BLOGGER: GAYLE RINOT Did you know that “naughty” texting (also known as “sexting”) has changed the way we flirt? Or that the idea of instant messaging was invented while eating a pizza? These are two of ten astounding facts about the humble SMS whose technology has remained pretty much the same for the past 20 [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK AT&T’s decision to join T-Mobile and offer carrier billing in the US for Android Market (Google’s app store) should come as no surprise. As Michal Harris noted in a blog here late last year, the service providers’ market has fragmented, with over-the-top players, niche app vendors and expanding retailers muscling in on [...]
BLOGGER: ANDY WESTON Back before mobile phones got ’smart’, operators developed multi-billion dollar businesses based on apps and content that had nothing to do with messaging, calling or social networks. The ringtone, wallpaper and java applications market was worth $3 billion back in 2006. And long before the iPhone and the App Store, over 100 [...]
BLOGGER: AMNON EKSTEIN So powerful is the Apple brand these days that the whole world sits up and takes notice whenever Steve Jobs does or says pretty much anything. Most announcements usually herald the arrival of their newest seriously cool product (most recently, the iPhone 4 and the iPad), or the launch of yet another [...]
By Stephen Krajewski Back at Mobile World Congress again after a two-year break, and it was easy to notice a dramatic change in the event’s focus compared to previous years: everything now seemed to be about putting anything you could possibly think of on a mobile device. Serious apps, silly apps, and those apps “you never [...]
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