The New Year SMS tradition on the line of extinction

In France, all operators except Free SMS announced declines  in numbers of messages sent by their subscribers.
For Orange, the number of SMS sent between 21 hours and 2 am (Jan. 1) decreased by 14% compared to the previous year. For Bouygues, the decline was even 20% while at SFR, subscribers have sent 10% less SMS to wish a happy new year.

Free one, which acquired many new subscribers may rejoice to see that number of SMS sent up. But in the whole, more and more people prefer to use MMS with video or pictures or messages via chat applications such as Messenger, WhatsApp and others. As in France, Chinese operators have also noticed a decrease (35%) of the number of SMS sent.

It seems that the time of bundled SMS sent on the day of the new year is over. If you are looking for your wishes, look in your inbox Facebook or WhatsApp.

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Year of the Tablet PC

As many of you are witnessing at CES 2010 this is shaping up to be the year of the Tablet, and frankly given all the energy Ive focused on Tablets these last years I can only say....YOOOHOOOOOO! It is so exciting to see devices like the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 (more about that later) and the HP Slate Ballmer heldup at the keynote and more. The reality is that Apple has accelerated the rate of which Tablet PC, and as a form-factor the Slate PC, will be accepted by the masses. After years of people like Neil Roodyn, Otto Berkes and Bert Keely, and many bloggers touting the Tabet PC then this is a happy moment.

Where have I been? Where do I start/end?!? Not as important as what is going on now! Ill be back with some posts this year as this year is shaping up to be special! :-)

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