The Mobile Minute is back with the latest mobile news. What's happening today? FrontlineSMS now supports MMS via email and offers scheduling features, an infographic breaks down the overlap between social networks and mobile phones, non-profits are ramping up their use of mobile giving campaigns, and Google introduces a new computer-to-phone voice service.
- FrontlineSMS released a new version of its software, which now supports multi-media messages (MMS) The new version also has a scheduling feature called "Reminders" for managing emails and SMSs.
- "The Geosocial Universe" is a great infographic that breaks down how (and where) users access different social networks. For example, the majority of Skype's 590 million users access the program from a computer, while Twitter's 114 million users are slightly more likely to log on from a mobile device than a computer, and FourSquare's 3 million users come entirely from mobile devices.
- Mobile Marketing Watch reports that American non-profits are increasing their use of mobile giving campaigns after the success of mobile donations during the Haitian earthquake and the Gulf oil spill.
- Voice Calls, a new feature released by Google, allows Gmail users to call phones from their computers. Users can make calls to, and receive calls from, phones, and the service is free for calling U.S. and Canadian numbers.
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