TMS Mobile News

Wireless vs. Mobile High-Speed Internet – Who has the potential for both?

High-speed internet connections are all about incredible data transfer speeds, amazing mobility and greater overall facilitation for the consumer. They are specially designed for people who prefer carrying the internet around with them rather than being restricted to a seat at home or a 6×4 cubicle in the office. Mobile internet has opened new frontiers for entrepreneurs and business strategists allowing them to work while ‘on the go’. Wireless and mobile high-speed internet are the two emerging technologies for best mobile broadband internet service. Both are remarkably identical in that they ...

More Traffic From Pinterest than Twitter

Study shows from an online sharing tool that Pinterest now drives more traffic than Twitter. It was based on an analytics from 200,000 publishers which reach 270 million unique visitors a month. It was big news back in February that Pinterest surpassed Google +, Youtube and Linkedin combined in referral traffic, but Twitter has made a name for itself as the de facto sharing network with URL shorteners abounding and real-time, concise flow of information. Still, Pinterest closed the gap within the last month going from a .85 percent share of referral ...

Mobile advertising in New Zealand on the rise

The mobile advertising spend in New Zealand is reported at about $632,000 according to Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC. The said figure was largely attributed by the increasing number of Smartphone penetration that now accounts 30% of the entire handset usage in the region. Accordingly, the mobile platform is said to open more positive opportunities in connecting with “on the go” consumers. PwC said New Zealand will follow the international trend of mobile online advertising spend as the population of Smartphone and tablet users continue to grow. The variety of platforms and ...

TMSfactory.com provides great business opportunity to hotel and retail industry

www.tmsfactory.com is a self-service mobile marketing platform that offers hotels and retailers a variety of templates to launch their own interactive campaigns fast and easy. The platform helps hotel and retail advertisers to create their own mobile sites, launch SMS campaigns, come up with mobile coupons and vouchers for customer loyalty and redemption programs, or may integrate a TMS code to their online and traditional media campaigns for multichannel promotion. On top of these unique features that TMSfactory.com can best offer to hotel and retail advertisers, metrics tool is also available ...

“Right to be Forgotten” on Facebook and Google by European Lawmakers

From what i have read on mashable, internet users from Europe are getting control over information posted online, thanks to the reforms lawmakers proposed to protect digital privacy. The proposed law, a “right to be forgotten” and a “right to data portability” requires Internet companies such as Facebook and Google to delete all info from their servers if requested by the online users and allow to transfer data from one online server to another, a not so easy task for them. But ofcourse this “right to be forgotten” law can’t be ...

Mobile browsing in the Philippines goes up

Mobile marketing is expected to penetrate in the Philippines with Filipinos now getting matured and responsive to mobile browsing. The latest data from Yahoo Index Net 2011 revealed 57% of women and 43% of men getting accustomed into mobile browsing. The report suggested a better indication to brands and advertisers in the region to embrace seriously into mobile advertising tactic. Telecom industry and technology providers, on other hand, are seen to become active players in the Philippine advertising scene.

Grooveshark’s HTML5 mobile app banned on app stores!

Overall, the app is super simple in design, but it is functional. As you can see in an iPhone snapshot to the left, the app has three tabs — Search, Stations and Popular. The Search tab lets you look for artists, songs and albums. When you find a song you want to hear from your searches, tap the song and it will begin playing and show up in a black bar at the bottom of the screen. The Stations tab shows all kinds of pre-made radio stations, such as 80s, 90s ...

A Self-service Opportunity For Local Business to Create and Monetize Mobile Offers

TheTMSway announces today the release of an updated version of TMS Factory, the world’s one stop Mobile Marketing & Commerce shop for local business – TheTMSway.com “The goal is to help local businesses adopt into a technical-free mobile initiative where their focus will be managing and optimizing their campaigns. They provide them with ‘user-friendly’ tools to take control of all their needs in their mobile campaigns”, says Frederick Saurat, co-founder of TheTMSway. It also provides a new and easy way to access directly to a mobile offer via a ...

Gmail for Mobile Adds Multiple Accounts and Tweaks Other Features!

“Multiple account log-ins and vacation-message creation have been added to the mobile version of Gmail, Google’s email program, for Android and iOS devices. The changes were rolled out yesterday and are available today.” Desktop users of Gmail have been able to login into multiple accounts simultaneously for some time–mobile users can now do it, also. Accessing multiple accounts is as easy as tapping the new account switcher button at the bottom of mobile Gmail’s browser interface. That will display a pop-up menu that gives ...

AdMob To Stop Serving Ads To Mobile Web, Google Pushes Developers To Use AdSense

When Google bought AdMob for $750 million in 2009, the company was clearly trying to capitalize on the growing mobile ad market. Mobile advertising, both on apps and the mobile web, is a natural extension of Google’s display and search ad business. Of course, as the integration has taken place over the last year, certain AdMob features have been axed because they didn’t fit with the overall strategy or for redundancy. As Google aptly titled its blog post announcing the change; AdMob is for mobile app ...