There will be close to 6 billion mobile subscribers worldwide by the end of 2013, up from 3.9 billion by the end of 2008, according to a new forecast from Portio Research.
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Facebook is launching a ‘Lite’ service which it says is intended for mobile phones and countries with limited bandwidth.
Stephen Timms has been confirmed as the man in charge of the government’s Digital Britain vision.
NME Radio has launched an iPhone application via the iTunes store allowing users to immediately purchase and download music played on the station.Users can also text the NME Radio studio directly from the application, which it says is the first app of its kind for a UK radio broadcaster.Sammy Jacob, NME Radio managing and programming… Continue reading NME Radio launches iPhone app
Orange has teamed up with Universal Music and Channel 4 to launch a new pay as you go package that offers customers free music when they top up their mobile phones.The new initiative, Orange ‘Monkey’, will give customers free and easy access to a catalogue of songs and free texts streamed through any mobile handset… Continue reading Orange launches free music package
Blyk has teamed up with mobile network Orange UK in a bid to boost the scale of mobile advertising in the UK.The deal will put an end to Blyk’s current free-mobile credit model when the partnership kicks in after the summer.The ad-funded mobile network has acquired more than 200,000 users in the UK since it… Continue reading Blyk signs mobile partnership deal with Orange
Western Europe mobile local search ad revenues are forecast to reach €1.4 billion by 2013, according to BIA’s Kelsey Group. It predicts that mobile search advertising revenues in Western Europe will grow from €39 million in 2008 to €2.3 billion in 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 125.4%. Revenues for the local… Continue reading Western Europe mobile ad revenues forecast to increase
The number of mobile application downloads will approach almost 20 billion per annum by 2014, according to new research. The increasing deployment of app stores targeted at mass market handsets, allied to enhancements in storefront interfaces and an ever increasing array of titles appealing to wider demographics have been the main factors driving this market,… Continue reading Mobile app downloads to hit almost 20m per annum
A third of young adults in the UK regularly access Facebook and Twitter from their mobiles, according to a new report. The study, published by mobile analysts CCS Insight, found that social networking is driving the growth of mobile internet. Based on a survey of more than 1,000 UK adults between 16 and 35 years… Continue reading One third of UK youngsters access social networks via mobiles
Mobile Instant Messaging (MiM), an application that allows mobile phone users to message one another via the internet, has grown by over 190% in the last 12 months, according to new research by Aegis Media.The marketing communications group forecasts that MiM will continue growing as more service providers enter the market and consumers become more… Continue reading Aegis: Mobile Instant Messaging up 190%