Adriana Gil Miner created a great video for her blog, Digital Ecologist, outlining today’s issues with SMS spam, privacy, and how mobile marketing law in the United States may be influenced over the next several years by the CAN SPAM Act. This follows up on Pogue’s Post about The Worst Spam Ever.
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Tags: digital media law, ie, Java, law, MMS, Mobile, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Marketing, mobile marketing law, pogue, PR, SMS, spam, t-mobile, United States
Posted in Mobile Marketing Law, SMS
Punchkick Interactive has officially been approved by
Apple to become part of the
Apple iPhone Developer Program, and we are curious as to the number of other developers who were also approved—so, we decided to start a tally.
If you have been approved by
Apple to participate in the iPhone Developer Program, then leave a comment. [...]
Tags: Apple, approval, developer, ie, iPhone, PDA, PR, punchkick, Punchkick Interactive, rejection, update
Posted in Apple, Punchkick Interactive, iPhone
While using Google Calendar this morning I noticed a new feature titled, “Google Wake Up Kit!” I clicked on it because I often have trouble waking up. Unfortunately, however, it was just an April Fools Day joke from Google.
The wake up page reads:
In combination with the kit, you can receive a new type of notification [...]
Tags: april fools day, Design, google, Mobile Marketing, PR, punchkick, SMS
Posted in Mobile Marketing, google
We are excited to announce that Mobile Ocean, a Flash Lite screensaver that we designed and developed, has been selected for the launch of Adobe’s new Flash Mobile Gallery within
Adobe.com.
Hopefully, it will be the first of many featured items for Punchkick Interactive on
Adobe.com. The Punchkick Interactive Mobile Ocean screensaver can be viewed within [...]
Tags: Adobe, Design, Flash, Flash Lite, Handango, ie, Mobile, mobile ocean, Mobile Screensavers, PR, punchkick, Punchkick Interactive, screen saver, screensaver, wallpaper
Posted in Adobe, Flash Lite, Punchkick Interactive
Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, said Tuesday that Adobe has officially started development of a Flash player suitable for use on Apple’s iPhone and hopes to finish development by June.
Narayen made the comments during a conference call with investors, explaining that Apple’s recent release of an iPhone software developers kit (SDK) has afforded his company the [...]
Tags: Adobe, Apple, developer, developer tools, Flash, flash player, ie, iPhone, Mobile, Nokia, nokia 810, opera mobile, pocket ie, PR, punchkick, sdk, shantanu narayen, skyfire, software developers kit
Posted in Adobe, Apple, Flash, Flash Lite, iPhone
Yesterday, Bill from Adobe announced that Microsoft has licensed Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE for future Windows Mobile based devices. Flash Lite 3 will be pre-installed in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser on future Windows Mobile devices. Additionally, Reader LE will be pre-installed to allow consumers to open and view PDF documents while they’re [...]
Tags: Adobe, apac, Flash, Flash Lite, Flash Lite 3, ie, internet explorer, Microsoft, Mobile, mobile devices, PR, punchkick, Samsung, Smartphone, Windows Mobile, windows mobile browser
Posted in Adobe, Flash Lite, Microsoft
AT&T is offering unlimited voice for $99 and unlimited connectivity and messaging for $35. One year contract is required for new subscribers and data plans are unchanged, though.
Analysts are expecting Sprint to, “offer flat-rate calling plans at up to 40 percent discount to it’s rivals” — bringing unlimited wireless minutes into the $60 range for [...]
Tags: AT&T, cell, cell phone, Mobile, PR, price war, punchkick, Sprint, t-mobile, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Wireless
Posted in AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is considering either a partnership or a full-on buyout of Space Data Corp—a company that provides balloon-based wireless networks. If you think that seems a little strange, consider this: the balloons can help bring wireless service to individuals in rural areas and they can be launched on the [...]
Tags: balloon, cell, Flash, google, ie, MAX, PR, Space Data, tower, WiMax, Wireless
Posted in WiMax, google
A company source within Toshiba told Reuters that Toshiba was in the final stages of planning to exit the HD DVD business and that an official decision would be made soon. Given all the hype surrounding the format war between HD and Blue Ray, I’ll bet that most people already assumed there was an official [...]
Tags: blue ray, hd dvd, ie, MAX, PR, punchkick, Sony, toshiba
Posted in Sony, toshiba
Engadget reports that they have received a flood of tips stating that Verizon to offer unlimited voice, data, and messaging packages. It is reported that starting Tuesday, February 19th the following plans should be available:
$100 – Nationwide Unlimited (voice)
$120 – Nationwide Select Unlimited (voice, SMS, MMS)
$140 – Nationwide Premium (voice, SMS, MMS, VZNav, VCAST, email)
$150 [...]
Tags: MMS, Mobile, PR, SMS, VCAST, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, VZNav, Wireless
Posted in Verizon Wireless