Mobile Engagement Resource Center

A group of Istanbul Bilgi University students have launched a web project to allow “citizen journalists” to report on the 2011 election campaign across the country. The website, http://secim2011.crowdmap.com, is a Turkish version of the Ushahidi website which uses the concept of crowdsourcing via multiple channels, including SMS, email, Twitter and the Internet, to provide [...]

According to The Mobile World, there are now 1.32 billion fixed lines and 5.60 billion mobile. This compares with the US Census Bureau’s global population estimate of 6.915 billion. Of course this doesn’t mean every earthling has a phone, just that there are enough pampered Westerners with two, three of more to take the total [...]

The issue of the SMS boarding pass can be automatic. When they book their flight customers can request either SMS or email delivery of the boarding pass and it will be delivered 24 hours before they are due to fly. Customers holding an SMS boarding pass without check-in baggage can go straight to the boarding [...]

Western Railway has launched a campaign under which it will send one crore SMSes in a month to spread awareness against trespassing. “Western Railway has launched an SMS campaign to spread awareness among the commuters against the dangers of trespassing. It is aimed at educating the public on trespassing and persuade them to not cross [...]

According to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, 56.4 billion texts were sent in Canada in 2010, up 60 per cent from the 35.3 billion sent the previous year. Of those texts sent in 2010, about 2.3 billion were of the common short code text variety, which are often used to interact with businesses and charities. [...]

Dale Hoyt sees his cardiologist every six weeks at Massachusetts General Hospital, but he’s never out of touch for long. Every day, he checks his blood pressure, heart rate, and weight and logs them on his iPhone, and periodically he e-mails the data to Dr. Kimberly Parks. Hoyt, 60, of Berlin, Conn., has congestive heart [...]

Expecting mothers in the developing world don’t have much. They often don’t even have doctors. And they die in childbirth at an appalling rate. But there is a good chance they have cell phones–more than a billion poor, rural women have one. Instead of finding ways to get doctors out to every woman, we can [...]

Designer Dominic Wilcox has come up with a Pinocchio-style “finger-nose stylus” that lets you navigate your touchscreen phone hands-free. He came up with the design after he found that he wanted to use his touchphone in the bath. A wet hand is not a good touchscreen navigation device, so he found himself using his nose [...]

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) says that borrowers whose loans are serviced by its student loan servicing operations, American Education Services and FedLoan Servicing, can now make payments directly from their web-enabled cell phones and smartphones. Read the complete story at Times Leader