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Radio 1212, the joint action of the 5 major Flemish radio stations JoeFM, MNM, Q-Music, Radio2 and Studio Brussel, has marked a historical record in mobile fundraising in Belgium. On Friday January 22nd 2010, between 8.00 and 20.00hr, exactly 227.258 SMS have been sent to the shortcode 4666, equaling as many euros for the victims [ READ MORE ]
Press release On Monday January 18th at 10.00, the customers of mobile operators KPN Group Belgium/BASE, Mobistar and Proximus have already donated more than € 100 000 to the victims of the earthquake in Haïti. Until January 31st at midnight, customers can donate 1 euro by sending a sms message to the number 4666, containing the message “yes” or the code of the [ READ MORE ]
In 2009, the use of the mobile internet has increased with 148% worldwide. Mobile devices now represent 1,3% of all web pageviews in North America, with Apple’s iPhone operating system accounting for 65,1% of mobile web traffic in the region. Google’s Android OS is second at 12,4%, followed by Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS at [ READ MORE ]
eBay Mobile is doing great: in 2009, there was the sale of a product every 2 seconds via the mobile version of the popular auction site, good for half a billion US dollars worth of transactions. Especially Christmas is a good period: Xmas 2009 sold three times as much as Xmas 2008. Mobile users from more [ READ MORE ]
Google reportedly plans to begin selling a branded Android smartphone directly to consumers as soon as early 2010 as it continues to broaden its web services portfolio beyond the desktop. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reports the device – dubbed the Nexus One – boasts software designed by Google itself, [ READ MORE ]
In the last days of 2009, the Belgian mobile operators were anticipating some 100 million SMS messages to be send on New Year’s Eve. The end result is a bit less but still a record: 96,1 million messages. One year earlier, that amount was at 78,3 million. Proximus treated 40,8 million SMS between 20.00 (31 dec.) [ READ MORE ]
Dutch news site Nu.nl reports a shift of web traffic from their mobile website to their mobile apps for iPhone and Android. In November, the traffic on the Nu.nl mobile site saw a 20% decrease to 20 million pageviews. However, traffic on their mobile applications saw a rise. The iPhone app is by far the most [ READ MORE ]
Apple unveiled iTunes Rewind 2009, a new iTunes storefront feature spotlighting the year’s top-selling iPhone applications and media downloads as well as editors’ selections for the Best of 2009. According to iTunes Rewind 2009, which encompasses only premium applications for iPhone and iPod touch, Electronic Arts’ The Sims 3 was the App Store’s bestselling game [ READ MORE ]
The number of subscribers accessing social networking sites via mobile device will grow to 607.5 million worldwide by 2013, representing 43 percent of global mobile web users, according to a new forecast issued by eMarketer. Mobile social networkers will grow to 56.2 million in the U.S. by 2013 – about 45 percent of the nation’s [ READ MORE ]
AdMod, recently bought by Google, has released some interesting learnings, extracted from the data of the past two years. - The number of monthly ad requests in the AdMob network increased 6.3x over the past 2 years from 1.6 billion in September 2007 to 10.2 billion in September 2009. - 64 countries sent more than [ READ MORE ]
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