Cell Phones

2008 saw some changes in worldwide cell phone rankings.  Korea’s LG overtook America’s Motorola to claim third place worldwide.  Nokia blew away the competition nearly shipping the same number of phones as the next 4 brands combined.  Here are the results…
The numbers (in millions)
1. Nokia - 470
2. Samsung - 200
3. LG - 100
4. Motorola - [...]

In July 2008 Papa John’s introduced an alternative way to order pizza.  Through a cell phone, consumers are now able to place orders using the mobile web.  With just a few clicks, a pizza can be ordered and delivered without ever needing to place a call.  The new technology has already helped business as this [...]

Voters were able to use their cell phones this year to cast their NHL All Star ballots.
The starting lineup features players from 4 teams; Penguins and Canadiens vs. the Ducks and Blackhawks.
The leader in votes was Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby who received a record 1,713,021 votes.Of the record 34 million votes cast, 15 million were by text [...]

Juniper Research is forecasting a dramatic increase in Adult mobile service revenue over the next 4 years.  From 1.62 billion in 2007 to 2.2 billion in 2008, Juniper is predicting 4.9 billion in revenue by 2013.  An increase in video chats is the biggest factor to explain the rise in revenue.  Advancement in mobile marketing has [...]

If you’re trying to reach college or high school students, email is just so yesterday.
A full 61% of students never read any email marketing attempts to reach them.
As for the preferred method of communication?  It’s text messaging by a landslide at 37% followed by email (26%), social networking (15%),  and instant messaging (11%).

An increasing amount of American households are abandoning their landline phones. 
According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (not sure why they did the study), 18% of Americans have a cell phone, but no landline phone.  Add to that an additional 13% who get “all or nearly all of their [...]

Mobile is growing at ESPN.  During the 2008 college football season, ESPN.com and its mobile web site recorded its most traffic ever.
Fans spent an average of five minutes per visit on the mobile web site of ESPN.  The most viewed story of the year was “USC willing to give up timeout to wear red at [...]

The total number of cell phones in use in the USA as of today is 268,461,189. This is the estimate from the CTIA.
Text messaging is the dominant data service in use in the USA.  According to the Mobile Advertising Report from Limbo, over 160 million consumers used text messaging in the third quarter of 2008.
The [...]

Let’s face it. Most of us don’t care what carrier we use for our family cell phone plans. We just want the best deal.
But, how can you really figure out the best deal for your own unique situation? Some family members use a lot of minutes and some just use the cell [...]

This past spring, fantasy baseball blog, Fantasy Baseball Dugout, got a little tired of writing about baseball statistics and projections. It made a post about Baseball’s Hottest Wives and showed pictures of some of the more beautiful wives of professional baseball stars.
The response was overwhelming and its baseball wives section has become the most popular [...]