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Animals in the Wild ‘Tweet’ Via GPS Trackers

The Realtime Report

In Central Kenya, four GPS-tagged bull elephants are “tweeting” through the hashtag #ElephantsLive. GPS trackers on each elephant allow scouts to follow their location via mobile phone app. ” Tyson: In my old home I was known for my excellent fence breaking skills. Here’s how it’s done.

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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

Mobile marketing is becoming increasingly important. The cross-channel customer is also a multi-device consumer and smart phones play an increasing role in communication, networking, social media usage and entertainment. And, according to the TNS Digital Life report, mobile users spend 3.1 Mobile is part of the mix!

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10 Tips For Taking A Vacation From Social Media

SocMed Sean

Because we are becoming an “always on” society and are never more than 3 steps from our mobile devices and computers, social is invading everything we do. In fact, I kinda failed which is what prompted me to write down my tips for taking a vacation from social media, both for myself and anyone else that might benefit.

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Is your business easy to find for local and mobile searchers.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Is your business easy to find for local and mobile searchers? With mobile internet use on the rise these numbers are only going to soar. This post was mentioned on Twitter by Saying It Social, Saying It Social.

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social networking gives sponsors and clinical trial coordinators the ability to target a vast group of e-patients. An isolated patient population still will have a wide range of influences that affects the type of information they’ll likely engage with on social platforms.

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Find Twitter followers by location 2011

Laurel Papworth

Or based on the phone GPS co-ordinates that are sent with the tweet to Twitter. Doesn’t work if they are on a computer or they block GPS location on their phone. Many Twitter mobile phone clients that use the GPS location of the phone may auto-update the Twitter bio from the phone’s location based software.

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Facebook Eavesdropping Patent and Congress Questions

Laurel Papworth

Particular embodiments of the special purpose client application hosted on a mobile device of a user may be configured to continuously or periodically capture ambient audio waveform data using a microphone or sensor subsystem in the mobile device. Useful yes. Bloody ringtones in a movie theatre.