Text Message Blog

ABC News report on cell phone use by Americans, including speaking minutes per month and text messages per month.

Mobile phone handset designers should look to social networking for inspiration to improve the management of communications on phones, says BulkSMS.com managing director, Dr Pieter Streicher. He maintains that many aspects of the mobile phone user interface haven’t changed in ten years, especially contact management and SMS functionality.
Naomi Baron’s 2009 study into mobile phone behaviour [...]

We’ve said it before.  Don’t Text and Drive.
Text messaging while driving is estimated to cause 200,000 auto accidents per year in the United States!
Want to know who are the biggest problems?  Adults.  47% of adults 18+ send or read a text messages while driving.

A British woman has set the world record for fast text messaging.
Melissa Thompson, 27, wrote “the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human”, in 25.94 seconds.  Try doing that while driving (just kidding).
The official Guinness World Record is [...]

In 2003, residents of the Philippines sent the most text messages per cell phone user, 195.  In the United States, the average cell phone user sent 13 text messages.
Fast forward to 2009.  In the Philippines, the average cell phone user sent 600 text messages per month and in the United States, it is 420.

Mobile media is certainly catching on when it comes to advertising agencies and their use of it.
According to a the Advertiser Intelligence Report, nearly half (46%) of the marketers and agency media buyers surveyed are currently incorporating mobile media into their advertising plans.
62% of those surveyed expect to increase their spending on mobile in the [...]

If you are in business, there are some things you need to buy that you’d just rather do without, at least until you actually need them.
Let’s hope that you never need them, but that’s simply not realistic.  We all need things like insurance.
And, when it comes to insurance, it’s actually more than just health insurance; [...]

According to a report by ComScore, Americans are using their mobile phones more than ever before.

63% used text messaging.
30.1% used mobile browsers.
28.6% downloaded apps.

(Source — ComScore; March ‘10)

We’ve been doing trade shows for many years.  While some things have stayed the same in successful trade show participation, many things have changed dramatically.
One such area where great improvements have been made is in the trade show display world.  I remember lugging three large boxes through airports to get to our destination trade show.  [...]

Everybody knows that the more links you have to your web site, the higher your search engine rankings will be.  That is, so long as those links are not spammy links and not from bad neighborhoods.
Business related links are some of the best because they are from trusted sources.  One such source is Universal Business [...]