Archive for September, 2007
Link: Report: South Korean Telcos Rake In $1.5 Billion SMS Earnings In Three Years | September 30, 2007 | AHN
Three major mobile phone companies in South Korea have earned a combined $1.5 billion from their short messaging service from 2004 to 2006, the local media said.
The report indicated SK Telecom Co. as the top SMS [...]
Sit back in your office (or arm) chairs and take a read of this week’s column by our Friday regular Ben Harvey.
Ben attempts to explain why the room full of analysts, mobile industry executives and journalists at the Blyk launch this week weren’t quite all so sure about ‘free’ — especially when they [...]
Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple iPhone warning proves true
Plenty of chatter around the Internet this lunchtime that the new version of Apple’s iPhone software is merrily bricking handsets that’ve been modified to work on networks other than AT&T.
If you’ve got an unlocked handset, my tip is *NOT* to upgrade the software until things [...]
Link: Deutsche Telekom buys Orange Netherlands for €1.3 billion - International Herald Tribune
As reported here a couple of weeks ago, T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom have concluded a deal to buy the Dutch operations and network of Orange for €1.3 billion (about $1.8 billion, or £900m).
According to reports, Deutsche Telekom expects the takeover to result [...]
Recently launched youth-focused MVNO Blyk has deployed GB’s ID3 solution for customer authentication to protect against ID theft and ensure customer data is accurate for advertiser clients.
As the first ad-funded mobile network in Europe, Blyk has paid extensive attention to its customer authentication process to ensure best user experience and quality of its member data [...]
So here I am in Italy surrounded by rolling Tuscan fields and a slow but functional wifi connection at the hotel.
I’m here for a few reasons — most notably, from a mobile industry perspective, to test out 3 Like Home, the 3UK roaming service and MAXroam.
3 Like Home is a genius service for any [...]
Link: Consumer Data Bolt On - Tariffs - Mobiles & Tariffs - O2
SMS Text News reader Barry got in touch just now to highlight O2’s rather stupid ‘unlimited’ data offering. They’re trying to hard to match similar options from T-Mobile and Three, but manage to completely screw it up by throwing in loads of conditions [...]
Saw this in yesterday’s popbitch newsletter:
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Carole Thatcher, spotted on the Plymouth-London train
last Sunday, “with a cardboard coffee cup which she
kept topping up with red wine from a bottle in her
bag. Her ringtone was the Big Ben ‘bongs’”.
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It’s always interesting seeing what ringtones people select for their handsets. What’s your ringtone at the moment?
Me? [...]
LHM Media, which specialises in mobile entertainment and marketing, is celebrating its second birthday in style after scoring a major contract with Everton Football Club that will see them develop a mobile portal for fans to view goals, images, music and latest news.
Supported by Business Link West Midlands, this breakthrough is [...]
They never quite went live with the Disney UK MVNO — which is perhaps just as well. They’ve reportedly ‘had problems getting the phone into large retailers’. Surprising, given the huge strength of the brand name.
Link: Newsvine - Disney Ends Cell Phone Service for Kids
The Walt Disney Co. will pull the plug [...]
Orange has signed an agreement with Xiam Technologies, for the provision of its My Personal Offers System (MPOS) which will give customers real-time recommendations across the Orange World Portal. MPOS will help Orange World customers to discover personalised content that is relevant to their own specific interests.MPOS will ensure Orange customers discover and consume a [...]
Continue ReadingFirst Hop announced today the availability of new releases of all the key products in the First Hop Wireless Broker suite. The integrated suite of First Hop products form a powerful service delivery platform for personalised content services, 3rd party content provider management, and intelligent promotions.
While new types of technologies and infrastructure, such as Mobile [...]
I’ve been meaning to write a bit about these guys before - but what with other recent high profile mobile related events it’s been a bit busy around these parts.
Anyway, let me introduce Skill-Pill Mobile Learning. The concept is quite simple - they give you two minute-long ‘pep talks’ on a selection of business topics [...]
Voice to text provider SpinVox have signed a deal with mobile and landline operator SaskTel to bring their voicemail to SMS service to Canada.
Available on both the SaskTel cellular network and SaskTel’s wireline telephone network, Voice Mail to Text service automatically converts voicemail messages to text and sends the text message to the recipient for [...]
I quite enjoy coming across these sorts of funky Blackberry advertisements. There’s Mr Bannatyne (OBE) in relaxed dress holding his Blackberry.
The text at the top of the page reads: “Phone, camera, email, games, music… My Blackberry has everything. A bit like my health clubs, actually…”
I’ve never actually been in a Bannatyne’s [...]
The chaps at MAXroam are offering an unlocked Apple iPhone to one lucky winner who purchases a MAXroam sim from their site (maxroam.com) this Thursday.
I picked up my MAXroam SIM recently from Sean O’Mahony and I’ve been dying to give it a go. I know I can use it right now here in the [...]
Following on from today’s earlier post about the £2m GMTV fine, ‘critics’ (not entirely sure who they are as yet) are apparently asking why, if the fine was so huge, that the Police were not involved. So reports Channel4’s Snowmail newsletter this evening:
The TV station GMTV has been fined £2m for running a [...]
XLR8 Mobile announces the first ever portable, widget-based, micro-site, mobile-commerce enabled storefronts, based upon their proprietary “WapItUp!” mobile commerce platform. This patent pending system is revolutionizing how media companies monetize content to mobile users. It’s a unique platform that allows any brand or website to sell mobile content “from any location, to any location”, direct [...]
Continue ReadingJust days after their ex-service provider Opera Telecom was slapped with a £250k fine by premium watchdog ICSTIS, the Government’s broadcast regulator Ofcom have handed out a £2m fine to GMTV for their part in the multi-million pound premium rate scam.
Continue ReadingVyro Games today showcased PIP — Personal Input Pod — a revolutionary biosensor that helps manage stress.
The PIP communicates wirelessly with software applications that run on Bluetooth enabled devices such as mobile phones, PCs, Macs, and game consoles. The PIP is part of a unique stress management solution. It is highly portable, and empowers individuals [...]
This just in from US mobile network AT&T. According to a recent survey, 42% of American small business owners reckon they couldn’t survive without mobile technology.
Four in 10 of small business owners surveyed said they could not survive — or it would be a major challenge to survive — without wireless technology. This trend will [...]
Myxer, the company that radically simplifies mobile content delivery, today unveiled “Mobilized by Myxer(TM)” at the DEMOfall ‘07 conference.
Mobilized by Myxer enables content owners to create and deliver mobile content with drag and drop simplicity right from their existing website. The product takes an ordeal that used to take weeks and thousands of dollars and [...]
Mobile messaging provider Sybase 365 have announced the launch of the Africa and Middle East Exchange (AMEEX) mobile messaging hub, to consolidate its position as the major provider of international SMS across Africa and the Middle East.
The new Hub allows Sybase 365 to expand further into this fast-growing region and offer international SMS services to [...]
Link: Don’t slip up when you’re texting… - Telegraph
The Telegraph has got an interesting article on the perils of texting the wrong person.
“Sorry darling. Working late, but promise to be back early tomorrow night to put the kids to bed.”
Oh yes. Dear Matthew was married with three children and living not in a penthouse apartment [...]
Link: Netsize Makes Handset Technical Specs Available Via Web API
Mobile messaging aggregator Netsize has launched a new mobile handset technical database.
The service, called mDevices, contains details of handsets, their capabilities, features and functions - and best of all can be accessed remotely in real time via a web-based API.
According to Netsize marketing director Renaud Menerat, [...]
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