CellTrust, a leading provider of secure mobile messaging and applications, has won two of the Mobile Marketing Association's (MMA) Fourth Annual Global Mobile Marketing Awards 2008, for Best Use of Mobile Marketing: Relationship Building for the North American region, as well as the Global award in the same category. CellTrust was selected for its project with the Yearling Harlem Success Acad...

Bad news for those who are thinking of using T-Mobile To Go prepaid. Prior to this week, their text messaging rates were among the best for major carrier prepaid. You could send messages for 10 cents, and receive them for 5 cents. However, it appears that has changed. I found it first on Howard Forum, and now it’s even on the official T-Mobile site. Text messaging will be 20 cents to send an...

Remember the report we had a few months back about the increasing cost of text messaging? Well, it appears that Senator Herb Kohl sent a letter last month to the heads of the four largest wireless carriers in the United States on precisely this matter. In his letter, Kohl noted that at 160 characters per message, text messages are very small and costs little to transmit. Referring t...

Enterprises and financial institutions continue to show growing interest in mobile messaging. Over the last year, the total number of messages delivered rose from 129 to 227 million, marking a 115 percent increase. The big jump in enterprise mobile messaging follows the overall text messaging trend that VeriSign calls a fast-growing global trend. - Enterprises followed the surging interest in text...

- First National Bank Uses Clickatell to Improve Customer Service - Santam Uses Clickatell to Save Money and Increase Customer Loyalty Redwood City, CA, November 12, 2008 – Clickatell, leading global mobile messaging provider, has been shortlisted for two outstanding implementations in the “Best Customer Services Provider” category. First National Bank (FNB) and Santam are both ....

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) and U.S. Cellular announce the availability of the Samsung Delve™ (SCH-r800). The Samsung Delve’s full touchscreen design features tactile haptic feedback, which gives users a vibrating pulse when items are selected. The Samsung Delve can instantly shift to landscape mode, creating a virtual QWERTY touchpad for easy text messaging whi...

Finnish consultant and investor, Matti Makkonen, received earlier this month The Economist’s Innovation Award of Computing and Telecommunications for his work on Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging. The idea of the SMS services was first discussed by Matti Makkonen in a pizzeria in Copenhagen with two other Finns, Seppo Tiainen and Juhani Tapiol. The discussiontook place during a conf...

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) and U.S. Cellular announce the availability of the Samsung Delve™ (SCH-r800). The Samsung Delve’s full touchscreen design features tactile haptic feedback, which gives users a vibrating pulse when items are selected. The Samsung Delve can instantly shift to landscape mode, creating a virtual QWERTY touchpad for easy text messaging whi...

Even though text messaging popular withyoung adults under 30 (67 percent use the function), a surprisingly high number of people under 30 also would like to have email services on their cell phone New research fromSprint shows, 29 percent of people under 30 who are also large consumers of other data applications, such as texting and sending photos, would like to have the ability to send email from...

Although more than 67 percent of mobile subscribers under the age of 30 use text messaging services, 29 percent of under-30 consumers also desire the ability to send and receive email via wireless device according to a new customer research from Sprint. The operator also reports 55 percent of subscribers under 30 (the largest demographic in terms of text messaging and photo sharing use) currently ...