Souljah Boy to TellMe: Search, Listen and Obey
Machine translation from voice to text promises to be the grail of local mobile search. Michael Fitzgerald in The New York Times today highlights voice search and voice recognition software in gadgets that “Listen and Obey.” For example, with the new Vlingo app (Microsoft TellMe competitor), searchers can speak into their mobile phones send SMS [...]
New York Times Serves Content By SMS
If SMS is enough for some cellphone owners, the New York Times has news and op-ed content available for their texting pleasure. read more More: continued here new york times serves content by sms
YPA Adds Mobile to Local Search Guide
At The Kelsey Group’s Interactive Local Media 2007/Search Engine Strategies Local show today in Los Angeles, the Yellow Pages Association launched a mobile section to its Local Search Guide. The Local Search Guide provides information on Internet Yellow Pages, search engines, search tools, vertical directories, and now profiles local mobile tools including voice-based search and [...]
Net Neutrality, Now With Less Spin
Have the telecoms and cable companies just abandoned the Net Neutrality fight altogether? It used to be they staged aggressive rhetoric battles, created questionable studies, and pretended to honor Net Neutrality on their own – without legislation. Lately though, they seem to have gone radio silent about the matter and have even abandoned the so-called [...]
SMS Ads Small In U.S., Big In Europe
Close to three-quarters of Western European mobile subscribers received a short message service (SMS) advertisement in July 2007, according to M: Metrics. In its survey of mobile users in Western Europe and the U.S., M: Metrics found that U.S. SMS ad response rates increased 12 percent in July, even though SMS ad volume was down. [...]
Nokia Purchases Enpocket
Nokia hopes to improve its mobile business with a definitive agreement to acquire Enpocket, which offers cell phone marketing technology and services to advertisers. Financial details of the purchase were not released. "Nokia has already announced its intention to be a leading company in consumer Internet services and we believe that mobile advertising will be [...]
Mobile Services Popular Among European Youth
Use of mobile services is popular with young people with 47 percent of 15 to 18 year olds adopting them compared to only 17 percent of 35 to 44 year olds, according to a new report from JupiterResearch, "European Mobile Youth Consumer Survey, 2007: Targeting Digital Natives and Keeping Them Loyal." The report found that [...]
iPhone: The Pre-Launch Aftermath
Love it or hate it or sick of it, Apple’s iPhone is a hit before it hits, with searches for information spiking hundreds of percent, people lining up outside stores, old men complaining about it just as the rate plans are announced, three full days before the thing actually launches. If you’re just here to [...]
HouseFront Builds Home Info Via SMS
Texting an address to HouseFront’s messaging service brings back available real estate information to one’s mobile phone.Upon seeing Resource Shelf’s entry about HouseFront, a house value service with mobile access, we had to wonder if this was the best time for yet another real estate online venture. Housing prices have dropped for 10 straight months. [...]
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