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According to SMS experts Acision, mobile phone users sent 43 billion text messages to wish their loved ones a happy New Year – of which more than 23 billion were successfully processed through Acision’s systems.
To put numbers in a perspective, Acision said that global SMS traffic over the 2007/2008 New Year period increased by 30% compared to the same period last year.
As expected, the growth was particularly strong in India, where people sent over a billion text messages. The Philippines retained its title as the SMS capital of the world, though. 50 million strong subscribers managed to send 1.39 billion text messages! Suddenly that “200 SMS per day girl” article doesn’t sound that weird, does it? 
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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