Archive for September, 2009

Working Moms Are the Mobile Power Users in The US

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

A new study shows working moms are some of the US’s highest spenders on cell phone services. This could upset the stereotype about men being the big technology spenders.
The average cell phone bill for a working mom is 21% higher than that of the average mobile user, topping out at $94 a month. These women [...]

Mobile Ad Revenues

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Mobile advertising revenues in North America will grow from $208 million in 2009 to $1.5 billion in 2013, according to research from Parks Associates.
Behind the large increase is the adoption of smartphones and downloadable apps which will begin the significant increases beginning in 2010. 
There were 62 million smartphone users in North America in 2008 and user [...]

Yankees All-Time Hit Leader Prefers Text Messages

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

When Derek Jeter became the all-time Yankee hits leader on Sunday, his ex-manager Joe Torre said
 congratulations…by text message.
 
Jeter broke the long-standing hits record held by The Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig.  Gehrig held the Yankees hits record for 72 years.
“I communicated with him, I didn’t call him,” said Torre.  ”I texted him.  That’s his favorite thing.”
Jeter, [...]

Need Help With File Extension EMZ?

Monday, September 14th, 2009

The file extension .EMZ indicates a certain kind of file, which is the compressed version of an Enhanced Meta File (.EMF). Vector based image files make up the .emf files and are created by many vector drawing applications, plus they offer crisp and sharp visual quality no matter what zoom level due to their [...]

File Extension sis

Monday, September 14th, 2009

The file extension sis is used by Pace University, the SiSoftware Sandra (System Analyzer Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) and symbian Operating Systems.
Pace University has over 13,000 students at schools for Arts & Sciences, Education, Law and Nursing on three campuses (Westchester, New Jersey and New York City and White Plains, New York). The University uses [...]

Avoiding Text Message Injuries

Monday, September 14th, 2009

A recent study by Ergonomist Ewa Gustafsson studied the mobile phone habits of 56 young adults who text message on a regular basis (several times daily). Her findings showed that half of the students reported problems with neck, arms or hands while the other half had no such symptoms.
Gustafsson states, “Considering how much we use [...]

Financial Management Software

Monday, September 14th, 2009

The file extension ofx is usually associated with files created by financial management software. OFX stands for Open Financial Exchange. This is a technical specification standard that was made together by Microsoft Intuit and Checkfree in 1997.
This standard software allows the free transfer of financial records, transaction between consumers banks businesses and other financial institutions [...]

The MSO Document

Monday, September 14th, 2009

The file extension mso indicates the file on your computer is most definatley a file that belongs to a Microsoft Office program. This is not the same as the Microsoft doc file extensions. The mso file type cannot be read on its own. The mso file type has no significance on it’s own.
This type of [...]

Facebook Mobile Juggernaut Continues

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Facebook has 4 times more mobile users this year than it did last year at this time with 65 million activeusers.
While Facebook doesn’t denote where that growth has come from, it is believed that it mirrors the international growth that Facebook has enjoyed in Europe and South America.
Facebook operates multiple mobile solutions worldwide including:
 

iPhone
Blackberry
m.Facebook.com - [...]

Mobile Marketing with a Punch

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Boxing is not the sport that it used to be.  There’s no more Brown Bomber, Louisville Lip, or Golden Boy. Rocky hasn’t even made a movie in the past few years.
Ultimate fighting has become the contact sport of choice in the squared circle, or octagon.  Quite frankly, it’s just more exciting to those of us fascinated [...]