No matter where you go, it’s impossible to escape talk of social networking sites. Newspapers are littered with stories and someone will undoubtedly mention the name of a particular site before your day is out. Recently there’s been lots in the news about the boom of social networking sites, but what about mobile social networking sites?  (more…)

The world wide web means business today is rarely limited to a single country and it’s often the case that an employee will visit a foreign speaking country at some point in their career. With this in mind, this week I was really impressed by a few very clever translation tools.  (more…)

Following the comments in my last blog entry about growth of the US mobile messaging market, here’s a quick snapshot of Australia’s texting activities.  With mobile phones increasing in popularity as a method of communication down under, Australians are set to send more than ten billion text messages this year.   (more…)

An interesting article by Evan Schuman on his “Storefrontbacktalk” site describes how Wal-Mart’s highly secretive testing of SMS marketing in Dec-07 highlighted two important lessons:

• SMS messages are supposed to be punchy: don’t try and cram too much in
• Our mobile phones are also very personal: don’t abuse this by sending too many messages.  (more…)

James’ blog entry on Wal-Mart raised a very interesting point about the use of business messaging in America, particularly with his ending comment,

“This was in the US, surely yet another sign that the States is opening up to the opportunities for business messaging.”  (more…)

The surge of people using the text message to communicate raises an arguable question – should the text message become a formalised mode of communication?

A court heard recently that the City of Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, declared under oath that he did not have an affair with his chief of staff nor did he fire two police officers in a retaliatory manner. However, text messages between the mayor and his chief of staff suggested otherwise and brought his testimony into question.   (more…)

Today is the day to declare your love for someone, so I thought that this was rather appropriate.

As Valentine’s Day falls midweek this year, there’s a very high chance that you and your loved one won’t be in the same place all day, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t send sweet nothings to each other. According to AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph) Valentine’s Day is the most popular holiday for text messaging, resulting in a 33% spike in SMS traffic.  (more…)