According to a new report released by Nielsen, entertainment, gaming, and music websites rank among the top five mobile internet search categories in the four growing mobile markets of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). This stands in stark contrast with the more mature American and European markets, where information and news draw the [...]

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If you thought that the somewhat grainy, low-resolution images and tiny screen size of your handsets are no good for cinematography, quickly log on to the website of Portable film Festival. The online film festival that is currently on features anything shot on any device (even on mobile phones) and will remain live only till August [...]

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With mobile banking taking off in the developing world, the stage is now set for international aid to be delivered direct to the needy communities through their handsets. This completely eliminates the need for middlemen. And, cash is always better than kind be it in the form of food, clothing or medicines.
Kiwa founded by Ken Banks, [...]

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If you thought “social networking” is possible only through a pc, think again. fring is a mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (mVoIP) application that allows users to make free calls over mobile and cellular data networks as alternative to highly priced GSM airtime charges.
fring uses 3G over mobile phone networks and therefore provides a continuous call [...]

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Although Australians continue to be wary of online and mobile transactions, revenue collected from the sale of digital music, tickets, games, etc. are set to reach $300-billion annually by 2013, according to a region-by-region analysis by Juniper Research.
Meanwhile, IMS Research projects 884-million mobile banking and payment users by 2012. According to the IMS [...]

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Intelecon Research projects in a recent release that mobile networks will begin to provide coverage to 90% of the world’s population by 2010 - compared with 80% today.
This optimistic projection is being made despite the misplaced policies of many local governments who continue to subsidize the rollout of fixed-networks.
The World Bank has already [...]

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 Despite the language hurdle and low levels of literacy, would you believe it that nearly one-quarter of Asia-Pacific’s mobile revenues still comes from data?
This may one-tenth of the revenue garnered in Middle East and Africa, according to an e-Marketer survey, but, apparently, messaging-oriented services such as SMS and MMS still dominate the mobile data revenue [...]

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ValueFirst has developed a technology whereby barcodes read by the standard POS barcode reader can be sent directly to the mobile handset. The technology does not require MMS and WAP support. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, ITC, Nortel, HCL Technologies, TCS, P&G, Standard Chartered Bank are some of the top clients who have signed up for the service. [...]

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With newer and more visually appealing devises flooding the market, style will soon play a decisive role in mobile sales, driven not just by fashion trends but also by consumers’ desires to reinforce their lifestyle choices. This is a finding of the trend analysis survey conducted by Gartner.
 
The report titled “Key Trends in Mobile [...]

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Experts predict that when money begins to move on the handset, the ‘R-factor’—the expansion of mobile services to rural markets will emerge as the future driver of the VAS market. The projection is that about 40% of VAS revenues in this category will then start coming from villages and small towns, which have very poor [...]

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