Executives from Verizon Wireless are revealing next year’s plan to allow banner ad placement on news, sports, weather, and other Internet sites that users access on Verizon phones. The development is a substantive and symbolic advance toward the widespread appearance of marketing messages on the smallest of screens. Advertisers have been increasing the amount they […]
According to a post on Cleveland Leader, Google is planning to join the mobile phone market with its own device. Apparently, they are in talks with Orange, French mobile phone maker. The expectations are that the phone will feature many Google applications or services like mobile gmail, map services, and not to forget mobile advertisement. […]
Cingular Wireless announced today that it would offer MySpace.com on its phones. The new service will cost $2.99 per month and it will have the following features: Read and respond to MySpace e-mail Upload photos directly from the cell phone View and search for friends from their handsets Update blog entries Cingular follows steps of […]
Cingular Wireless will increase the cost for sending and receiving text messages by 50%. Staring January 21st, 2007 SMS users will pay a new price of 15 cents per message. Cingular is following Sprint’s price increase earlier this year. The pricing change only affects customers who are not on a messaging plan and they prefer […]
According to Reuters, South Korea is trying to control mobile phone usage amongst teenagers. Up to this point teens were ringing up large phone bills and parents had no way to control them. “My daughter’s phone bill always causes me stress,” Cho said. “I scold her all the time over it and threaten to cut […]
According to research published by Gartner, worldwide phone sales increased by 21.5 percent in the third quarter. Total sales amounted to 251 million units sold. The large jump in sales is correlated to the strong growth of China and India. Based on these findings Gartner increased mobile-phone sales forecast for the year to 986 million […]
After YouTube was aquired by Google last month, for a handsome 1.65 billion dollars, YouTube continues evaluation of content deals to enhance its customer’s experience. A report in the Wall Street Journal revealed that Verizon Communications is in ‘advanced talks’ to bring its online content to other mediums, such as mobile handsets and cable TV. […]
Palm Treo 750 was approved by the FCC to be released in the US. Cingular Wireless is ready to release the GSM version of the Treo 700w. Treo 750 is outfitted with tri-band UMTS/HSDPA, which means it can operate on both 2G and 3G networks. The cellphone will be released in two versions, one with […]
After launching mobile text ads earlier last month, Yahoo is planning to launch graphical mobile ads later this week. Yahoo is hoping to beat Google in the mobile ad market by getting in early in the game. In the last quarter, Yahoo attracted 4.3 million mobile surfers, where Google was slightly ahead with 5.2 million […]
Verizon Wireless and GoTV Networks, Inc. signed a deal today for GoTV to deliver sports content to Verizon’s mobile subscribers. “Some of the more popular content we develop includes comedy, sports, and music news like undiscovered artists and special interviews,” Bluhm the CEO for the mobile television network said. “We don’t believe you need clips […]
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