UME

UNIVERSAL MOBILE ENTERAINMENT

http://www.universalmobileentertainment.com/

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APLICACIONES:

SMS is not just for ordering and delivering content; it's a great medium for engaging in simple games
and activities. UME's SMS applications offer the best combination of content, service and hosting,
enabling our partners to roll-out new games, localized and managed via secure web interfaces, easily
and quickly.

UME's SMS games are proven traffic and revenue generators, in some markets exceeding the
performance of ringtones! With a wealth of market experience and tested marketing techniques,
we look forward to helping you establish and grow your SMS application portfolio.

http://www.aapp.com/site/applications/sms.html

LA COMPAÑÍA:

Mobile Entertainment is Universal

Universal Mobile Entertainment, Ltd. (UME) is a media company singularly focused on entertainment
services for use on mobile handsets and networks. Based in the multi-cultural country of Israel and
with its roots firmly planted in development and production, UME brings professional entertainment
and media sensibilities to the mobile medium.

Entertainment Mobile Value Added Services (EMVAS) offer significant revenue and growth potential.
Harnessing this potential requires popular service formats, cutting-edge content, fast implementation,
focused marketing and robust delivery platforms. UME offers a full-spectrum solution to all of these
challenges in uniquely tailored packages to meet each of its partners' requirements.

UME's Modular Solution System (MSS) enables each of our partners to select the service package that
best compliments their existing capabilities and areas of expertise. MSS means that whether you are
looking strictly for top-quality mobile content, a turnkey mobile EMVAS solution or anything in
between, UME has a service package tailored to your needs.

Tu plaza.es por SMS

www.tuplaza.es

AFP móvil

Su actividad: Telefonía móvil

Con AFP Móvil, las últimas informaciones en tiempo real, con productos Multimedia adaptados a todos los usos móviles. Una plataforma de optimización y de publicación, con contenido valioso, confiable y de fácil integración.

AFP Mobile

24h/24, 7d/7, los periodistas de AFPTV, presentes en una veintena de países y que se apoya en la red mundial de la AFP, producen reportajes exclusivos, entrevistas e imágenes del mundo entero.

TEXTO

AFP Direct Pocket permite acceder a los servicios de información de AFP en tiempo real, en formato móvil y ofrece funcionalidades de búsqueda avanzada.

MULTIMEDIA

El Diario Móvil es un derivado del Diario Internet especialmente concebido para los teléfonos móviles

FOTO

Centenas de fotógrafos cubren la información general, la cultura, el entretenimiento, el deporte... Editores y otros colaboradores editan y describen cada día entre 1500 y 2500 fotos de gran calidad técnica en nuestras 165 oficinas a través del mundo

Fuente:

http://www.afp.com/afpcom/es/taglibrary/activity/mobile

Texting takes off but has perils

Texting takes off but has perils
Paul Gilster

Published: Oct 01, 2008 12:30 AM

What's better than talking on telephones in public places? Cell phone addicts already know the answer -- sending text messages.
In June, Americans sent 75 billion text messages, an increase of more than 160 percent from the previous June. Texting is paying off royally for carriers, who have boosted the cost of sending messages without a texting plan 100 percent over the past two years.
They're now offering plans for unlimited texting running $20 per month on top of the normal phone charges.
If it seems unbelievable that mobile subscribers send and receive 357 text messages per month (according to Nielsen Mobile), the consequences make the statistic seem more ominous than trendy. The recent commuter train accident in California might have been caused by an engineer who was texting en route. A study by Britain's Royal Automotive Club found that reaction times of texting drivers are worse than those who are legally drunk.
Let's couple that with another appalling result: Nearly 50 percent of 18- to 24-year-old drivers say they text while they drive. Texting means taking hands off the wheel, using your thumbs to manipulate a tiny keypad, and trying to read text on a tiny screen. It also involves putting your brain into lockdown while you try to figure out what you want to text next.
Drivers yakking on cell phones are enough of a hazard. When will we get smart and ban hand-held phone use in moving vehicles?

Reach Paul A. Gilster, the Raleigh author of several technology books, at gilster@mindspring.com.

Source:

http://www.newsobserver.com/299/story/1238664.html

United States SMS RECORD

US mobile users break SMS text messaging record!

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Just how many SMS text messages do US wireless users go through each month, day, or hour? According to VeriSign, a veritable boatload - a technical term, to be sure.
The Mountain View, CA.-based company has announced that it ferried about 95.4 billion SMS text messages between wireless carriers in the 1H 2008. The volume of text messages set a new record for text messages sent in the first half of any year to date. Add to that the fact that VeriSign pushed through a record-breaking 648 million texts in a single day and 42 million text messages in a single one-hour window, and it becomes clear that more and more users are becoming savvy to the SMS text messaging craze.
Q2 2008 alone saw 52 billion messages zipping through the wireless airwaves, with daily averages in the period hitting 572 million messages - more than double the average daily volume of 230 million messages in Q2 2007.
What’s to account for the boost in text message usage? It’s most likely a combination of increased wireless penetration in the US, an increase in savvy consumers with SMS-friendly keyboard-toting smartphones, and perhaps the prevalence of mobile phones among the younger demographics.
In the end, we’ll likely see SMS text messages take a back seat to instant messaging and email services that aren’t subject to per-message fees or messaging limits.

source:

http://www.intomobile.com/2008/08/28/us-mobile-users-break-sms-text-messaging-record.html

U.S. text messaging activity breaks record

August 27 2008

EDT Colin Gibbs RCR Wireless NewsComment on this storyTriple-tapping continues to explode, according to new figures from VeriSign Inc.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it delivered 95.4 billion inter-carrier text messages in the first half of 2008, establishing a new record for text messaging activity during the period. VeriSign also reported a single-day record of 648 million texts and a one-hour record of 42 million messages.
The company said it delivered more than 52 billion messages during the second quarter of 2008, up more than 20% from the previous quarter. It saw a daily average of 572 million messages, more than doubling the 230 million per day during the second quarter of 2007.
Text message usage is expected to grow in the near future as the application continues to gain mass-market traction in North America and some emerging markets. But mobile instant messaging eventually will cannibalize SMS and computer-based e-mail, according to a recent study from TNS Technology, as users eschew messaging fees in favor of all-you-can-eat data plans.

Source:

http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20080827/WIRELESS/808279989/-1/808279989/

Récord de SMS en Estados Unidos

Récord de SMS en Estados Unidos

Según parece, 95.400 millones de mensajes SMS es lo que se ha enviado en Estados Unidos a lo largo del primer semestre de 2008. El récord también ha llegado con los 648 millones de SMS en un solo día y 42 millones de mensajes de texto en una hora está poniendo de manifiesto la locura por la mensajería SMS en este país.
Lo más probable es que una combinación en la penetración de dispositivos móviles y la venta de smartphones que disponen de teclado completo junto al gran crecimiento de terminales móviles en los jóvenes han sido el punto que faltaba para disparar estas cifras.

Fuente:

http://www.ojomoviles.com/noticias/record-de-sms-en-estados-unidos/

ENVIO SMS

http://www.phones.com/accounts/login/?next=/sms/

EU Caps Roaming Fees for Text Messages

EU Caps Roaming Fees for Text Messages

Tuesday, 02 September 2008
The Associated Press

BRUSSELS, Belgium.-

Are mobile phone companies taking advantage of teenagers' addiction to chatting in text messages? The top telecommunications regulator for the European Union believes so, and said Tuesday that a limit should be placed on the cost of international texts.
EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding said she wanted to see roaming fees for text messages fall by up to 70 percent. She said she will put forward rules in October to cap charges.
Europeans traveling outside their home nations send 2.5 billion text messages every year - paying 10 times more than they do at home.
"We are punishing our young students, our young travelers, and that is completely unfair," Reding said.
On average in the EU, sending a text while traveling abroad costs 29 euro cents (46 U.S. cents) per message, but that can climb to 80 euro cents ($1.27) in certain countries, such as Belgium.
Telecom regulators from the EU's 27 nations want to see that fall into a range of 11 to 15 euro cents (17 to 24 U.S. cents) for each message.
Reding's attack on text messages comes just a year after the EU capped the costs of voice calls made and received abroad. Costs for those calls have dropped by up to 60 percent since last summer.

Source:
http://article.wn.com/view/2008/07/15/EU_wants_to_cap_costs_on_phone_text_messages_gq/