Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Is mobile a big deal? You bet it is. And to prove our point, we’ve collected 40 of the most important facts about mobile that every business person should know.Ready to check ’em out? Here goes:

Today’s mobile phone is more powerful than the PCs that sent two astronauts to the moon in 1969. Source:  http://quarterly.insigniam.com/innovation/by-the-numbers

The first commercial cellular network was launched by NTT in Japan in 1979. Source: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2009/11/celebrating-30-years-of-mobile-phones-thank-you-ntt-of-japan.html

The first multi national cellular network was the Nordic Mobile Telephony in 1981. It even supported roaming. Source:  http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/publications/review/2006_03/files/3_fifty_years.pdf ...

News executives say mobile delivery future of news...

It's a mad, mad, mobile news world and publishers better dial in quickly.

News executives opening the Associated Press Managing Editors meeting in Denver on Wednesday said mobile news delivery offers newspapers and other media companies a good opportunity to make money in the digital world.

Tom Curley, The Associated Press' president and CEO, said media companies lost revenue opportunities with the Internet but have a chance to change that with mobile....