Link: IOL: Now you can take your punishment even faster. Johannesburg motorists will now be informed about their traffic fines through an SMS within two to three days of committing an offence. This is an extension of the SMS traffic search system launched by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department in January. The system was introduced [...]

At Neo One, we’ve been working with the team at Dubble Fair Trade Chocolate.  Recently, Dubble encouraged their network of ‘Dubble Agent’ website members to send in questions for a fair trade farmer in Ghana via text. We did the mobile and website plumbing to make it all work seamlessly for them.  They had a [...]

Link: Sys-Con Flytxt, the leading mobile direct marketing company, today announced significant changes to its senior management structure including Flytxt Board Director, David Harper, becoming Executive Chairman of the parent company. The changes come at a crucial time in Flytxt’s company strategy as it focuses its marketing and sales efforts on its leading technology product, [...]

Link: IDEX Online In an already cluttered Indian jewelry market, Indian jewelry group Tara is venturing into the domestic market with an innovative marketing approach – jewelry retail via SMS. Rather than sell through traditional retail methods, Tara is publishing a two page newspaper flyer showing images of the jewelry with SMS codes next to [...]

Link: Portio Research. Eastern Europe is now approaching saturation and the region is forecast to grow by only 79 million further net additions in the next 6 years, while Africa represents a vast continent of almost a billion people, and barely 14% of them currently have a mobile phone. We forecast another 265 million subscriptions [...]

Aquaterra Leisure, the charity dedicated to improving the quality of life and health in local communities across the UK, has chosen Incentivated’s text message appointment reminder system ‘iris’ to reduce the number of no-shows at its sports and leisure facilities. Yet another leisure company organisation embracing the mobile medium!  This is good news. Incentivated only [...]

I had a note recently from Jiri Satanek, co-founder of Circletech to tell me about their newest service: SMS007.  You may well have read about various secure SMS services — this one looks very much as though it’s in a completely different league!   It’s been available to Czech users for about 5 months and is [...]