Mobile Engagement Resource Center

“Don’t Text and Drive.” So reads the tagline of Verizon’s latest advertising campaign aimed at preventing thoughtless drivers from putting their text messaging needs ahead of public safety. The new ad campaign will blitz television, radio, print, online, billboards and non-traditional media with words of wisdom from the first US wireless carrier to back legislation [...]

Nearly four months after deadly ethnic riots in China’s Muslim region led authorities to shut off the Internet there, local residents are still barred from sending text messages and getting online. The clampdown on telecommunication in China’s western Xinjiang province, where rioting claimed nearly 200 lives in early July, has hurt local businesses and cut [...]

WASHINGTON- Activists asked cell phone users to stop texting for one hour on Wednesday — not to save energy or focus on the road, but to call attention to one of the deadliest and most underreported conflicts in the world. What’s the Story? The so-called “Cell Out” campaign is part of Congo Week, a series [...]

Clue fans bored with Colonel Mustard with the lead pipe can now move beyond the mansion with CLUE: Secrets & Spies, an international espionage edition of the classic detective game. The mission here is not impossible and the new Clue comes with a new real-time tech twist: Hasbro says it is the first board game [...]

NEW YORK — “Hi! This is your aspirin bottle calling. I haven’t seen you in a while. Why don’t you come see me soon? I’m good for the heart, you know.” That’s the spirit, if not the wording, of the calls that will come from new pill bottle caps that connect to AT&T Inc.’s wireless [...]

The mobile industry is on a tear. The CTIA semi-annual wireless industry survey has just been released, and while numbers showing robust mobile broadband growth are no surprise, data released on consumer text messaging behavior certainly caught our attention.According to the survey, over 740 billion text messages were sent over carrier networks in the US [...]

Here’s the thing with CNN: There’s obviously something very wrong with them. They’re probably actually dangerous if you want to be completely honest about it. They need a cork on their fork at dinner it what I’m saying. But damn if they aren’t criminally inept in the most endearing way possible. Case in point, this [...]

According to Sky News, a text message was sent Friday night asking for help, from a trapped guest under the remains of the ruined Ambacan hotel. “We think there are eight people alive in there. One sent an SMS to a relative in a village, who got the text at 3pm yesterday,” said Arkamelvi Karmani, [...]