Bazaarvoice Introduces MobileVoice, Bringing Product Reviews to the Mobile Device and Into the Retail Store (Centre Daily Times)
Bazaarvoice , the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today introduced MobileVoice, a new service that delivers authentic product reviews directly to shoppers phones in the store or mall. With MobileVoice, Bazaarvoice clients can now easily provide reviews to mobile users in order to help shoppers narrow their choices and buy the right product. …
Source: www.centredaily.com
Top Kitchen Toy? The Cellphone (New York Times)
Mobile phones have become high-tech cooking tools, transforming the kitchen lives of many Americans.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Finnish agency recommends limiting children’s use of mobile phones (EARTHtimes.org)
Helsinki – Children’s use of mobile phones should be limited, with text messaging often preferable to talking on the handset, the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) says. The agency’s recommendations were made in a new position pap…
Source: www.earthtimes.org
Infineon Ships 100 Million Chips for Low-Cost Mobile Phones (Cellular-News.com)
Infineon Technologies says that it has shipped its 100 millionth low-cost mobile phone chipsets. The X-GOLD101 (E-GOLDvoice) mobile communications chip is the second generation of Infineon s integrated baseband chips for GSM/GPRS.
Source: www.cellular-news.com
New music services for mobile phones (Toowoomba Chronicle)
A LARGE number of new music services are being rolled out around the world by major mobile phone makers who believe there is huge potential.
Source: www.thechronicle.com.au
Firms to collect used cell phones (The Japan Times)
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry wants to require companies to collect used mobile phones to help Japan’s efforts to secure precious metals, officials said Tuesday. Cell phones and other electronics products are being likened to “urban mines” because they are embedded with precious or rare metals, including gold, silver, nickel and lithium. Read the full story
Source: search.japantimes.co.jp
Test of marketing as iPhone 3G mobile phones make their debut (The Nation – Thailand’s English news)
True Move’s iPhone 3G mobile phones, which made their debut last Friday, got an overwhelming welcome from businessmen to hi-so people but it remains to be seen if True Move can meet the sales target. True Move executives showed mixed feelings of happiness and anxiety when not only those pre-registered for the phones went to pick up the devices at the launch event in Siam Paragon’s Royal Paragon …
Source: www.nationmultimedia.com
85% of consumers frustrated with mobile phone complexity (Geek.com)
A survey carried out by mobile device management company Mformation; has found high levels of frustration among UK and US consumers when it comes to using mobile phones. The problem lies with the complexity involved in setting up and using a new mobile phone for the wide range of services they now offer. The survey [...]
Source: www.geek.com
