Text Messages more popular than Calls

Many big mobile providers have issued that text messaging has become more popular than making calls, this is no surprise to here as text messages tend to be cheaper and at times quicker than making a call.

Reports showed that a typical mobile subscriber sends or receives around 357 text messages per month, compared to placing or receiving 204 phone calls. Looking back over the past few years the number of calls remained relatively steady but the number of text messages is up 450% from just two years prior a huge increase showing text messages is taking over.

The biggest number of texts sent is from the ages of 13 -18 year old with reports showing the send and receive on average around 1,750 texts a month.

The reasons for this huge increase in texts is due to the ease it is in which to text this can now be done by sending SMS from PC, pay as you go mobile and also on contact phones. Although phone calls are just as easy to be made for many people it is trendier to send a text which can be straight to the point and sent from many places.

Battery Suppliers

In today’s modern day technology everything runs from batteries, You rely on batteries to wake you up in the morning, you rely on them the start your car, you rely on batteries to to phone your boss to warn them you are going to be late, you might rely on a battery to operate the mouse you use at work or to make sure the keyword is still functioning, You may rely on a battery to power the laptop you are using when you go out for an important meeting. You will use your car battery to get back home. A battery chicken might provide the eggs for the omelet you are eating and when you relax in the evening it will be the power from a battery that will change the channel on the TV. If you have Children then you enter a whole different ball game. Radio control cars will eat batteries no end and only a few hours on a Nintendo Wii means a change of batteries, Maybe you have an Xbox which also drains batteries!

Were is all this going? im not really sure but it is making me wonder if opening a Battery shop is a good idea!! You can buy batteries from a lot of different places, but.. there isn’t a one stop high street shop for buying your batteries. If you look online there are some brilliant battery suppliers were you can buy wholesale batteries at good prices. You could realistically stock all sorts of batteries (apart from car batteries!!) and make money from it, The battery industry is so vast these days with mobile phones and wireless controllers for game systems the demand for a battery is higher now than it ever has been.

Barclaycard, Orange enter into partnership on mobile-payment technology

Credit card company Barclaycard and mobile phone operator Orange UK have entered into a strategic partnership to develop mobile-wallet handsets and mobile- payment technology.

Two partners will launch new services and products to enable their combined customer base of 28 million to use their mobiles and make payments with adoption of mobile contactless technology. Read more

60% of world’s population using mobile phones, says United Nations

According to a latest survey conducted by the United Nations, sixty percent of people in the world are now using mobile phones, at the subscription rate of 4.1 billion per year. The data reveals increase of around 1 billion in number of mobile phone users since 2002. Read more

Nokia likely to enter laptop business

A proposal to enter laptop business is under active consideration, declared Olli-Pekka Kallavuo, chief executive of the world’s top mobile-phone maker Nokia, in an interview to Finnish broadcaster YLE.

When asked if Nokia planned to make laptops, he replied that it was looking very actively at that opportunity. Read more

Motorola launches 4G mobile broadband trials in the UK

Motorola, makers of communications equipment, has started UK trials of 4G mobile broadband technology.

Trials have commenced at its Swindon testing facility. These involve use of prototype LTE device for testing live calls with data streaming. Trials will also make use of 2.6Hz spectrum band which is scheduled for auction this year. Read more

Truphone extends free Skype, Twitter service to iPhone clients

Truphone, the internet telephony company, announced new functionality at the Mac World 2009 Expo, which will allow its subscribers who are using Apple’s handhelds to use a free client for Twitter, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Skype two-way communications, starting 12th January 2009. Read more

Apple releases firmware updates to address notebook problems

Apple has issued several firmware updates for fixing glitches in its latest batch of Mac notebooks.

These updates are released for the new MacBook, MacBook Air and Macbook Pro, produced in October 2008. However, Apple withheld any information about issues except disclosing that the EFI firmware improves stability. Read more

Mobile operators eager to promote mobile web usage on iPhone-type devices

Mobile operators are looking for iPhone-type devices to enhance mobile web usage and there are chances that more handsets are going to come out in market which specialise in set of selected functions. Read more

iPhone 3G widens O2 UK customer base

The launch of iPhone 3G has helped O2 UK add three-and-half times more mobile customers to its base in third quarter, repeating its last year performance in the same quarter.

Financial results published by Telefonica, the Spanish parent of mobile operator, described O2 UK’s performance as best-ever third quarter in 2008.

O2 UK now has 19.1 million strong customer base which is 6.6% more than it was in third quarter of 2007. It is also the largest-ever customer base in the UK.

According to Telefonica’s statement, the biggest contributor to O2 UK’s growth was its UK exclusivity on the iPhone 3G handset and O2’s ‘Simplicity’ pre-pay tariffs. The statement also pointed out that O2 UK’s regional sales structure was one more factor which helped in achieving impressive performance in the small-business market.

The financial results also indicated that fewer customers (1.3%) left O2 UK in 3rd quarter of 2008 than in the same quarter in 2007 (1.75%).

Though average revenue per user (ARPU) registered a fall, total ARPU remained unchanged since O2’s data ARPU continued to grow.

Data ARPU was up 8.9% year-on-year due to significant rise in mobile internet usage. Revenues from Non-SMS data jumped by 61.1% on a year-on-year basis.

By the end of third quarter, O2 UK had 267,090 DSL broadband customers.

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