Archive for March, 2008

US Consumption of Mobile Content

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

The USA still trails the rest of the world in its consumption of mobile content and application, especially when it comes to receiving an advertisement via text message. In the USA, only 19% report receiving an SMS advertisement compared to 51% in the European Union and 72% in Spain.
Other statistics form the M:Metrics study concluded [...]

Mobile Search Growth in the USA

Monday, March 17th, 2008

More people are accessing search engines on their mobile phones than ever before.
Can mobile search one day surpass online search spending?
Here’s the latest statistics from eMarketer.com.
WORLDWIDE MOBILE SEARCH ADVERTISING SPENDING

2007 — $83.3 million

2008 — $243.7

2009 — $596.6

2010 — $1,289.9

2011 — $2,345.2

2012 — $3,773.2

USA MOBILE SEARCH ADVERTISING SPENDING

2007 — $34.5 million

2008 — $107.4

2009 — $241.8

2010 [...]

Win Your Fantasy Baseball League This Year

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Pittsburgh – Its editors describe it as: “so close to the action you might get spit on.” And, from the first read, I can see why that’s absolutely true.
FantasyBaseballDugout.com, a new fantasy baseball tips site owned by Saint Davids, Pennsylvania-based Olympic SEO, is the brainchild of Bob “BallparkBob” Bentz and his nephew Jonathan “BatBoy BeeZee” [...]

Hispanics Lead Way in Text Message Use

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

The recent Pew report shows that 58% of Americans have sent or received a text message, but that figure is much higher when it comes to Hispanics and African-Americans.
On a typical day, 31% of Americans use text messaging. That figure rises to 60% among those under 30. Clearly, one would think that under 30’s would [...]

List of Cell Phone E-Mail Addresses

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Did you know that every cell phone number has a corresponding email address? This enables you to send an email to the phone from your computer rather than sending a text message. Here’s the list of the larger USA cell phone carriers.
ATT or Cingular - number@cingularme.com,
number@mobile.mycingular.com,
number@txt.att.com
T-Mobile - number@tmomail.com
Verizon - number@vtext.com
Sprint - number@messaging.sprintpcs.com (Sprint PCS)
number@messaging.nextel.com (Nextel)
Alltel [...]