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Featured Articles » Sony Launching Music Unlimited App for iOS Devices this Week » iPhone Accounts for Majority of U.S. Smartphone Unit Sales » Apple to Announce Larger iPhone   Sponsored By: Mobility Tech Conference & Expo The Mobility Tech Conference & Expo explores how today's powerful mobile Internet ecosystem expands the range of services and applications being delivered to businesses and consumers. The conference focuses on how carriers, service providers, equipment manufacturers, vendors, and others, will meet unprecedented demand for mobile broadband services. Like wireline, mobile Internet devices are going to connect wirelessly using any network available. The key to profitability is to balance 4G/LTE and Wi-Fi growth with existing alternatives. Come spend three incredibly productive days with peers exploring the "bring your own device" consumer world and its ever-increasing population of mobile broadband users.   Top Stories » iPhone-operated 'gTar' Gets a Kick-Start » DeLorme inReach, a Two-Way Satellite Communication Device Works With iPhone, iPad and iPod » AltiGen Appoints Express Online as Distribution Partner in Australia, New Zealand   From The Expert Corner May 24, 2012 Mogreet MMS Report Says iPhone Users Send the Most Multimedia Messages By Rory Lidstone TMCnet Contributing Writer According to a semi-annual 2012 Mobile Marketing Analytics Report released by multimedia-based mobile marketing provider, Mogreet, the Apple (News - Alert) iPhone continues to lead the market in mobile video messaging use, increasing from 7.4 percent to 23.6 percent since August of 2011. However, the report also found that Samsung (News - Alert) devices are gaining ground in this area, increasing from 2.9 percent to 21.9 percent over the same time period. This is hardly a surprise given that Samsung's phones in general make up a massive portion of the mobile market, while the iPhone (News - Alert) also continues to do well, selling by the millions worldwide. The report also found that over two-thirds of all multimedia messages, delivered by businesses to consumers in the United States, are sent via the Mogreet platform. Mogreet believes that this saturation in the mobile market provides it with deeper insights into what messaging consumers view on their phones. Additional statistics found in the report include the percentage of mobile multimedia messaging (MMS) delivered by U.S. mobile carrier with Verizon Wireless (News - Alert) at 45.4 percent, AT&T at 42.9 percent, Sprint at 8.2 percent, Cricket (Leap Wireless) at 2.4 percent and T-Mobile at 0.7 percent... Read More   From The Blogs Turns out Cisco Cius Can't Compete With the iPad Either May 25, 2012 By: Rich Tehrani   Company after company is learning what most of instinctively know already – competing with Apple head-on is like trying to tackle a freight train with your bare hands as it is barreling down the tracks in your direction. Amazon with its Kindle Fire competed on price and used its services to subsidize the device. Other tablet makers are finding it virtually impossible to compete without such advantages... Read More    Featured Videos Here's The Thing: 5 Hottest Ingredients for High-Tech Grilling    Featured Resources » Rating Services in the Cloud - A Cloud Rating Strategy for "Greenfield" Mobile Operators and MVNO's » Going Mobile: Mobile Customer Service Moves to the Forefront of Multi-Channel Interaction » Mobile And Social Technologies Come Late To Wealth Management   Featured Channels » Mobile Banking » Mobile Unified Communications » Mobile Device Management   iPhone.tmcnet.com is Your Source for the Latest iPhone News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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