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Telecom TV’s Kirk Laughlin reports how “Twitter may be the rage now, but the next generation of social networking is going virally interactive, location-based and, of course, mobile”

Out last night and i saw the public are obviously engaging with the Phones 4U Are you Popular? campaign.

He was a nice guy and said he hadn’t known what the “No!” meant so I did my best to cheer him up with a validated profile and 20 quid to spend getting some new friends at the 3G Dating Agency.

Elena Chong, Court Correspondent for the Straits Times, reports on how pervert Wee Boon Kiat, aged 35, has pleaded guilty and recieved a $2,000 fine for using his 3G Video mobile to expose his genitalia to a randomly chosen female:

“A magistrate’s court heard that the woman received a 3G video call at about 1am that day from Wee on her mobile phone. Wee said he was waiting for her to come back. She hung up. He then used his 3G video call function and called her again. This time, the victim saw him masturbating. She made a police report. Pleading for a chance, Wee, who is married, told the court that he had made a mistake. District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan said he was sure the inventor of the 3G phone did not have what Wee did as a use. He told Wee to seek medical help.”

Whilst the inventor of the 3G phone may not have thought about this possibility, 3G Mobile Operators can do something about it. Promoting the use of fully moderated communities of validated members would be a step in the right direction.

Research from SRG’s Women and Digital Life study, involving interviews with 2,000 women in the USA, has confirmed the central role that mobile phones now play in younger women’s lives to keep them socially connected and organized.

“Greater mobile usage and smartphone ownership is allowing women to bypass the PC to upload their pictures to social media sites…. When asked “what technology had the most impact on your life in the last 2 years,” young women picked the mobile over the Internet and PC/Computer”.

Watching BBC Top Gear and i was amazed to hear Stephen Fry and Jeremy Clarkson espousing the virtues of mobile location based social networking.

Quite surprising promotion considering this was on a public broadcast commercial free TV programme and during a family TV show.

NOTE: The “Grindr” application is an 18+ NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK gay cruising community.

Get the latest Nokia in white exclusively from Phones 4U from today… Visit a store or check out the fun areyoupopular? promotional site where you can get chance to win one of these hot handsets boasting a full 3.5-inch Touchscreen, massive 32GB onboard storage, 5MP camera and slide out qwerty board.

Make yourself even more popular by clicking here and ordering it now and we’ll give you an extra £30 of credit to spend on 3G Dating…

This is a common question i get asked when out attending conferences. So i found it interesting to read at Cellular News how an US religious televangelist named Rev. Creflo A. Dollar is apparently making more than $50 million a year in revenue by sending out “devotional” or inspirational SMS text messages to his congregation.

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Following an investment of up to 20 million pounds, Ryanair is now operating probably the worlds largest inflight Mobile Networks. So it was great to fly with them last week and experience how they think they’ll get customers to start spending for premium use of their mobiles during the flight…

“She’s expecting your message”

…Mobile Operators take note. This is how you market premium mobile content!

At The 3G Dating Agency we use 3G Video Validation to ensure every member is 18+ and is genuinely advertising themselves in their profile. A day doesn’t go by when i’m asked why it’s so important that we include this time consuming and costly process to differentiate our Mobile Dating Community, so it was reassuring (in the comments to a TechCrunch article) to read how Brian Bowman, former VP Product Development at Match.com, considers the importance of profile validation:

“Basically, one of the deepest and most fundamental problems with online dating is … is the person real”