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Verizon Adds Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile Messaging for Prepay Customers

July 10, 2008 8:22 am | by Teresa von Fuchs | News | Comments

Verizon Wireless has announced that beginning July 14 its prepay customers can get unlimited text, picture and video messaging.

Solving the Phone Popping Puzzle

July 9, 2008 8:26 am | by Brad Smith | News | Comments

The videos were e-mailed around the world, sometimes with messages that said, “This is why you should never use a cell phone.”

A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Messages

July 8, 2008 8:09 am | by Wireless Week Staff | News | Comments

OK, maybe that’s a bit of exaggeration, but M:Metrics is seeing a definite uptick in pictures accompanying messages.

Alltel Adds Texting to Circle Offer

June 30, 2008 8:07 am | by Monica Alleven | News | Comments

Alltel Wireless is changing up its “My Circle” proposition, adding texting to the offer.

Senator Sponsors Do-Not-Text Bill

June 17, 2008 8:33 am | by Teresa von Fuchs | News | Comments

Oregon Senator Gordon Smith is sponsoring a bill that seeks to ban unwanted text-messages. Called the “Do Not Text Act of 2008”

News Briefs for June 17, 2008

June 17, 2008 8:21 am | News | Comments

Companies in today’s briefs include: TruePosition, Kyocera Wireless, Virgin Mobile USA, Telsima, Neotel, Comverse, Taiwan Mobile, doubleTwist

News Briefs for June 11, 2008

June 11, 2008 8:48 am | News | Comments

Companies in today’s briefs include: Innopath Software, OtterBox, OnAir, Highdeal, Comfone, Orange France, BT Openzone, ATT, SoftBank, KPN, Verizon Wireless, NEC, Palringo

News Briefs for June 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 8:18 am | News | Comments

Companies in today’s briefs include: Virgin Mobile USA, YouMail, Verizon Wireless, Telstra, Ericsson, Interop Technologies, OpenMarket, Amalfi Semiconductor, Bartech, Ember, Cellular South, Convergys

Succeeding with SMS

May 27, 2008 6:50 am | by Rip Harris | Articles | Comments

The expansion of mobile network services and subscriber growth is as robust as ever.

Web Exclusive: From Messaging to Management Duty

May 14, 2008 6:40 pm | by Evan Koblentz | Articles | Comments

SMS connections can be used as one approach to mobile device management.

Pope To SMS Youth

May 8, 2008 8:18 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | Comments

In July, the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict, will use SMS to reach out to young Catholics during World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia.

KLM Uses SMS To Alert Passengers

May 8, 2008 8:12 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | Comments

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has tapped End2End Connectivity to provide its customers with flight status notifications via SMS.

IMS Forum Adds to Plugfest Agenda

May 8, 2008 8:09 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | Comments

A testing event for IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) next month will include user interfaces and service provider administrative tools for the first time.

Yahoo! Selects Jajah for Internet Telephony

April 29, 2008 8:26 am | by Teresa von Fuchs | News | Comments

Yahoo! announced plans to outsource the Internet telephony portions of Yahoo! Messenger to Jajah. Under the terms of the deal, Jajah will connect calls to and from the instant messaging application and handle billing and customer care. Financial terms of the deal were not released.

Crime-Fighting Service Uses SMS

April 29, 2008 8:08 am | by Monica Alleven | News | Comments

Text messaging is used to alert people of emergencies, so why not use it to help fight crime? That’s what Crime Stoppers plans to do, with the help of companies like messaging aggregator mBlox and software provider Anderson Software. The two companies have joined together to provide an anonymous crime-fighting tip service.

Report: Mobile Instant Messaging to Overtake SMS

April 28, 2008 8:00 am | by Teresa von Fuchs | News | Comments

According to a recent survey from market research firm TNS Technology, Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) will overtake text messaging and possibly PC-based e-mail. The TNS Global Telecoms Insight study interviewed 17,000 respondents across 30 countries, and found that once mobile users adopt MIM it overtakes other messaging tools to become the primary non-voice method of interacting.

Count Calories on the Go

April 21, 2008 7:51 am | by Monica Alleven | News | Comments

Now there’s no excuse for blowing your diet while out and about. About.com Health is launching Calorie Count Mobile

Mobiles Push China IM Market

April 16, 2008 8:33 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | Comments

Mobile instant messaging (IM) is a hotter growth market in China than traditional instant messaging, reaching 50 million users and earning roughly $196 million in 2007

Alltel Partners for Text-to-Landline App

April 11, 2008 8:00 am | by Teresa von Fuchs | News | Comments

Messaging International subsidiary TeleMessage announced that it has signed an agreement with Alltel Wireless to launch its Text-to-Landline application

Modes of Messaging

April 9, 2008 1:47 pm | by Carrie Printz | Articles | Comments

CTIA SPECIAL EDITION - APRIL 3, 2008 Sure, SMS is still the kingpin, but other modes of messaging are emerging. SMS continues to be an extremely popular data feature, with 104.9 million mobile phone users (47.9%) sending a text message in January 2008. That’s up from 78.3 million in January 2007, according

The Opportunity of Mobile IM

April 7, 2008 6:58 am | by Allen Scott | Articles | Comments

From social groups to networking sites, from family units to business groups, people are using technology more than ever to communicate and share.

Verizon Wireless Customers Text 20 Billion Messages in One Month

April 2, 2008 1:15 pm | by Teresa von Fuchs | News | Comments

Verizon Wireless announced that seven years after the launch of basic text messaging, Verizon Wireless customers sent and received over 10 billion billed text messages in a single month—June 2007. Only eight months later, the number of text messages on the Verizon Wireless network in a single month doubled to nearly 20 billion. In February 2008, Verizon Wireless customers sent and received nearly 20 billion billed text messages.