By: Stephen Joos

Cuba announced today that they are opening up mobile phone service to the general public. This seems to be the first step in expanding freedoms to the island’s residents and openness of communication with the outside world. Previously, cell phone service was limited to government officials or people working for foreign companies.

We welcome Cuba to the mobile world, and look forward to seeing how this increase in communication affects the country and its neighbors.

By: Chris Brubaker

Finishing our two part series on Texting Gone Wrong is scams. Last week we talked about spamming and the negative affects it has on the texting industry (Text Spam). This week we’re focusing on texting scams and shady business practices.
 

Premium Texting
What does text messaging cost? Usually around $0.15 to […]

By: Chris Brubaker
Wifi, WiMax, Bluetooth, GSM, our world is becoming ever increasingly wireless. At the end of 2007, experts estimated there were 3 Billion people with mobile phones, and predicted by 2009 that number would reach 4 Billion. Being wireless and having access to information on the go is becoming easier and more […]

By: Chris Brubaker

This isn’t the longest list we’ve ever had but none the less it’s Monday and it’s time for some celeb real estate news, enjoy this week’s Hot Properties.
 
Gilbert Adler
You may not have heard of Glibert Alder specifically but I’m sure you’ve seen his work. Alder has produced a great deal of Hollywood […]

By: Chris Brubaker

Have you ever wondered how much information is on the WWW?
Well a study by IDC tried to answer that question, using a complex formula they put together an estimation as to how much information is on the Internet. What they came up with is that in 2007 there were 281 Billion gigabytes […]

By: Chris Brubaker

 
In this two part series, I’m going to talk about two key problems in the SMS (text messaging) industry affecting growth and innovation; spam and shady business practices.

Spam
Let’s first start out with some numbers. In 2006, 800 million spam text messages were sent, in 2007 that number increased to 1.1 […]