Posted on January 28, 2008 by Bart Vanmaele
In July 2007, we wrote about Google preparing a mobile search engine. The latest version of this mobile search service has several large improvements compared to earlier versions. While the first version only allowed to search within one category separately (eg.: ‘web’, ‘images’ or ‘news’), the search for a keyword is now done for all [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2008 by Bart Vanmaele
What better impulse could mobile video get than having YouTube investing in a mobile service. The popular internet video giant is launching its new service ‘YouTube Mobile’, which allows to stream the entire YouTube catalog of over 200 million videos on a mobile device. Users can not only watch videos on their cell phone but [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2008 by Danny Lein
On December 3rd, 1992 a young engineer at Airwide Solutions named Neil Papworth sent the first commercial text message to Vodafone manager Richard Jarvis. Both sender and receiver were present on a recent anniversary party of that first SMS in London. At the time, they couldn’t have imagined the gigantic impact SMS would have on [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2008 by Bart Vanmaele
Mobile marketing, which was born in countries such as Japan and South Korea, has taken off in Western Europe and is beginning to grow in North America. As consumers move to flat-rate data plans and adopt mobile messaging, and as new platforms for advertising-supported mobile search, video and gaming content services arrive, mobile marketing is [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2008 by Bart Vanmaele
The SMS storm on New Year’s Eve has broken all records. In Belgium, a massive total of 59 million sms messages with Best Wishes were sent out. That is a lot more than the expectations, which had counted on 46 to 50 million.
The operators were well prepared for the texting night. Proximus activated a fifth [...]
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