Today's headlines

By Mickey Alam Khan

New research shows that the number of mobile phones shipped in the first quarter of 2008 jumped 14.8 percent from the previous year.

By Giselle Abramovich

The Mobile Marketing Association last week issued its first set of global mobile advertising guidelines in an effort to bring much-needed standardization to the mobile marketing industry.

By Giselle Abramovich

Proteus is launching Universal Channel content with three additional carriers in Latin America: Personal Argentina, Porta Ecuador and Movistar Peru.

By Giselle Abramovich

Clickatell has been chosen by healthcare organizations Cell-Life, ComplyRx and the National Health Service to provide mobile services that deliver critical medical information to mobile phones.

By Mickey Alam Khan

The Chicago Association of Direct Marketing will host its first mobile marketing panel tomorrow at the IMX08 conference for direct and interactive marketers.

By Mickey Alam Khan

It took some time but Google finally bellied up to the bar: The search giant's move to offer banners for mobile extends the life of an ad unit that refuses to die.