Archive for August, 2009

Cell Phone Only Households Top 20%

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Americans continue to cut the cord on their home landline phones.
Over 20% of American households are now cell phone-only households according to information published by mobile marketing site 84444.com.
You have to wonder why anybody needs a landline phone any more.  I find mine to be quite annoying when I’m at home, but I unfortunately have [...]

Mobile Ad Spending to Top $6 Billion

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Mobile advertising will exceed $6 billion by 2014, according to a study by Juniper Research. This is a slight upgrade from the projection from last year.
Despite the increase, mobile advertising is still a small part of the overall advertising spending marketplace. Just 1.2% of the total advertising dollars will be spent on mobile advertising in [...]

Sexting Can Land You in Jail

Friday, August 14th, 2009

We’ve done a number of stories at the Text Message Blog about Sexting.  Why?  Well, we love text
messaging and we love sex! (lol)
Now, the word from China, which is an exploding market for cell phones and text messaging, is that you can land in jail if you are sexting there.
Chinese authorities are now monitoring SMS [...]

Convert, Edit, and Write PDF Files

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

If you are one of those business people looking for a software to convert, create and edit adobe pdf files… look no further than pdfconverted.com.  At pdfconverted.com you can download a program that will allow you to write and edit pdf files fast and easily.
The program lets you convert pdf to word so you can [...]

Internet Directories Worth Buying

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Internet directories are not what they used to be.  It used to be that all you needed to do to get higher rankings on the search engines was to get a bunch of links from other web sites.  Quantity was more important than quality.
In this video, Bob Bentz addresses just what directories you should consider [...]

Ringtone Sales Drop

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Ringtone sales are dropping.  That shouldn’t be news to anybody.
According to a study by SNL Kagan, ringtone sales for 2007 were $714 million and dropped 24% in 2008 to $541 million.
It’s not all doom and gloom for ringtone sales, however.  Sales of ringback tones have increased from 176 million in 2007 to $199 million in [...]