Mobilestead Blog

According to the Telegraph, the average age for a kid to get his or her first cell phone is eight. Eight! I was lucky enough to get my first cell-phone at the age of 16. At that time this was a shared resource where one in five had one. A brick sized phone was a status symbol. This was still the age of the beepers and pagers. According to the survey based on“1,435 people including 546 children aged seven to 15, 676 parents ... Read More

Today is a major day for Location-based Social Networking. Google has just launched Latitude, which probably should have been called Location for simplicity. Now your friends can see exactly where you are. More info on TechCrunch. Google Mobile Blog has the official announcement. This means trouble for startups in this space, as none really got significant traction. In our opinion, mobile social networking space will eventually be won by the likes of Facebook which already know all your friends and can easily turn location ... Read More