"It's no surprise today's increasingly mobile users are looking to their wireless devices to help stay better connected to people and information," Jim Ryan, vice president of data product management at Cingular, said in a statement. "Cingular's new offerings of Yahoo's leading services are designed to meet this lifestyle need through the delivery of innovative features that are on the cutting edge of wireless technology.". Instant messaging is becoming increasingly popular, not just as a fun feature but also as a tool for communication in companies. Microsoft says it has 135 million users of its MSN messaging service globally.

Recently, IM giants America Online, MSN and Yahoo decided to allow limited interconnection among their products after years of cold war, Other perks for the wireless services include strongfit designers marble and mandalas by rossy villarreal case for apple iphone 7 plus - blue e-mail and, for Cingular users, mapping services and games, While Verizon is partnering with Microsoft's MSN, Cingular is teaming with Yahoo, MSN Mobile, Microsoft's service for sending e-mail and instant messages remotely, is available for phones enabled with Verizon's "Get It Now" service, The offering essentially lets customers use mobile versions of MSN Hotmail and MSN Messenger to send messages from one phone to another, or between a phone and a PC, Customers can download MSN Mobile software from their phones, Verizon said..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. About two-thirds of North American homes will be connected by mobile phones by then, Forrester predicts. Additionally, the study said that, in the past year, 4.3 million North American households started using broadband services to access the Internet, taking the total number of broadband users to 23.1 million. Forrester estimates that number will triple over the next five years, a prediction similar to a recent forecast by the Yankee Group.

Though cable companies still account for over 60 percent of broadband connections, the growth of these services will slow, Forrester said, Between 2001 and 2003, DSL's market share grew by 5.7 percent, whereas cable broadband's share fell by 6.5 percent, according to the research company, The survey also attempts to throw light on Internet users' habits, E-mail continues to be predominant online activity for most, Forrester said, Broadband users are more likely to download music and video, visit comparison-shopping sites and use photo-sharing sites, The average broadband user is also much strongfit designers marble and mandalas by rossy villarreal case for apple iphone 7 plus - blue more likely to have made an online purchase of $80 or more in the past three months, the company said..

Compared with their dial-up counterparts, broadband consumers earn 27 percent more, spend 52 percent more time online and are more optimistic about technology, Forrester said. The United States will be looking a bit like South Korea before the decade is up, Forrester says. This spurt is expected to boost sales of consumer electronics and access devices such as digital video recorders (DVRs) and camera phones, Forrester said. The data was garnered from a survey of 60,000 households. DVRs are poised for a tenfold growth by 2009, Forrester says. Meanwhile, camera phone usage should spread from 2.7 million households in 2003 to 58 million households in 2009.