Wearable Mobile Computers
Earlier this year at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from the MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group showcased a prototype of a next-generation wearable computer interface that allows people to display and interact with the Web on any surface – including...
Teen Mobile Phone Use
Access to mobile phones: 77% of teens in the USA had their own mobile phone in late 2008, 12% had no phone, and 11% borrowed someone else’s mobile phone on a regular basis, as shown in the chart below. Texting: Over the past 2 years, the average number of texts sent...Sign Up for News Text Alerts from LDS Church
You can now receive LDS Church breaking news text alerts from the Church Public Affairs Department on your mobile phone from Newsroom.lds.org. To sign up, text the word ldsnews to 29222 (United States and Puerto Rico). If you’re outside the United States, text the...
Mormon Channel iPhone Application Now Available
I am pleased to report that the free Mormon Channel iPhone application is now available. This application allows iPhone users to tune into content being broadcast on the Mormon Channel, as well as listen to audio recordings of General Conference addresses, magazine...
Mobile Only
How many households are abandoning land-line telephones and going mobile-only? According to the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly 15% of all US households were wireless-only in 2007. 25% of the households in Utah were mobile-only in 2007 (second highest...3/4 of World’s Messages Sent by Mobile
TNS Global reports that 74% of the world’s digital messages were sent through a mobile device in January 2009, up from 59% a year ago. In emerging countries, 9 out of 10 messages are sent by a mobile device. Although PC e-mail is still the most popular message method ...
Text Messaging Services
I happened today across a Web site called Tagga.com which provides free text messaging services. Tagga (82442 on the phone keypad) allows you to create text messaging campaigns so that when people text in a keyword, they will be texted back with additional...Sign Language on Mobile Phones
A group of researchers have devised a method which allows people to communicate over a 2G cell phone network using Sign Language. This is a pretty big step for deaf people, because text messaging is a poor substitute for the expressiveness of Sign Language, and for...
Kids and Teens are Way Connected
eMarketer estimates that 82% of US teens (ages 12-17) and 43.5% of children (ages 3-11) will use the Internet on a monthly basis in 2009. About 19% of active Internet users in July 2008 were under age 18. (Source: Nielsen Online) 71% of US teens have a mobile phone....
Cell Phones and Mobile Internet Access
In late 2007, Reuters reported that “worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion.” This fact has generated a lot of discussion here at the Church on its implications about how cell phones could be used to keep members and church leaders connected and...
Use of Mobile Phones: 25 Years Later
eMarketer reports that October 13th was the 25th anniversary of the first commercial cell phone call. The photo to the left is the actual phone used to make that first call. It weighed 2.5 pounds, was 10 inches long, and had a battery life of 20 minutes. Today, just...
New Meetinghouse Locator on LDS.org
LDS.org provides a simple program that let you enter an address anywhere in the world and find the nearest LDS meetinghouse (place of worship). We are pleased to announce an upgrade to this program, which can be accessed beginning today through many links on LDS.org...Parent and Teenager Technology Use
87% of parents of teenagers are online–that’s 17% more than average adults. And those parents check up on and regulate their teens’ media use, not just in terms of the Internet, but with television and video games as well. Family rules on such media...Religious Teaching Straight to Your iPod
There is an interesting article in today’s USA Today about religious podcasts. “…podcast technology is opening the doors to a wider variety of religious teaching than ever before, available on demand and delivered automatically to the computers of a...Follow on social media