More than half of Australia’s mobile phone users have used content on their mobile phone created by others, while one third are regularly sharing the content they create, according to the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index. Other findings of the survey are: of the third of mobile phone users regularly sharing content they create, 96 [...]

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Prisons in Pakistan don’t normally restrict the use (or misuse) of mobile phones hence the practice is widespread in the province, according to sources in the Prisons Department, who recently confessed this to a Daily Times reporter.
Talking to Daily Times, a senior Prisons Department official said that the department administration had been launching crackdowns to [...]

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Alok Kejriwal is the founder of http://www.contests2win.com (c2w), a consumer media company that dabbles in various formats of online and mobile contests. A small town lad from Parel (Mumbai) Kejriwal gave a go by to his family’s hosiery socks business at 28 to launch his first dream boat (c2w) in 1998. Later, he went on [...]

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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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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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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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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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