The mobile advertising market is looking like one beacon of light in these dark economic times. As Russell’s pointed out, his employer AdMob continues to grow, and other players in the space are seeing substantial growth, too, like MADS, a mobile ad company out of Amsterdam. I spoke to MADS’ CEO, Ashu Mathura a little while

Amidst pullback in consumer spending, Motorola survey finds nearly one in four holiday shoppers abandoned planned purchases HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. – January 8, 2009 – While several retailers applied creative marketing approaches to ring holiday sales during today’s challenging economic times, a recent Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) study found that shoppers left an average of $95 unspent when items th...

According to USA Today, the public college is one of a growing number of businesses and organizations across the USA that are shedding traditional land lines and replacing them with cellphones or voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) technology in an effort to save money during tough economic times. There are no national statistics available on how many of the nation's businesses have cut the c...

From the world's poorest countries to the very richest, the demand for mobile phones will not be derailed by tougher economic times.

Even during these tough economic times, HTC appears to be doing swimmingly well. At least that’s all we ever hear in reports from around the web. So, when I noticed today that HTC CEO Peter Chou was quoted as saying the G1 should sell over a million units this year… I wasn’t too surprised at

In an effort to stay afloat during tough economic times, Kodak has reportedly eliminated employee voicemail altogether.

Viigo has really been on a roll when it comes to adding new functionality to their beta. Their latest addition is job search functionality to the local interest channel. I know if these troubled economic times you always have to keep an eye on on what jobs are available in your area so this is

In these tough economic times — see, you can start any article off with that line nowadays — families are looking to cut costs wherever they can. We’ve mentioned, on multiple occasions, how prepaid wireless can help a family reduce their spending on communications costs. Another measure they can take is to use cell phones only and ditch the now-redundant landline. It seems many a...

LONDON, England - I just picked up on a report in the Economic Times in India about some stats revealed at Nokia World (which I missed, entirely - shriek!) First, the numbers. Nokia plans to have mobile email on some 400 million handsets in the next 24 months. It also plans to sell 300 million GPS-enabled handsets in the next 18-24 months. Let's put that last figure into perspective. Sales of stan...

I feel like every post over the past few weeks could be prefaced with “in these tough economic times.” It seems to be the theme running throughout the prepaid industry. We’ve seen that consumers are already turning to prepaid options, and that activity figures to increase over time, as people’s contracts will run out. A new player will join the game, bringing flat-rate, unl...