Archive for June, 2007
Link: Orange and Littlewoods breach Data Protection Act, says ICO | OUT-LAW.COMÂ (Via The Register)
The UK Information Commisioner’s Office have today ruled that Orange breached the Data Protection Act’s security rules.
The case followed a complaint about the way Orange processed personal information - in particular they were allowing new staff to share usernames and passwords for the company’s [...]
Fred at A VC is very happy with his Blackberry Curve — apart from the battery. That, for me, is deal breaker. If the handset can’t even get half way through the day without a charge, it’s useless. Plain useless.
So I’m using Nokia at the moment
Anyway Fred signed off with [...]
Nokia and Vodafone have launched a new website designed to help share ideas on how to use mobile communications for social and environmental benefits. The site, www.shareideas.org, was created in direct response to NGO calls for better tools and information to help them use mobile services more effectively in their work.
Ndidi Nwuneli, Founder and CEO [...]
Link: ‘Txt Spk’ Campaign To Tackle Mobile Theft |Sky News|UK News
With rather ironic timing after Ewan’s recent mobile phone theft, the UK Government have announced a £500k advertising campaign aimed at reducing mobile phone theft.
The Home Office advertisments, targeting 16-25 year olds, are asking ’r u getting the msg?’, and stressing that stolen mobile phones will [...]
Ben Harvey returns this week clutching his big book of Sunrise Times after dancing with the druids at Stonehenge.
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So, anyway, there I was, stood in a crowd of ten thousand hippies at four in the morning, all of us assembled just to watch the sun come up. I’m sure [...]
Swap my mobile phone for a million pounds? No way! - Crave at CNET.co.uk
This might seem hard to believe, but according to research carried out by the Carphone Warehouse and the London School of Economics, one in three people aged 16 to 24 would not give up their mobile phone for a million pounds.
Well that’s [...]
Link: Apple’s New iPhone | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Apple is set to release the much-hyped iPhone Friday, June 29. Here are some of its most highly anticipated features.
Each one is perfectly pitched. They really are insightful at The Onion!
(Thanks Patrick!)
Link: 4INFO :: Mobile Search, Publishing and Advertising Leader
Congratulations to US mobile search company 4INFO, who’ve just announced a funding round of $10 million, led by Gannett Co., Inc. In case you’re not familiar with 4INFO, they provide SMS-based mobile search and alert services -including sports scores, stock quotes, weather updates, horoscopes, and more.
“We’re proud [...]
I teach a class of 11 and 12 year olds web, blogging, Google and the like every Thursday evening.
En route to the centre yesterday (it’s in a particularly dodgy part of town) I decided to be uber-organised and book a taxi for my departure later on. I even remebered the number of [...]
So, last night, I changed the SMS Text News database and login details as a precaution. They were on my phone contacts.
Smart man, yes?
Only, I forgot to update the configuration files here on the server, thus I’ve been displaying a WP error to the world for about 7 hours.
Duh.
We’re back… welcome! [...]
DEVELOPING STORY
More shortly from the reporter on the scene.
Just saw this come in on a press release, and thought we’d give them some link love!
PrepaidReviews.com, a leading provider of information on prepaid cell phone carriers, adds to their previous expansion announcements this week with the unveiling of the new Prepaid Reviews Blog. The blog, aimed equally at wireless industry followers and everyday consumers, [...]
Link: Text4Deaf Launches Text Messaging Site for the Deaf Community: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Text4Deaf.Com, a new communications-based website for the deaf community and the people with whom they interact, today announced the website officially launched. Powered by MobileSphere’s award-winning Joopz(TM) web texting technology, Text4Deaf enables real-time text messaging with a Web interface to cell [...]
It’s that time of year again.. strawberries and cream, rain stops play, and Cliff Richard. Yup, Wimbledon is nearly here - and just in the nick of time MYiOTA have launched a new mobile information service aimed at tennis fans.
The service works via an application that you download to your handset. Once you’ve installed it, [...]
Mobile music and social networking services developer Oxy Systems have just announced the European availability of phling!, their mobile music and social networking service for mobile phone users.
phling! keeps you constantly connected to your entire music collection by allowing you to stream all your music saved on your home PC or laptop to your mobile phone [...]
Link: Welcome to www.dailyrecord.com - Morris County - Study: Teens texting for sex hookups and drugs
A study into texting habits amongst teens in Morris County, New Jersey, has uncovered that a growing number of conversations involve drugs and sex - and their parents are none the wiser.
The Caron Treatment Centers study conducted by Nielsen Buzzmetrics [...]
With Glastonbury kicking off this weekend, 82ASK have launched a service to help navigate your way around the summer of music festivals.
Whether you need to know which stage a particular band is playing on, a map to the train station, advice on where to pitch your tent to avoid the rain or have any other [...]
Mobile entertainment and TV specialists ROK have certainly been busy lately - with recent collaborations in Thailand and Pakistan, and today’s announcement that they’ve teamed up with Celcom in Malaysia.
Speaking at the ceremony, Dato’ Sri Shazalli [CEO of Celcom] said, ‘We have achieved great success with our mobile content services. The move is in line [...]
Link: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Exploding (mobile) TV
YouTube will be available on the iPhone at launch. Big deal, I think: snippet TV on snippet screens; the ability to send videos around to each other and watch them on the go.
I agree that this is a big deal, however I was immediately [...]
Link: Bango Reports Fewer Refund for WAP Sites Compared to Premium SMS
Mobile billing experts Bango have just released some interesting statistics on consumer satisfaction for mobile purchases. The study shows that customers who purchase content through mobile websites are generally happier than those that do so via the traditional premium SMS route.
During the month of May, Bango [...]
Blackberries branded a threat to French national security
Saw this on IT news site The Inquirer, and thought I’d share it (and even corrected their atrocious spelling in the quote below)..
As British Government Ministers move to allow handheld gadgetry into the Commons, their French counterparts face a ban on BlackBerries for reasons of national security.
The fact [...]
This, I gather, is from a few years back. An SMS Text News reader sent it into me after reading our coverage of Omnifone’s MusicStation service.
I didn’t know they’d been around so long. Anyway, if you’re just half interested in where Omnifone have come from, it makes fascinating reading.
Link: newswireless.net .:. Comment .:. As iPhone launch nearers, rumours: Apple …
Rumours rumours everywhere.. and possibly a bit of PR spin to get the Apple share price up?
Scepticism about the launch of the Apple iPhone is growing, and it isn’t helping the Apple share price. What a coincidence that exactly as things get tougher in [...]
Good news for the team over at Obopay who will wake up on Wednesday morning with 60 million potential mobile money transfer/purchase customers, thanks to a deal with Verizon.
Link: Free Article - WSJ.com
Verizon Wireless plans to Wednesday announce a deal with mobile-payment company Obopay Inc. to allow subscribers to transfer money and make purchases via [...]
Adam Curry, the father of podcasting and producer of The Daily Source Code did a video cast or ‘vodcast’ last night from Cannes (he flew himself there the other day). Whilst he was flying, he used his E61i to capture some video of the cockpit of his plane.
Very cool indeed. I [...]
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