With the US economy faltering and affecting the global economy, gadget sales are likely to take a big hit this holiday shopping season. While there’s no doubt that retailers will see a bump in gadget sales, they’re unlikely to see the booming sales figures of years past. A recent survey indicates that consumers are least…
Salvation Army to launch SMS fundraising campaign
Atlanta-area Salvation Army is introducing a program to let donors give five bucks to the charitable organization via SMS. Beginning in two weeks, mobile users in the Atlanta area can text message “TSA” (which is an acronym of “The Salvation Army”) to 90999 and a $5 donation will be added to their phone bill. Salvation…
Sony Ericsson marketing rocks! Ivanovic and Dementieva play tennis on a desert island
To mark the start of the prestigious Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, the Swedish-Japanese handset maker along with folks from WTA organized a special match, featuring tennis beauties Ana Ivanovic and Elena Dementieva. The Serb and the Russian played on a replica tennis court, specifically built for the occasion. The match took place on Palm…
Deals: Best Buy Mobile in Canada gives away Free Wii or Xbox with select phones!
We’re livin’ in a tough economic times and in order to entice users to buy new phones, special deals are needed. Best Buy Mobile in Canada knows that hence they are launching special deals for the season. Here are few of these deals that caught my eye: Rogers BlackBerry Flip 8220 for $49.99 with a…
Panasonic to acquire Sanyo
Panasonic has apparently reached to a preliminary agreement to buy Sanyo Electric Co. and presidents of the two companies will hold a press conference on November 7th to announce details of the acquisition. The world’s largest maker of consumer electronics plans to keep the Sanyo brand, most of its employees, and make the company a…
Sony Ericsson C905 used to promote itself in a magazine ad
We know the soon-to-be-available Sony Ericsson C905 will be one of the best cameraphones once it hits the market. The Swedish-Japanese handset maker is certain their Cyber-shot baby is so great that it could be used for making a magazine ad. And that’s exactly what they did with little help of Bauer Media. The end…
Fido to rebrand as discount carrier
Rogers Wireless’ owned Fido is about to be rebranded into a discount carrier. Not that they are already expensive or something, it seems like a marketing move to convince users to stay away from the likes of Telus’ Koodo, Bell’s Solo Mobile and Virgin Mobile Canada. That being said, Fido is about to slash its…
Heading to Le Web ’08 in December!
I’m glad to report I’ll be heading to Paris in December for the annual Le Web conference. It’s a two-day conference, which as you may know is the number 1 Internet event in Europe. And as everything goes mobile nowadays, I’m sure we’ll have a dozen of posts. Among the partners are such companies as…
Happy Halloween!
For those of you that actually care, IntoMobile would like to wish you all a happy, and fun-filled Halloween! Halloween has finally fallen on a Friday night, so you know what that means… Dogs dressed up as iPhones! (not to mention some drinking, dancing, and general debauchery)
India to have half billion mobile subscriptions in 2010
According to the latest forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media, there will be five hundred million mobile subscriptions in India by the end of September 2010. Whilst it took 13 years for India to gain its first 250 million mobile subscriptions, Informa forecasts that the country’s second 250 million subscribers will be added over a…