Media Decoder: In House Beautiful, a New Look for Digital Watermarks
Instead of using the black-and-white quick-response code, House Beautiful ads will feature an orange circle with an image of a mobile phone inside.
Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World’s Wireless Bandwidth
The gap between extreme users and the rest of the population is widening, according to Arieso, a company that advises mobile operators.
Few Options For a Lagging T-Mobile
The wireless carrier is struggling, with a dwindling subscriber base, weak finances and no obvious way out after the deal with AT&T was scuttled.
Media Decoder Blog: The Show Is Starting, Please Turn On Your Cellphones
The Tateuchi Center in Bellevue, Wash., is expected to have a policy of smartphone laissez-faire, as a bet that allowing technological engagement will draw younger audiences.
Digital Domain: Rewriting the Law on Automated Cellphone Calls
Federal law protects cellphone customers from receiving automated calls without consent, but the government and industry groups want to change what “consent” means.
Digital Domain: Sprint’s Unlimited Data Plan, and the Challenges Ahead
Will Sprint’s unlimited data plan — the only one of its kind among the major carriers — become swamped with heavy users?
Media Decoder Blog: Rhapsody Strikes Deal with MetroPCS for Bundled Music
The deal hit one snag: Warner Music, home of Green Day and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has not licensed its music for the service.
A Variety of Methods Can Be Used to Tap Into Phone Messages
The phone hacking in The News of the World case involved techniques that included taking advantage of default codes and calling cellphone companies pretending to be someone else.
Advertising: Impulse Buying on TV Enters an Even Faster Phase
Cellphones and remote controls can be used to buy products from a television set, while daily promotional Web videos are promoting immediate online sales.
Advertising: In Cellphone Wars, Movie Chain Uses a Violator’s Words
The Alamo Drafthouse movie chain kicks out anyone who talks or texts in its theaters. A young woman given the heave left a rude, yet riveting, voice mail.
AT&T’s Plan to Buy T-Mobile May Reduce Competition, Legislators Warn
The $39 billion sale would result in more consolidation “than any previous merger” in the wireless communications market, said one congressman.
It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know
A German politician was surprised to learn he was being tracked by his cellphone carrier.
