By Allen Tsai | Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:50 pm |
Despite tiny screen sizes, cell phone users spent nearly $400 million on pornographic pictures and video in 2004, an amount expected to reach more than $5 billion by 2010, a recent survey found.
"In 2010 we estimate that expenditure on mobile adult content will represent just 5 percent of total end-user spend on mobile content services," said analyst Nitesh Patel. "We expect services that are built around sports, music and media to perform better, because they appeal to a wider audience of users," he added.With advancing cell phone technology, one in every two phones sold in 2005 have bright color screens, which will rise to four out of five by 2010. In the meantime, content providers such as Playboy and rival Private Media Group have begun implementing strategies to ensure subscribers accessing its X-rated material are over 18. Anecdotal evidence shows that interest is high among consumers, with South Korea's SK Telecom reporting in late 2003 that 23% of its traffic over high-speed mobile networks accounted for adult content.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:56 pm | By
Google aims to take a percentage of every iPhone sold after completing its Motorola acquisition, raising questions over whether current patent fair use standards support fair business practices.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:41 pm | By
Samsung scored another patent victory over Apple in Germany, heightening tensions between the two companies and raising questions about Apple's future legal prospects.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:30 pm | By
Mobile payments are far from secure, as a Google Wallet security breach illustrates even major mobile companies struggle to protect privacy.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:06 pm | By
A proposed bill in Congress would strip the FCC's power to monitor spectrum auctioning, potentially opening up the airwaves to Verizon and AT&T and hobbling smaller carriers like Sprint.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:10 am | By
Apple will hold a launch event for the iPad 3 in the first week of March, as the company updates its tablet to stay ahead of rivals.
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