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India Muscles Out US for the Number Two Spot in the 2008 Mobile Market
22 February 2008India is the fastest growing wireless market in the world, with a subscriber base expected to grow by 128.8% from 2007 to 2010, according to a new report from Research and Markets.
The IE Market Research report - 1Q08 Mobile Forecast: India, 2007-2010 - projects India will reach 526.8 million subscribers by 2010, pushing it past […]
China’s Mobile Market Nears 540m Consumers
22 January 2008By the end of November 2007, China had 539.4 million mobile subscribers. China’s market is growing by an average of about 1.5% a month, with a total 18.5% growth last year, according to China’s Ministry of Information Industry. Chinese users sent 51.3 billion text messages in November, an average of over three per user per […]
Rubicon Project: Zero to 2b in 8 weeks
4 January 2008The Rubicon Project, a new player in online ad distribution, announced some numbers recently, and they are looking pretty impressive.
The company brings advertising networks together and allows them to place ads on participants’ Web sites, ranging from small blogs to some major Web publishers. On the first day of its beta back in October, […]
Barcodes on Mobiles, Mt Bachelor and RocketBux Scan So Nice
4 January 2008RocketBux, a mobile software company, and Mt Bachelor, one of the largest ski resorts in North America, have announced that RocketBux is providing mobile phone barcode coupons for the resort. This is the first use of a standardized barcode on mobile phones used by the public.
Through RocketBux’s technology, Mt Bachelor is offering daily SMS […]
China mobile phone user base nears 540 million in November 2007
29 December 2007http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20071231PR200.html
Unlocked in Singapore, iPhones are available on the internet
8 December 2007http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article3019098.ece
One Laptop per Child Still a Moderate Success
1 December 2007The One Laptop per Child project’s “Give One, Get One” program has been extended through December 31 as donations averaged about $2 million a day. On that pace, the OLPC should move about 490,000 units by the end of the year.
The promotion began on November 12 and had been scheduled for two weeks. Under […]
Mobile Adult Content Market to Peak at $3.5b in 2010
1 December 2007Communication technology research firm Juniper Research has released a report on the more titillating side of mobile content - adult entertainment. According to Juniper (not to be confused with JupiterResearch, another consumers and technology research company), the mobile adult content market will increase to $3.5 billion by 2010. Factors driving revenues include the adoption of […]
$100 Laptops Go into Production; Give 1, Get 1 Offer
10 November 2007Quanta has started building the “$100″ laptop - the one that has a hand crank for generating electricity - in a Chinese factory under the auspices of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization, the group behind the project and which was founded by Nicholas Negroponte. OLPC said children in developing countries will this month […]
One Laptop Per Child’s ‘Give 1, Get 1′ Offer
10 November 2007MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child will offer a Give 1 Get 1 Program for a brief period starting November 12. For $399, participants will be purchasing two XO laptops-one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation and one that will be sent to the participant. […]