Cell Phone Users Embrace Ego-Texting

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Carlyle Solutions today announces the launch of an innovative new information service for US cellular phone users.

Starting today, cellular phone users on the Alltel, AT&T, Boost, Cellular One, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and Virgin Mobile networks can ask any question by texting it to 34646 (DINGO).

Any question imaginable can be asked, written in English, and within minutes DINGO will return a concise answer in a single text message.

DINGO’s greatest selling point is its introduction of “ego-texting”, where intricate details about a person can be revealed with stunning accuracy.

The service boasts the capacity to give detailed and accurate answers through employing subject matter experts to research every question.

During trials of the DINGO service, various questions have been asked regarding relationships, sports trivia, travel directions, language translations and weather forecasts.

Gordon Philp, CEO Carlyle Solutions, comments: “DINGO offers a valuable service that provides people with answers to questions anywhere, and at any time. All you have to do is send your question to 34646 (DINGO) and he will return an answer within minutes”.

Asked why the service is called “DINGO”, Philp responded, “We like this name because the dingo is an Australia wild dog known to the aborigines as a brave and wise companion. We want to bring that spirit of friendship and loyalty to everyone in the United States."

DINGO is the first 100% human researched mobile answering service to be launched in the United States based on premium text, providing a simple billing mechanism that’s visible and easy to use for consumers, and, unlike competitors, doesn't require pre-subscription.

About SMS Messaging

SMS messaging or the short message service messaging is a very popular mobile interaction method these days.

Due to its low cost nature this service is highly popular among the teenagers these days.

First you have to know some important facts and trivia about the SMS messaging service. Basically the idea of SMS messaging was come in the early 1980s. But this service was come to an effect in 1985 for and to GSM mobile handsets only. After that it became available for each and every telecom technology like CDMA, AMPS, Satellite phones and even Landlines too. Surprisingly, some online messengers are also providing the messenger to mobile and mobile to messenger SMS facilities. Basically SMS is a short message of at most 160 characters, which can be written by using mobile keypads in general. It can be sent from a mobile to another mobile. To overcome the limitation of the 160 character limit the Long message service is also there. Long Message service is nothing but the collection of some SMSs. Basically a Long Message of more than 160 character uses to divide itself in some 160 character SMS. Then each and every 160-character phrase sent one by one to the receiver’s mobile phone. Generally all the digital mobile phones do have the feature ofshort message service option.

Due to the improvement of SMS some monophonic ring tones can also be sent through SMS using some special format. Later the scope of SMS was increased and the technology enables the man to send likes of pictures and video clips using GPRS system from one mobile set to another. But this service is named Multimedia Messaging Service or simply the MMS. But now it is possible to do something like MMS through SMS. The SMS can be sent in special text formatting in likes of bold and italics. Also some icons, animations, sound effects, pictures, and special ring tones can be sent through SMS these days. This type of Short Messaging Service is known as Enhanced Messaging Service or simply the EMS. According to the researchers this EMS service is the intermediate stage between the SMS system and the MMS system. But this EMS system seems to grab some rapid popularity!

Now, the following statistics about the Short Message Service seems to be really interesting. In 1995, the initial stages of SMS, each and every customer used to send a SMS once in every two and half month. Again, in early 2000s each and every customer was sending some 30 to 40 SMS in every month. Again some 9 Million SMS were sent among the mobile users in the very first day of 2007 that’s too only in UK!

Short Message Service is too much successful due its low cost nature. Again you need not to reply at that instant when you receive the SMS. These are the some of the facts that makes the SMS really popular.

Some literature minded people do believe that the short nature of words will kill the art of literature some day. But to people, interaction is more important than the literature. So here is the high possibility the progress of the SMS system will continue.

Birthday Cards Go Mobile

If you didn't know it, you can send a birthday card or other greeting card through your cell phone. In fact, this is one of the largest markets for greeting card makers. It has long been told that anything that could be done on a computer would be and that goes for sending friends and family well wishes.

The industry itself is part of the ever growing demand to stay connected. Over recent years, the mobile phone industry has gained considerable amounts of technology. Cameras, games and just the fact that you can browse the web from your phone have become the foundation for the business of cell phones. Most people want to stay connected and they want anything that they can do online to be available right on their cell phones. Mobile greeting cards are just one of those things!

So, consider this. If you know that your friend's birthday is next month and you just can't afford to miss it, you can program that into your cell phone and get a reminder message. Not only that, but you can even get a birthday card off to her through the use of your mobile service. A few clicks of the button and she's happy. It's well known that mobile phones can do just about anything these days!

Of course, this doesn't just go for birthday cards. Why not get the Christmas card list going and send them through the phone? E cards, as they are called, are slowly becoming the way of life in many areas. It takes seconds to get them together. No stamps, no envelopes and so much less time are all factors that have encouraged greeting cards on mobile phones and the web to do so well. Services can even be set up to remind you that it is your friend's birthday so you can be the first person to wish them a good day! Mobile greetings will continue to increase in demand because of the ease of use, the inexpensive costs, and the ever advancing technology that is offered.

Future Of Mobile Phones

So your cell phone can take and send pictures, even video. You can text message and download ring tones and games. You can even watch television and do some web browsing with UMTS. But if you're person who's been using mobile phones for a number of years, you can appreciate just how far they have come since the early days when we carried around bricks in dubiously bright neoprene covers, and simply trying to get a phone and service required the kind of stringent credit checks associated with entry to the bank of England.

The cell phones of the future may not look radically different, but they will enable users to do a lot more and a lot differently. High speed data access using mobile broadband, high quality video playback and over the air downloads, high quality video cameras, or live and time shift broadcast Tv and radio, and a posse of location position finding applications, besides ever growing memory and storage capacity, are just some of the functionalities on the horizon.

The biggest and most obvious change is the rapid take up of mobile phones. Twelve years ago, the were only for the whealthy. Seven years ago they were still very rare. Now there more mobiles phones than households in Europe, and numbers are still growing fast.

Today there's no real difference between your mobile phone and your PDA. Motorola has introduced a phone, the much heralder Rokr, that runs Apples ITunes while Sony Ericsson already has mp3 phones on the market which can hold up to 1500 songs. Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, will be introducing music playing handsets which are able to store thousands of tracks which play in stereo. Some sets even include FM radio.

Now with the latest wifi systems there is also the possibility to connect to your home or office wifi security webcam so you can constantly secure the premises.

The next generation of cell phones seems all set to be a combination of phones, PDAs, global positioning systems, digital cameras and handheld gaming devices. However, the next generation of mobile phones will be just one facet of the technologies that are likely to come together. Servers must run the host software in the case of interactive entertainment software and networks that connect the phones with these servers are also needed.

Future efforts to optimize power supply systems for mobile devices will increasingly involve the use of multiple power generation technologies with an electric buffer store. In order to achieve maximum power utilization with the highest degree of efficiency, a system of intelligent power management is needed. The goal is to link the energy deliver by batteries, solar cells, thermoelectric or fuel cells in a device. With this kind of system, a laptop could switch to fuel cells whenever light conditions were favourable.

The local phone company's last line of defense is Internet access. Will local phone services still be required to connect to a DSL or dial up Internet connection? Today you can hook up your laptop or desktop computer through your cell phone and UMTS connection giving you nearly the same ADSL speed as your local isp so who needs a land line?

A Brief Examination Of Mobile Telephony

The novel technology of mobile telephony has over the last years become the focus point of numerous discussions, both in academia and business environments, due to its tremendously social penetrating abilities. Making the conveyance from telephone's cultural heritage to that of the mobile's augmented reality has generated as much support from various critics, as it has discontent. But the fact still remains that for the privileged developed half of the world, mobiles have become to be viewed as a trendy necessity as well as a social networking tool.

An electronic telecommunications device, the mobile phone or cellular phone, commonly referred to as the "cell," has become one of those personal property items that can fit the criteria of being both a gadget and a tool. Offering its communicating services since the early to mid 1980s, the considerably larger version of the mobile phone was permanently installed in vehicles as car phones. As technological innovations made miniaturization possible, the majority now of mobile phones are easily controlled and operated single-handed. Moreover, the standard voice feature has been enhanced with additional services, like text messaging, camera capabilities, internet browsing and MMS features for sending and receiving photos and video.

Mainly due to their low establishment costs and rapid deployments, mobile phones have since their first introduction spread rapidly throughout the world, outstripping the growth of fixed telephony. From Europe and Australia, to Asia and America, mobile phones are now widely used, with the majority of adults, teenagers and even children now owning at least one model. Packed with widely diverse features, from alarms to teleconference abilities, mobile phones have set the pace to a new type of communication based culture. But the extreme overload of cell phones has not resulted in closer or more genuine communication principles. Still people, in most cultures, base their business deals and personal affiliations to face-to-face interaction, leaving mobile telephony less ground to grow as a meaningful type of communication. After all, it is not that different than having a fixed telephone line; the difference mainly being that you carry that line whenever you might be.

Yet, mobile telephony use has become ubiquitous due to the interoperability factor telecom networks have endorsed and most have allowed it to spread across continents. In fewer than twenty years, mobile phones have indeed gone from being rare and expensive devices mainly used by businesses, to low-cost, trendy and personal items, used by everyone who wishes to have the ability to reach and be reached by others. But, interestingly enough, sociologists have realized that, as any other type of social networking device, mobile users began to develop vastly different practices based on their own cultural biases.