Mobile e-mail heading for the masses
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Carriers and other service providers are poised to give consumers cheap, easy access to personal e-mail on their regular phones.
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Group seeks to make Web access for mobile device users as easy as it is for desktop users.
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An analyst rants Opinion Let me begin with a warning that am about to get on one of my hobby horses. This one has to do with the notion that modern wireless and mobile technology is largely about enabling people to become more mobile in the way they live and work, as if they were previously chained to one location and magically liberated by the latest gadgetry and connectivity. The notion seems to be that having access to email and other applications while mobile means that people are getting out and about more.â¦
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The sign-off of an e-mail message can be a land mine involving the subtleties of relationships and hierarchies.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo! combo might become a bigger player in the mobile world than either would alone.
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Open-source mobile e-mail provider Funambol is working with advertising company Amobee to give network operators a way to offer free e-mail services to users.The new mobile offering, which Funambol plans to announce on Tuesday and demonstrate in Barcelona next week at the Mobile World Congress, will display banner ads served up by Amobee on every page of the e-mail software. The banners take up about two lines of a mobile phone screen, leaving plenty of space for users to read their e-mails, said Hal Steger, vice president of marketing for Funambol.Funambol must sell the idea to operators, which would then self-brand the e-mail service and offer it to end-users. Steger envisions that operators will let customers access the e-mail service for free, without requiring them to subscribe to a monthly data plan, because the operators will earn revenue from the advertisements.But Funambol would have to convince operators that they&#8217;ll make as much or more in advertising than in their monthly data subscriptions before they&#39;ll want to offer mobile e-mail for free. &#8220;Unless there was considerable potential revenue, which I think is doubtful but who knows... operators won&#8217;t want to cannibalize their subscription model,&#8221; said Greg Sterling, an analyst following mobile search and advertising as part of a joint venture between Sterling Market Research and Opus ResearchIn the future, however, operators may feel forced to begin offering ad-supported data services, he said. For example, if a winner of the 700MHz licenses currently on auction by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission deploys a network and offers free ad-supported services, other operators may begin to follow suit, he said.Funambol already offers its open-source push e-mail software to operators. The service supports the open SyncML standard so it&#8217;s compatible with Java and Windows Mobile phones, which Funambol estimates make up about half of all phones on the market.So far, no operator offers Funambol&#8217;s open-source e-mail, but two are offering Funambol&#8217;s backup service for calendar and address book information. Those operators include one in South Africa, which Steger wasn&#8217;t allowed to name, and Comcel in Columbia. Both plan to begin offering the open-source e-mail service, he said.Operators in less-developed regions like South America might be more likely to offer the ad-supported e-mail service. That&#39;s because in those regions, end-users are quite price-sensitive -- so operators have a harder time selling them data subscriptions, Steger said.
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Are be bovvered? No, we're not The volume of spam arriving in Americans' personal and workplace inboxes is rising, but email users are less bothered by it than they once were.â¦
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RIM&#39;s new BlackBerry 7100t phone represents a radical departure from the company&#39;s text-centric roots. Research in Motion&#39;s BlackBerry e-mail devices have gathered a loyal (if relatively small) following, and
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Designed for corporate users, the E51 is a "candy bar"-shaped handheld whose popularity will depend on growth of mobile e-mail market.
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New subscription service links Web mail with the desktop e-mail client.
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Although it grew up on desktop PCÂs, instant-messaging software has gone mobile Â and it looks more and more as if it has outgrown its roots in teenage chatter.
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Users will be able to receive news alerts and information via IM.
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