Alcatel-Lucent is trying to carve itself a place in the fast-growing mobile advertising space, launching a service with which agencies can buy permission-based mobile ads across multiple carriers and networks. The French telecomms vendor, historically focused on the more conservative areas of networking, is an unlikely entrant to the space, but its mobile advertising vice [...]
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Mobile messaging firm The Text Works has launched a free Shortcode search tool that enables anyone to check the availability of a specific Shortcode for use with specific mobile technologies, such as SMS, MMS, voice and video. The tool also offers information on which networks support the Shortcode, and enables users to reserve available shortcodes [...]
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BuzzCity has released the results of its Global Mobile Advertising Index for Q1 2010. The Index tracks activity across BuzzCity’s network of over 2,000 publishers worldwide. The data, gathered over the three month period from January to March, reveals a 38% increase in the number of ads served in the BuzzCity network over the previous [...]
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@thypham1 1) Pls don't display IMEI publicly. 2) There is not universal subsidy unlock code, use an online service or contact operator) in reply to thypham1 11:08:46, 2010-04-12 RT @danprimack: Union Square Ventures is hiring http://bit.ly/cbZ72D @usv Employment Posting 3.0 (social context, not just words on a page) 13:00:10, 2010-04-12 RT @Net: China's Tencent to [...]
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Package-delivery giant United Parcel Service has rolled out its UPS Mobile application for Android that lets users ship and track packages and find the nearest bricks-and-mortar location. Go to Source
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Kevan Christmas, Digital and Mobile Consultant at The Collinson Group, argues that real-time, location-based marketing via the mobile offers a new opportunity to enhance the power of loyalty programmes There has been an increasing level of interest and debate in the topic of real-time, location-based marketing, and this will only increase as Google and Facebook [...]
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Opera Software has revealed that Opera browsers are now used by more than 100 million people worldwide, with 50 million users on Windows, Mac and Linux computers, and another 50 million using Opera Mini on mobile phones, plus a smaller number using Opera browsers on game consoles, TVs and set-top boxes.“Opera’s record growth shows that [...]
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—Mobile DTV: At NAB, the Open Mobile Video Coalition provided an update on its efforts to roll-out national broadcast TV to mobile devices To date, it says 45 stations have started mobile broadcasts with Washington D.C. kicking off on May 3 and two stations in Detroit following. The association also says it has gained the [...]
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Fast food giant McDonald’s is promoting its new Dollar Menu at breakfast via a rich-media mobile advertising campaign. Go to Source
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» A 20-minute hands-on look with the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Kin. [MobileTechWorld] » Eric Schmidt explains what Google’s problem really is. [paidContent.org] » The fives achievements and mistakes of Palm (NSDQ: PALM), including the disaster of its first device, Zoomer. [Pocket-lint] » Will Shazam’s mobile success translate to the iPad? [Bits] » A much-needed iPad [...]
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