger financially savvy generation.
Ok so MMS isn’t fully available on the iPhone yet, but at the weekend I downloaded a decent MMS application called MMS Photo Messaging.
continue reading MMS on the iPhone
Mobile phone networks reported a surge in text messages as people kept in contact with friends and family.
continue reading Snow causes surge in text messaging
With significant traditional advertisers reporting declining revenue in core advertising sectors it is interesting to see how many previously sceptical players are now seriously watching the mobile channel.
continue reading Mobile Internet Advertising
British Airways is to introduce mobile phone technology on its business-class only flights between London City and JFK.
continue reading Airlines adopt mobile technology
Publisher Mike Grenville at 160 Characters has posted a round up of some of the numbers of text messages sent on New Year’s Eve that have been announced so far by various world wide operators.
continue reading New Year Texting
According to the MMA 2008 saw some significant milestones achieved for mobile as an advertising medium and are tipping it to attract a “significant” portion of media budgets by 2013. So does this mean we’ll see the eagerly awaited “year of the mobile”?
continue reading Mobile forecast to come of age
London’s Air Ambulance has introduced a text-to-donate scheme to increase donations. To make a donation, supporters send an SMS to the code LA81.
continue reading Good cause, great technology
Research by an online social network has shown that currently teenagers send an average of 10,000 texts a year, or 30 a day.
continue reading Teenagers Averaging 10,000 SMS Per Year!
Commuters in Kerala, India are now able to track any of the 30,000 private buses that ply on the state roads either via the Internet or through mobile phones.
continue reading Changing the way we travel
