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  • 200 million Chinese mobile users get spam SMS

    In a country the size of China with all those hundreds of millions of subscribers, when things go wrong, they can go wrong on a very large scale. Just ask China Mobile. According to Xinhua, seven online advertising firms “arbitrarily sent commercial text messages to over 200 million cell phone users” on China Mobile and [...]

  • ALSO NOTED: RIM launches SMB software; U.K. subscribers send 1 billion texts per week; and more...

    > Research in Motion debuted a new software geared to the small/medium business market that will enable them to offer their employees better security and control of their email and mobile Internet at an affordable price--just $499 for five users. Press release > The Mobile Data Association reports that U.K. subscribers are sending more than 1.2 billion text messages per week, the same amount that was sent during the entire year in 1999. Compared to 2006, text messaging in the U.K. has grown 25 percent. Release And finally... China apparently is looking forward to hosting the Olympics. Story

  • SMS, Ringtones To Dominate Chinese Market Until 2010: Analyst

    China is a huge mobile market and will just get bigger...at the moment mobile data revenues come mostly from SMS and ringtones, and while new services are going into the market it's going to be a while before they make much of a dent. New mobile applications in China include 2D barcodes, instant messaging, GPS location and navigation and near-field communication mobile payments, according to Sandy Shen, China research director at Gartner in ZDNet Asia via BusinessWeek . "But despite the practical value 2D barcode and NFC payment can offer to users, she said, such applications will take a while to emerge due to "fragmentation of the technology and phone platforms, and complications in the business model"...Therefore, the majority of the carriers' mobile data revenue will still come from SMS and ringtones/ring-back tones--at least till 2010" according to Shen. The reason is quite simple—both SMS and ringtones are cheap, easy to use and work on all phones. The majority of Chinese won't be able to afford high-end phones with high-end applications for a while, but the sheer size of the market means that even the small percentage which can afford the top range models numbers in the tens of millions.
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  • Google To Add SMS Service To Search In China

    Google will add mobile messaging functions to its online search in China, according to reports in TMCnet . "When people search local information on the Internet, for example, I need to look for a certain hotel near Wangfujing, a modern shopping site and a popular tourist attraction for Chinese and foreigners in Beijing, capital of China," the executive elaborated. "After finding its name, address, and telephone number, I will see a nearby pop-up box and then my mobile phone will quickly receive these information as I write my own phone number in the box." Although it appears to be a small business, it is able to serve all the mobile phone users including low-end ones, who can take an opportunity of freely enjoying a mobile search service Google offers, the executive said." China's WAP service is still slow (after countless delays in issuing 3G licenses) but messaging works fine. The message service will be free as Google tries to build market share.
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  • Construction of chemical plant haulted by 1M text messages

    Filed under: Culture , Messaging , Misc Voting might be something that we take for granted (unless it's the Engadget Awards , song requests , or American Idol ) but everyone likes to take a stand for something and have their opinion heard. Residents from Xiamen, a city in the southeastern province of China , protested the building of a new chemical plant by sending over one million text messages to the city government. The chemical plant would produce paraxylene which is used in production of plastics, polyester and film. The Center for Disease Control states that the stuff could be dangerous in long term exposure, even causing death and or affecting the central nervous system. Needless to say, the council decided to halt construction after "careful deliberation." [Via textually.org ] Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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