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UK Kids Go Mobile

UK Kids Go Mobile
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In association with New Media Age, Intuitive Media has carried out research into its SuperClubsPLUS and GoldStar Cafe community membership.

They surveyed over 1500 children and asked how they use their mobile phones. Here are a few of the findings:

• 72% of the children aged 7 - 13 own their own mobile phones, 53% of 8 to 9 year old own their own mobile phone,
• Music: 29% of children say they share music with their friends via Bluetooth, 21% say they like to play music out loud in public places,
• Safety: 23% of girls and 16% of boys said they had received bad message on their mobile phones. The messages ranged from unwanted advertising to insults from friends, bullying, rude messages and images, to scary and threatening calls;
  11% of children said their parents give them no rules about using the Internet on their mobile phones. Of those who had given rules, they related to:
  • 17% money,
  • 12% behaviour,
  • 10% talking to strangers.

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Crickee Baby !

Crickee Baby
Originally uploaded by crickee.

GSM mobile users hit two billion mark
China, India, Africa and Latin America responsible for the latest spurt!

more at VNUnet

It had been a very difficult work to raise 2 billion little Crickees ... but we are now proud to announce to you that on the xx of June, Crickee Baby will ....

Technorati Tags: Mobile ; GSMA

Mobile IM poised to overtake SMS, analysts say

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Citing growth rates of the respective services, telecom consulting firm Ovum is predicting that mobile instant messaging will replace SMS as the de facto text messaging solution some time in the next five years. This has operators scrambling, and analysts pontificating, on how the outrageous profits made from SMS will be replaced. One of the compelling features of SMS for operators is a lack of status -- there's no way to know whether a user is able to immediately receive your text, but your carrier will be happy to take your coin regardless. From the user's perspective, SMS is an inherent, universal feature of every mobile phone sold today, which gives us a level of integration that mobile IM won't likely see any time soon. With IM, on the other hand, user status is a common feature, and you might be less likely to send a message to someone who can't receive it. Carriers are slowly making moves to embrace IM, but it's unclear how, or even if, they'll be able to fully recoup lost SMS income in the long run when it's being overrun by a universal, virtually free, data-based system.

Fly Crickee Fly !

Via engadgetmobile & textually.org

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The next mutation of mobile messaging

In a nutshell, here is the field in which Crickee is playing ... The Street.com

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Mobile advertising from USD255M in 2005 to USD1b in 2009

Visiongain
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According to a study released in March by Visiongain, mobile advertising is already here and fast growing, as 2005's revenues are already over 250 Million dollars in Europe and US only.

This study shows that we are at the very beginning of the Mobile Advertising revolution, and seems to announce that the shape, the quality of Mobile advertising will differ from what we know on the more traditional medias. We should all gain from this in term of the usefulness of advertising (relevancy, timeliness, etc) and cost of communications (paid by Ads rather that users' money!).

Crickee is definitely looking to not only make you text free, but help you grab nice opportunities, direct from your mobile... announcements soon on this! more

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Worldwide mobile phone sales will continue to grow!

NetworkWorld
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An interesting article read on Networkworld shows that Nokia increased its forecast for worldwide mobile phones sales in 2006.

They now expect mobile device sales to grow 15% in 2006, to 915 million units, up from their previous forecast of 10% growth.

Nokia also points that 80% of the next 1 billion subscribers will come from emerging markets, including half a billion from China and Asia-Pacific. Their global forecast is 3 billion subscribers worldwide in 2008. Many potential crickee addicts !

Full story at Networkworld

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Text Messaging is a huge market …

Crickee Contacts Screen
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Revenue generated by texting (USD 75b) bypass movie industry (USD 30b) or video game (USD 40b) .... for sure Crickee is on a huge market ...

By the way, do not forget to adopt a tiny Crickee ...

more info at Engadget Mobile

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