Grass-roots photo messaging uptake: field of dreams?(News)

RCR Wireless News, October, 2006

Byline: PHIL CARSON Whether it's goofy pet photos, front row at a rock concert or eyewitness to disaster, the spread of camera-equipped phones has enabled up-to-the-minute photos for social networks and citizen journalism of the most compelling sort. In fact, as camera-equipped mobile phones have penetrated the market and ease-of-use issues have been resolved with carrier-based or third-party applications, people are taking pictures and sending them, generating multimedia services and subscription revenue for carriers and their partners.

Call it social networking, mobile blogging or the unpronounceable "mo-blogging.'' The industry is finally entering a phase it can call "mo-cash.'' The market for sharing amusing and informative photos...

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