Archive for March, 2006
Link: ShoZu.
ShoZu is the simplest, quickest and smartest way to share photos, videos and text using your mobile phone… anytime, anywhere
I’ve been hearing a lot of gossip about ShoZu in the past weeks. I was sure I’d tried it — but it turns out I was thinking of some unrelated web2.0 thing in Australia. Time [...]
Continue ReadingLink: 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 to [...]
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, Flytxt [...]
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 them. [...]
Link: Free WiFi-enabled phoning/texting service reports growth.
Move over Skype, there’s a new kid on the block offering free phone and text-messaging services for WiFi-enabled mobile devices. Barablu reports that its "free calls community" has spread to 96 countries since its launch at the FT World Telecommunications Conference in December of last year.
Continue ReadingLink: Portio Research - Worldwide Directory of Mobile Network Operators.
# Africa: 140 networks # Asia Pacific: 172 networks # Eastern Europe: 83 networks # Western Europe: 131 networks # Latin America: 138 networks # Middle East: 46 networks # North America: 30 networks
Link: the chrisjur blog: My New Motorola SLVR L7 - Updated.
The SLVR worked out-of-the-box with iTunes and Mac OS X’s iSync software (I was able to load my phone book via Bluetooth in less than a minute).
So Chris didn’t have a problem at all…. typical! I’ll restart and reboot everything…
Continue ReadingLink: 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 across [...]
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 recently scored LivingWell as a [...]
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 [...]
Continue ReadingI left the Motorola SLVR L7 in the bag for over 24 hours. Being a slight technical geek I do enjoy ripping the boxes open and playing with shiny new technology. However I had lots to do last night so I didn’t get the opportunity.
I was positively salivating at the prospect of unpacking the L7 [...]
I had a note from Bob Roth at 4INFO highlighting another range of service updates. The sexy new functionality is the ‘reply 1′ option which automaticall sets up a text alert for the information you just requested.
1. The "Reply 1 to Set Alert" FeatureThis functionality eliminates the need to repeatedly type out andrequest information [...]
Link: Business 2.0: Google patents free Wi-Fi - Mar. 28, 2006.
More evidence has emerged that Google is getting ready to blanket the U.S. with free Wi-Fi, as Business 2.0 senior writer Om Malik reported last year. Now, the company has filed for three patents related to offering wireless Internet access.
Just where does the mobile industry [...]
Continue ReadingLink: MOVO Mobile and Captive Interactive Partner for Spring Break 2006.
MOVO Mobile, a leading mobile marketing software company, and mobile marketing specialist Captive Interactive, today announced a new partnership focused on providing integrated mobile marketing solutions to marketers of consumer brands, event marketing and promotion agencies.
MOVO’s hosted mobile application combined with Captive Interactive’s industry [...]
You may notice that I left off my ‘3′ phone from the list of interchangable mobiles. It has been sat gathering dust and synchronising whenever I hit the ’sync’ button on the Apple here. I am still absolutely livid that I can only access 3 approved ‘great’ websites.
I was walking past the 3 store today [...]
I went out to the o2 store at Lakeside Shopping Centre today and got a £49.95 NEC i-mode handset. I thought, since no one’s sent me one (unlike Alfie over at Moblog UK who seems to be drowning in them), I should get one and have a play about with it. Either the handset is [...]
Continue ReadingLink: EU leaders back roaming charge cuts | The Register.
The European Commission (EC) is to get tough with mobile operators over the high cost of roaming charges. Tomorrow, Viviane Reding, Information Society and Media Commissioner, is expected to publish her plans to cut roaming charges and give consumers a better deal.
I’ll be surprised and delighted [...]
Continue ReadingIf I read Justin’s latest email correctly, they’ve now given Mobileglu users the ability to send pictures *to* Flickr as well as view them. Very cool indeed. I’ve just re-enabled my flickr account and I’m going to try this out shortly.
I wonder if Justin and the team there couldn’t do something with Doug Richard’s new [...]
I’ve been getting hundreds of comments from viewers of the NBC game show, Deal Or No Deal, looking to send comments to the show. I wrote a post about it a few days ago from an SMS text viewpoint.
For everyone visiting: the site you want is here - www.nbc.com/DOND
Link: Arutz Sheva - Israel National News.
Kadima party activists started pushing voters to go to the polls Tuesday afternoon by sending out hundreds of SMS messages to cell phones.
Not just pounding the streets, these party officials are using SMS. You know I talked to both the Conservative and Labour political parties about this for the [...]
Continue ReadingLink: Creamer Media’s Engineering News Online, South African Industry News :: Breaking News.
Mobile ticketing and mobile coupon solutions company Mobicode has announced that it will be launching its flagship service into the South African market, which will enablecompanies to deliver bar-coded tickets, coupons and vouchers to mobile phones throughSMS.
If I had a penny for every [...]
Continue ReadingI was out last night with a friend. I spied his new phone. He’s using 3. Poor guy. We both lamented the fact that they don’t actually offer proper internet access.
Then, with no small embarrassment, he showed me the permanent banner ad on the bottom of the phone’s main screen.
I looked on incredulously. It’s [...]
Link: IndiaDaily - Actress angry over nude MMS!.
Few days before the release of actress Mona Chopra’s film ”Naughty Boy”, it seems that someone has played really naughty with her and which is in a "bad taste", as the actress puts it. An MMS clip showing Mona undressing herself has been circulated all over.
I’ve been reading [...]
Continue ReadingLink: Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Home.
Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen decided on Monday to back down from legal action against the late-edition tabloid Ilta-Sanomat for violation of privacy.
On Saturday, the paper reported extensively on SMS messages Vanhanen sent to a woman. The Prime Minister was especially annoyed that Ilta-Sanomat quoted the content of [...]
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