The texting revolution is reshaping the social dialog. Americans already send 30 billion text messages each month. In first quarter, Verizon Wireless delivered nearly 58 billion text messages in the U.S.
AT&T reported that a record 78 million text messages were sent during this season of “American Idol.” Globally, some 7 billion text messages [...]
1 comment June 12th, 2008
Last June, I lined up with about 500 other aficionados at San Francisco’s main Apple Store and picked up the much-anticipated iPhone. In its 10 months on the market, Apple has raised the bar for the mobile phone and the retail world. Now history is about to repeat itself. Apple is set to launch its [...]
10 comments June 9th, 2008
Consumers are cutting the cord, and choosing to keep only their mobile phone. According to USA Today, 16% of U.S. households only have a wireless phone today. A new report by Sanford C. Bernstein found that New York land lines have dropped 55% since 2000.
Last June, The New York Times reported that while the Manhattan [...]
3 comments May 17th, 2008
In 2003, New Scientist magazine reported that one-third of Americans suffered from something it called celebrity-worship syndrome, which it abbreviated as CWS. The growing popularity of celebrity-obsessed blogs, like Perez Hilton and TMZ.com, have surely boosted CWS. In a sign of the times, TMZ staffers are now regularly interviewed by the major media, often pre-empting [...]
2 comments July 22nd, 2007