55% of Americans that purchased a new handset in the past three months, purchased a smartphone. The continued proliferation of the purchase of smartphones is leading to a huge increase in the number of Americans who will soon be using a smartphone device. 38% of Americans currently own a smartphone, but that number will increase [...]
UK regulator Phone Pay Plus in the UK offers tips on how to deal with unsolicited text messages. This video will surely be quite funny in another 20 years.
When it comes to college sports, fans, students, and alumni just can’t get enough. Ever talk to an Alabama football fan or a Kentucky basketball fan? You get the drift.
Sports Info Text, a text message marketing service from 84444.com, is providing text message marketing solutions to many small and large university sports teams [...]
Sprint came out with an informative video of how to unsubscribe from a premium rate text message service. Of course, it works the same way with standard rate (free to the consumer) text message marketing campaigns as well. Just reply with STOP and you have opted-out.
It may come as a surprise that many Amish people use cell phones and therefore, also use text messaging. But, one Amish man probably wishes that he’d never learned how to send a text message.
Willard Yoder, 21, an Amish man living in Indiana, has been arrested for allegedly solicting sex in his horse and buggy [...]
If you are in business, you will eventually need video production. And, if your plan is to get the intern to do the work, you may just end up with a video production that does more harm than good. A bad video just doesn’t cut it.
Music production is another thing that you will definitely need [...]
Checkatrade.com, an online business information provider based in the United Kingdom, uses text messaging to contact their members.
Checkatrade was established in 1998 by local businessman Kevin Byrne after a tornado damaged hundreds of buildings in Selsey, West Sussex. When homes were rebuilt after the storm, it was difficult for homeowners to distinguish between the genuine [...]
Mobile advertising is on a huge growth mode and here is the breakdown of the current mobile advertising revenue by world region plus projections of future revenues. The study was done by Gartner. You may also like to read about mobile advertising recall.
(Credit: Gartner)
One of the few directories that is still highly regarded by Google and Bing is the Best of the Web directory. There are a lot of reasons why this directory is highly regarded and others are not. The longevity of the Best of the Web diretory certainly contributes to its rankings. The fact that they [...]
Most seniors in the Class of 2011 were born in 1992, the year the first text message was sent from a computer to a mobile phone, or 1993, the year the graphical web browser Mosaic was created.
They were in grade school when Facebook was founded, and eighth-graders when the iPhone hit the market.
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