First, campaigns can use text to immediately update supporters on issues surrounding the candidate. Where campaigns have difficulty ensuring messages are timely read when sent by email blast, sending a text ensures it is literally in the hands of supporters when you send it. Supporters can even ask the candidate questions directly, at virtual town halls that don’t tie voters to a seat in front of a computer, or even require internet access.  On Election Day, Mobile Commons is there to help ensure every supporter casts their vote for your candidate.  MORE >>

As I wrote last week , AARP was able to quickly drive in over 10,000 calls within the first few days by asking supporters on their mobile list to make a phone call. By spreading out the calls and comments, AARP has ensured that their supporters’ voices are heard both in the Oval Office and in the halls of Congress. Customer News Our ProductsWith the recent threat of cuts to benefits like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid looming, groups like AARP have been spurred to action. Not too shabby. Have you made your call yet? MORE >>

I happened upon a tweet last week while trolling my Twitter in-box that heralded a product announcement from Saba for their new " Saba Anywhere " offering designed to make training delivery to mobile workers easy, practical and secure. If you're thinking this announcement and product branding meant the same thing to you as it did to me, a little further investigation would prove you wrong too! They can even re-purpose their adopted product tag line too when that time comes (". The marketing blurb provides the following background: At first blush, this all sounds great! MORE >>

And unfortunately, CDMA does not support characters outside the default alphabet. All of these protocols support larger alphabets. All Posts Blog Mobile Resources and Research Our Products Text MessagesMobile Commons works with some of the most inspiring Hispanic organizations in the country, including Reform Immigration 4 America , Presente.org , the National Alliance for Hispanic Health , the National Hispanic Media Coalition , and many others. But if you join the Spanish-language version of any of their mobile lists, you’ll notice something surprising. Great!” MORE >>

And a large proportion of his work was in pursuit of a computing device to support learning – he is indisputably the first person to research and develop digital m-learning, and was involved with much of the design of the OLPC. Kay’s prediction for the iPad’s success is further supported by the work of another luminary in the computing world, Jef Raskin, whose work pointed to a simple, easy-to-use “information appliance&# as having the most chance of success: a computer as easy to use as a toaster.  MORE >>