Mobile, Media & Technology Publishing
Trust Technology? A recent survey showed that a growing percentage of Americans want greater mobile banking capabilities, such as transferring funds between accounts with their smartphones. (As American as apple pie.) When asked about security, these technology trusting mobile users said it wasn’t a big concern as long as they had the “right phones,” meaning, of course, [...]
Mobile marketing’s new era is explained in this second of two podcast interviews with MMA’s Michael Becker. A leader in the mobile marketing industry, Michael is head of the North American division of Mobile Marketing Association. Michael has over 15 years of technical and business development experience, with a special emphasis on wireless multi-channel messaging [...]
Wireless carriers, as they build-out their 3G and 4G broadband networks continue to struggle with ensuring strong cell phone reception for voice and data. And it’s not only iPhone and other smartphone owners who are suffering. Five major factors account for poor cell phone reception. Handset antenna placement mainly inside a mobile phone and anything–the handgrip, [...]
Have you noticed it’s getting harder for non-geeks (maybe even geeks) to buy smartphones? Read on for some smart buying tips. Before the iPhone, non-geeks patiently waited for their two-year carrier contracts to expire. Then many, if not all, upgraded to a fancier feature phone with a larger display, more memory and a better browser. [...]
According to reliable sources, the cell phone was invented by Dr. Martin Cooper, formerly with Motorola, who branded the “first portable handset” the Dyna-Tac. Supposedly Cooper made the first cell phone and placed a call in April, 1973 to his rival at Bell Labs. His Dyna-Tac only weighed 2.5 pounds and measured 9 x 5 [...]
If you’ve been following the Blackberry mobile privacy battle between RIM, the United Arab Emirates, India and other nations, you might think wireless monitoring of mobile phones is limited to a few countries. Unfortunately, it’s not. The United States, the U.K. and other democracies have been trying to intercept phone calls, emails, cell phone location [...]
