Here's another quick story that caught our attention from China, along with the Ericsson piece from earlier. China Mobile has apparently launched a preview version of an upcoming mobile application store today.
Topics: app store, China Mobile, mobile app store, mobile application, Mobile applications, mobile carrier, Mobile Content, Mobile Devices, mobile market, mobile network, mobile news, mobile operator, Mobile Operators, mobile platform

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Research just released shows that at the end 2008, there were 1.47 active mobile phone accounts in South Africa per user. The figures show 50 million phones in the country - but the entire population is somewhere around 48 million, including those too...
Topics: Mobile Agencies, mobile analytics, Mobile Banking, mobile carrier, Mobile Devices, mobile internet, mobile network, mobile news, mobile operator, SIM, world wide worx

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We've been watching with huge interest as mobile phones become a more and more reliable way to pay for goods. We've seen a staggering number of services launched in the past few months. But the trust issues that consumers have when using their...
Topics: Mobile Agencies, Mobile Devices, mobile finance, mobile internet, mobile news, mobile payment, mobile payments, mobile sms, mobile top 5, SMS

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Orange, official sponsors last week’s Glastonbury Festival, today reveals that Lady Gaga and The Specials hit the right note among Glastonbury festival-goers, with call volumes peaking between 9 and 10pm last Friday night when both acts were on stage...
Topics: michael jackson, mobile analytics, Mobile Messaging, orange, SMS, traffic

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JAGTAG has an interesting deal going with Sports Illustrated. The idea is this - you take a shot of a JAGTAG mobile barcode that appears in Sports Illustrated, and you send it to a shortcode. In return, you get pics of Sports Illustrated swimwear models..
Topics: cameraphone, jagtag, Mobile Agencies, Mobile barcodes, Mobile Content, mobile MMS, mobile news, mobile pictures, sports illustrated

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