Nokia buys Enpocket.
"Nokia has acquired privately-held mobile advertising firm Enpocket for an undisclosed sum. The purchase gives Nokia control of the company's technology, which can be used to manage mobile advertising campaigns and provide targeted adverts."
From Computing. Also reported in The Register
Smart poster trials.
Computing (p. 6, 18 September 2007) reports on a trial by Transport for London to provide transport information via near-field communication. Nineteen posters have been embedded with the technology that allows specially enabled handsets to read information such as where customers should go for the next stage of their trip.
iPhone Outsells Smartphones.
...in July, according to research by iSuppli, reported in eWeek. "iSuppli reiterated its forecast that Apple would sell 4.5 million iPhones this year, rising to more than 30 million in 2011. The two models of the iPhone on the market sold more than Research in Motion's Blackberry series, the entire Palm portfolio and any individual smartphone model from Motorola, Nokia or Samsung. Sales equaled those of LG Electronics' Chocolate, the most popular feature phone on the U.S. market, iSuppli said."
Parental control on mobiles.
"The software, loaded on to the phone and managed over the web, lets users filter inappropriate websites, control all SMS and MMS messaging and block expensive premium SMS numbers. Effectively, parents could use it to control what sites their kids looked at on their mobile phones, what messages they received and the people they contacted." Reported in the The Sydney Morning Herald..
Children consume more media.
From The Economist, Aug 25 2007, p. 34: "Not only are children spending more time consuming media than their older siblings did just a few years ago, but they are also consuming more types. Three-quarters of British 11-year-olds now have their own television set, video-games player and mobile phone." But at the cost of old media.
Of children aged 8-15:
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