It's long been an article of faith for many mobile enthusiasts that mobile phones are going to become the dominant means by which the human race deals with the internet. Lately that idea has been echoed by more mainstream voices: "There are over one billion people in emerging markets who will never access the Internet using a PC." -- Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, on stage at CTIA, September 200...

After a brief interlude at CTIA earlier this year, we've had another chance to play around with Samsung's funky little Highnote for Sprint recently, so we wanted to give our quick, stream-of-consciousness thoughts on what this music-focused dual slider is all about. The phone's claim to fame is its hidden integrated loudspeaker for blasting tunes, which can be exposed by sliding the...

Worldwide Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 42% penetration in 2008 and 53% penetration by 2014 worldwide. US Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 88% penetration in 2008 and 104% penetration by 2014 in the United States. The above numbers for the US matches the penetration numbers reported by CTIA for 2008 of 88%; as I blogged the other day, “as of

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Mobile messaging (SMS and MMS) has grown significantly in the past years since carrier interoperability was developed. During the decade of its growth, no significant changes have been made to the service. However, new technologies utilizing user presence information, buddy lists, and more real time exchange of message traffic could greatly enhance the functionality of wireless messaging and signi...

CTIA has laid the groundwork for Enhanced Messaging, which is similar to SMS but enables users to include sound, animation, and presence in messages.

Cellular association CTIA released a document aimed at helping messaging companies develop interoperable EM (enhanced messaging) offerings.

The CTIA?s Wireless Internet Caucus today released its finished document for interoperability of multimedia messaging.

According to the CTIA, all of the major U.S. wireless network operators have agreed to the feature set of Enhanced Messaging (EM) services. EM is a presence-enabled mobile messaging service that allows for richer real-time text messaging and communications ...

CTIA keynote lineup includes execs from T-Mobile USA, Microsoft, RIM, Clearwire along with Al Gore.