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Survey: Mobile Data Services Still Too Expensivenew

Citing cost concerns, three-quarters of U.S. wireless phone users failed to sign up for mobile data services other than text-messaging during the third quarter of this year, according to a survey of teens and adults by technology research firm IDC. Text messaging, meanwhile, continues to see rapid growth. Nearly half of those surveyed sent or received at least one SMS message in the third quarter, while SMS subscription plans have crossed the 50% mark.

Media Post | 12-12-2006 12:43 pm | Industry News

Tags: Electronic Publishing

White Castle Singing Contest Promoted in Nashville Scenenew

Call it Tennessee Idol -- contestants this week will compete at Nashville's newest White Castle hamburger restaurant for a 12-hour recording session at the city's East Iris Studios. The event, billed "Slyder Superstar," is being cross-promoted on cable TV and radio, and in print ads and podcasts in Nashville's alt-weekly, according to a company release.

PR Newswire via Yahoo! News | 12-12-2006 12:15 pm | Industry News

Tags: Electronic Publishing, Retail Advertising, Nashville Scene

Newspapers Woo Investors With Looming "Transformation"new

The country's leading newspaper companies realize it is time to join their new-media competitors, not fight them, reports Rick Edmonds of Poynter Online. Representative of the coming industry "transformation" is Gannett's decision to train 362 print journalists as videographers by the end of January. Edmonds also highlights increasing collaboration between newsprint chains and Internet search giants Yahoo! and Google. Such developments are markers "that newspaper companies have moved beyond merely wringing their hands at the rise of these potent competitors and are figuring out ways to make money together with them."

Poynter Online | 12-11-2006 3:35 pm | Industry News

Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management

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