Well, according to a recent UK study by Professor Nada Kakabadse of Northampton University, there’s about a 33% (one-third) likelihood that you are indeed addicted to your mobile phone or similar electronic doohickey. Of 360 study participants, about one-third were suggested to be addicted to their mobile gadgets. The addiction apparently starts off as an…
MWC: alternative stats
I think this is the last 3GSM08 post (yes, still refusing to called it MWC) I am going to make, but hey hey, it’s a light-hearted one, so why not one more…. OnePointSurveys and mBlox have released their final “Alternative Congress Stats wrap-up” – for those of you not familiar, mBlox commissioned OnePointSurveys to conduct…
Juniper Research: Mobile adult video chat revenues to hit $1.5bn by 2012
Following the success of its “desktop counterpart,” mobile adult video chat is set to grow in the coming years. According to Juniper Research’s latest report titled “Mobile Adult: Subscriptions, Downloads, Video Chat & Text-Based Services 2007-2012 (Fourth Edition),” global revenues from adult video chat services are expected to rise sharply over the next five years,…
Informa: Mobile social networking revenues could reach US$52 billion by 2012
It’s kinda obvious mobile social networks are set for growth and will/want to follow the path of their “desktop predecessors.” According to Informa’s latest report entitled “Mobile Social Networking: Communities and Content on the Move,” the number of mobile social networking users exceeded 50 million, approximately 2.3% of the global mobile user population on December…
Orange look at impact of techology on football
I don’t think I’ve posted a story about Mobile and Football being related, before – there’s always a first! Apparently the Orange Future of Football Report states that technology will infiltrated the beautiful game much sooner than we think. There are a number of potentially applicable areas for mobile technology to be utilised – highlights…
SE: new interface for selected devices
Ericsson have launched the “Ericsson Multimedia Communication Suite (MCS)”, with the goal of integrating web 2.0 content feeds in to the UI. The UI will be making an appearance on select devices, such as the SE W760i End users will have access to new services from existing applications – so for example, knowing presence information…
Mobile voice volume will overtake fixed in Western Europe by mid-2008
For the first time, the volume of mobile voice calls will exceed that on traditional fixed networks in Western Europe as a whole, says global advisor on telecoms, IT and media – Analysys Research. According to them, this milestone is set to occur by the end of summer this year and is the result of…
Two-thirds of AT&T customer representatives are mis-informed
[Update] Post updated. Perhaps my original wording was a bit harsh. It’s one way or the other. A recent test conducted by the Consumers Union found that two-thirds of AT&T customer representatives either lied about AT&T’s termination fees (which are now pro-rated), or were misinformed. The group made 12 calls to AT&T and were provided…
iPhone is too hard to use?
Um, no, it’s not. In fact, the iPhone didn’t even come boxed with an instruction manual/booklet. Those Apple guys put a lot of thought into an intuitive interface, and they had the confidence to scrap the instruction book altogether. Come to think of it, maybe the lack of an instruction manual is to blame for…
Americans are un-green – less than 10% recycle old mobile phones
Shame on the lot of you. Well, not really, but it’s kind of sad to hear that less than 10% of Americans are green-savvy. Which is to say, greater than 90% of us do NOT recycle our used/old cellphones. iSuppli Corp’s consumerTrak service indicates that only 9.4% of new mobile phone buyers last quarter dropped…