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Disney adds new iPad app to dive deeper into m-commerce

09/27/2011 Julie Campbell

Disney has announced that they will be jumping even further into mobile commerce with their new iPad app that will allow customers to purchase products from their mobile device no matter where or when they want to buy. The app is quite similar to the website of the company, with functions and a design that resemble one another. This Disney Store app is only the latest in a full strategy of efforts that Disney is making in order to set its place in the m-commerce world. Other elements of this…

Mobile websites and text message marketing form a solid strategy

09/18/201109/18/2011 Sam Lambert

In the newly created world of mobile marketing, the combinations and techniques are always being tested and recreated in order to determine what can be used to most effectively engage customers and generate revenues. It may not be obvious why at a first glance, but mobile websites and text messaging, together, are being called one of the most powerful combinations in mobile marketing. With text message marketing, a shortcode can be used to allow the user to interact with your company or your brand. The interaction begins when the user…

Research report shows that 60 percent of 2010 non-voice mobile revenues were from SMS

09/16/201109/16/2011 Jennifer Goula

According to a report issued by Portio Research, SMS messaging still leads the revenues from non-voice mobile, representing 60 percent of the income, which was worth about $179.2 billion in 2010. This was the fifth edition of the report entitled Mobile Messaging Futures 2011-2015, and it forecasted that by the completion of 2011, the mobile market will have passed $200 billion, that in 2014 it will break the $300 billion mark, and that the end of 2015 will mean $334.7 billion. The research published within the report also described the…

New spam regulations for SMS in India to become effective on September 27

09/07/201109/07/2011 Jennifer Goula

According to a Telecom Regulator TRI notice, India’s new SMS spam regulations will go into effect on September 27, 2011. This comes on the heels of an announcement made by that nation’s Telecom minister, Kapil Sibal, which was made last month regarding SMS spam. It is the hope that through the new regulation, unsolicited bulk SMS providers will no longer be able to send these incessant mobile marketing messages. In August, Sibal had promised that this practice would come to a halt within six weeks, and this recent announcement shows…

UK charity provides young people in crisis with support through SMS

08/24/2011 Sam Lambert

SAFE@LAST, a charity that provides young people in crisis with support when they are considering running away, has partnered with Txtlocal, a top UK communications and mobile marketing company to provide additional services using SMS. SAFE@LAST offers a number of services that range from crisis intervention to prevention. They required a new method that would allow at-risk young people to access their services easily and inexpensively, and SMS was the clear choice. Young people can now use the award winning Txtlocal control panel to send text messages to the SAFE@LAST…