Mobile Engagement Resource Center

We just discovered an incredible new option (presumably in beta) for select administrators and promoters of Facebook Public Profiles – you can text to become a fan of select businesses, organizations, politicians, or official entities on Facebook! Go ahead, try this out by fanning our firm – Text fan theKbuzz to FBOOK (32665) to become [...]

Barack Obama, Twitter’s second most popular user (CNN has passed him), updated his Twitter account today for the first time since taking office.The update is to promote the President’s online town hall, which encourages citizens to submit questions via The White House website. Obama will be responding to some of the most popular questions – [...]

JAKARTA, March 20 (Xinhua) — Indonesia will broadcast the information of 2009 general election that scheduled on April 9 via short message service (SMS) to around 155 million cell phone users nationwide, the commission and telecommunication officials said on Friday. “With the help of 10 telecommunication operators, we hope the SMS service subscribers be aware [...]

GomoText, a provider of mobile marketing solutions, reportedly announced its provision of one month of free services along with a reduction of fees by 50 percent for all its new clients. The discounted rates and free service offer is available only to new customers for a limited period of time. Customers taking advantage of the [...]

Cops handed out a staggering 9,000 summonses in one day to drivers who were caught yapping on their cell phones. During a 24-hour crackdown Thursday, police zeroed in on motor-mouthed motorists, giving 9,016 of them $120 summonses. The NYPD warned drivers through media outlets that cops would be on the lookout for drivers who talk on [...]

Normally, PR firms are pitching us start-ups, not creating them. That’s not the case with Twendz, a new Twitter tool from the folks at Waggener Edstrom. It pulls in the latest tweets on any given topic, and shows you what the overall user sentiment is, be it positive or negative. This is cleverly wrapped up [...]

Google stepped up its attack on the telecommunications industry on Thursday with a free service called Google Voice that, if successful, could chip away at the revenue of companies big and small, like eBay, which owns Skype, telephone companies and a string of technology start-up firms. Google Voice is an expanded version of a service [...]

NEW DELHI (AFP) – Amidst all the economic gloom, one business is still booming — India’s mobile phones — thanks to the world’s lowest call rates driven by fierce competition among cellular operators, experts say. And while economists forecast a sharp slowdown in India‘s economic growth, no downturn is seen in the mobile market, which [...]

GLOBAL – Text Art is an exclusive new mobile app for the Nokia E71. It has just become freely available for download, enabling you to type messages that automatically get generated into mind-bending art that you can share via MMS.Part of a Nokia’s new Beautiful Connections project for the Nokia E71, the Text Art app [...]

An art exhibition opening in the Netherlands will allow people to call a telephone number designated for God – but they will have to leave a message. Dubbed God’s Hotline, it aims to focus attention on changes to the ways Dutch people perceive religion. Dutch artist Johan van der Dong chose a mobile phone number [...]