Mobile phone companies have long offered free handsets to customers in order to sign up for contracts but now they are offering free laptops!
Carphone Warehouse started giving away laptops with its home broadband package last September. Now mobile operators are following suit.
Last month Orange became the first operator to offer laptops in its shops and [...]

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A graphic novel biography of US presidential candidate Barack Obama is now available to download on to mobile phones. US specialist uclick will offer a mobile version of Presidential Material: Barack Obama from 8 October. Not to be outdone, Obama’s rival in the race to the White House, John McCain will also have a Presidential [...]

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Are you always tempted to check your partner’s text messages on the sly? You’re not alone. An Australian survey indicates that one in three mobile phone users are text message snoops, and the consequences can often be heart-breaking.
The online survey, conducted for telecoms service provider Virgin Mobile Australia, reveals that women are more likely than men [...]

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Thanks to Apple’s iphone, consumer expectations from mobile multimedia have risen many fold. Handset manufacturers the world over are not caught in the frenzy of producing better product against the iphone benchmark. Very soon users can hope to view TV programming, movies and millions of user-generated videos virtually in the palm of their hands.
However until [...]

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You are not alone in feeling irritated by unsolicited calls or SMSs from direct sellers. Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a Maritz Research survey of Generation Y consumers say they are “unlikely” or “definitely unlikely” to subscribe to texted retail offers sent to their handsets.
The WebVisible-Nielsen survey is even gloomier, with 92% of the respondents [...]

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According to an emarketer report, the number and variety of searches on mobile phones jumped during the second half of 2007, causing it to raise its global mobile search revenue forecast up from $83 million in 2007 to $3.8 billion by 2012.
“The numbers coming from the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific suggest that mobile search traffic [...]

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First came SMS. Next the camera. Then music. And, now the mobile phone industry is getting ready for its next big thing—navigation. Phone handset vendors like Nokia, HTC, Asus, Sony Ericsson and Motorola are promising a host of mobile phone applications on this score, reveals a Financial Express report.
As Indians taste the pleasure of pleasant [...]

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Apparently, Australians are quickly becoming comfortable with creating and sharing content through their mobile phones, finds out a survey.
However they still have to get used to the idea of mobile social networking. The finding, from a survey of more than 2000 mobile phone users conducted by the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, suggests the increased [...]

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TAMi, a tool that measures the total exposure to the Olympics across multiple platforms reports about 0.5 of the daily viewership dials up coverage on mobile phones, reports Media Life magazine. Television still makes up more than 92 percent of viewership each day, but the internet’s share is starting to grow, along with mobile media, [...]

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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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