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Belgen verbruiken voor 46 miljoen aan Video on Demand

Bijna 30% van alle Belgische digitale tv-klanten gebruikt video-op-aanvraag (VoD). Gemiddeld spendeert elk gezin per jaar 10 euro. Dat meldt Astel. Volgens Astel laten meer en meer Belgen zich verleiden tot VoD-diensten. De Belgen zouden in 2010 45,8 miljoen euro verbruikt hebben aan VoD. Dat is een stijging van 30% in vergelijking met het jaar daarvoor. Dat [ READ MORE ]

MobileWeb supports SMS action for Africa. SMS ‘ja’ – ‘oui’ to 4666

The Horn of Africa is currently hit by one of the severest droughts in 20 years. 12 million people are at risk of starvation as the drought and famine intensifies across Somalia, Ethiopia, North of Kenya and Djibouti. The UN says this could lead to the biggest world food crisis of the 21st century and the different [ READ MORE ]

SMS action for Haiti generates 426.672 Euro

In January 2010, MobileWeb and the three mobile operators KPN Group Belgium/BASE, Mobistar and Proximus organised the action SMS 4666 to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.  People were offered the possibility to send a SMS message to contribute 1 Euro to the participating humanitarian organisations.   In a period of [ READ MORE ]

The limitations of the Apple iPad

In the week since Steve Jobs’ announcement of the Apple iPad, much has been written about this new multimedia device.  But contrary to the iPhone, which was the hype of 2007, the comments are not very positive this time. 6Minutes has made a good summary of the limitations of the iPad, most importantly: - It [ READ MORE ]

SMS action for Haiti extended: Already more than 420.000 Euro raised

The action “SMS 4666”, organised by MobileWeb and the mobile operators KPN Group Belgium/BASE, Mobistar and Proximus, has currently raised more than 420.000 Euro. Between the 17th  and the 29th of January, the clients of the mobile operators sent more than 420.000 SMS messages to the number 4666 to participate to the fund raising for the benefit of the victims of the destructive [ READ MORE ]

SMS action for Haiti: already more than 100.000 euro collected

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 ]

SMS 4666: MobileWeb and operators join forces to help Haiti earthquake victims

MobileWeb.be and the Belgian mobile operators Proximus, Mobistar and Base have joined forces to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Tuesday January 12th, a severe earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the scale of Richter has hit the poor western province of Haiti, a region of 2,2 million inhabitants.  The [ READ MORE ]

96,1 million SMS on New Year’s Eve

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 ]

Mobistar plans app store for September 2010

Telecom operator Mobistar is planning to launch a mobile applications store in Belgium by September 2010.  Mother company Orange presented such an app store for France and Great Britain earlier this month.  Today, this Application Shop boosts 5000 applications, a number that should further grow next year.  Access to the shop will be pre-installed on Orange [ READ MORE ]

Mobile Internet use in Belgium will triple

According to a new Forrester study, the use of the Mobile Internet in Belgium will triple over the next 5 years.    While now only a mere 9% of Belgian mobile users surf the mobile web, this will be 28% in 2014.  Still, this means Belgium still seriously lags behind in Europe, where an average of [ READ MORE ]

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