Feeling blue about the state of the world’s financial markets? Here’s a bit of cheerful news about one area of the economy that’s still powering ahead: mobile phone service.
According to a study released Sept. 22 by London-based market researcher Informa Telecoms and Media, the number of mobile subscriptions around the world will reach 4 billion [...]

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Far from being considered a social obligation, offering telecom services in rural areas has now become the hot spot for private telecom operators, says a news report. In India, nearly 75 per cent of the mobile users in the villages are now owned by private operators as cellular phones catch the imagination of rural consumers. [...]

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Here’s another study that warns that children who use mobile phones are five times more likely to develop brain tumours than those who don’t. The findings were presented at a British conference, recently.
Earlier a Swedish study had indicated that under-16s were more at risk of radiation from mobile phones because their brains and nervous systems [...]

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Driven by the rapid growth in the number of mobile phone subscribers in India, the country’s apex bank (RBI) has finally issued guidelines for mobile banking.
According to the guidelines, a transaction limit of $55 (Rs 2,500) will be imposed on all mobile banking transactions, and there will also be an overall cap of $110 (Rs [...]

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Kenya’s leading mobile phone operator, Safaricom and the United Nations on Thursday launched a peace initiative dubbed the Text For Peace Campaign to enable Kenyans send peace text messages ahead of the International Peace Day.
Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph told a news conference in Nairobi the campaign will run from Sept. 18 to 21 during which [...]

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Imagine being able to communicate with video images anywhere in the world. Regardless of the connection you still have a good image of the person you are communicating with. Ulrik Söderström from Digital Media Lab, Umea University in Sweden, has developed a technique that enables this. The technique is so powerful that it is possible [...]

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Ad-funded social networks will provide the bulk of revenues in the mobile user-generated content (UGC) space by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report says that the total value of the UGC market - comprising social networking, dating and personal content delivery (PCD) services - will rise from nearly $1.1 billion [...]

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A recent study with end users of mobile messaging devices in organizations reveals just how critically dependant we have become on our handsets. Among other things the survey revealed that:
* 35% respondents said that if there cell phones were to conk off, it would critically impact their ability to make critical, time-sensitive decisions.
* On forgetting [...]

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Mobile video reporting is still meeting with resistance from African citizens and even some journalists, said Ameyaw Debrah, a Ghanaian mobile reporter, at the Digital Citizen Indaba 3.0 in Grahstown, South Africa. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/090908-despite-potential-mobile-reporting-still.html?hpg1=bn
Those who are used to being interviewed in front of large television cameras fail to take journalists seriously when they produce mobile phones [...]

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Comedy Time, Inc., a leading provider of short-form made for mobile comedy content for mobile devices have announced the availability of a comedy application for BlackBerry (R) smart phones. These customers can now view Comedy Time programming by downloading the application from the website. The application, created by Versaly Entertainment offers a line-up of the [...]

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