Archive for October, 2007
Good news for the Miyowa team!
Link: SourceWire | Press Releases - KPN Selects Miyowa for its Java Mobile Instant Messaging Service
Miyowa, the European leader in mobile instant messaging, today announced that following on from KPN’s successful launch of Windows Live Messenger™ on i-mode last year, the company has now deployed the mobile Java version [...]
I’ve added Antony’s ‘Screenshot’ application to my Brilliant Mobile Things list here.
Screenshot for Series 60 / UIQ
www.anthonypranata.com
A brilliantly siple screenshot application for Nokia handsets. Screenshot is completely free — although if you do make a lot of usage of it (like I have), do drop Antony, the developer, a bit of cash. [...]
E-Series is reporting that Windows Live Messenger has made itself available for some Nokia E-Series users:
Link: Eseries » Blog Archive » Windows Live Messenger For Nokia Eseries
Windows Live Messenger has quietly showed up in the Download Folder on Eseries devices in certain regions and with certain carriers.
Here’s a screenshot (also from E-series): [...]
Fantastic! OnePoint provides surveys that are initiated and completed by text.
I’ve built quite a few text survey services in my time and I’ve found them phenomenally useful ways of extracting information from people who wouldn’t normally bother.
Stick a piece of paper and pen in front of them and ask them to complete a [...]
Yeigo is a South African based mobile phone network that uses the internet to connect users, bypassing operator call charges.
All you need is a data connection (3G or WiFi) and the Yeigo application does the rest.
Initially I thought this was a incoming dial service — i.e. you select the person you want to [...]
The long-awaited Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB handsets (or, as Nokia call them, “multimedia computers”) are now shipping worldwide.
The most noticable feature with these new handsets is the 3D multimedia menu - which Nokia claims is the first step in their plan to bring a completely new user interface to the Nseries.
“Accessing your portable [...]
Right on — nice one to Chris and the team at mobile games publisher, Pocket Gamer. They’ve done a deal to distribute a physical 36-page A5 copy of their magazine in T-Mobile stores across the UK.
Plus, they’ve also done a deal with Vodafone to distribute the magazine online in e-zine format.
T-Mobile UK [...]
Congratulations to Louis Corrigan — previously CTO at Accuris Networks — Louis joins global messaging giant, Acision, starting today. Nice one Louis!
If you’ve got a question for Louis, whack it to me by email quickly and I’ll put it to him this morning. I hope to have a Q&A with him up soon.
link: webitpr | Postal strikes help businesses appreciate the value of SMS
More UK businesses turned to text messaging as a way of communicating with their customers during the recent postal strikes.
The TM4B SMS Gateway, a London-based service provider, saw a 15 per cent increase in messages being sent with daily averages exceeding 75,000 MT SMS. [...]
It’s Friday afternoon, and therefore we once again welcome our weekly columnist, Ben Harvey.
They do this, every now and then. Someone comes out with a report, or a proposal, or a consultation on Pmpisp, which isn’t - as it sounds, the name of some short, camp Swiss composer (you can see him now, snuffling into [...]
Continue ReadingIn this post (Should GMTV executives be tried for fraud?) we asked how GMTV and Opera had managed to get away with ripping so many millions of pounds off viewers - and not be subject to a criminal investigation.
Apparently a few other people have been wondering that too. The BBC are reporting that the Serious [...]
Truphone, the UK-based mobile Internet network operator, is broadening international public Wi-Fi access for its customers and automating the Wi-Fi login process at these global locations through a new agreement with Quiconnect. This will build on and augment existing public Wi-Fi access already established by Truphone while making it far simpler [...]
Continue ReadingIt was a wicked evening. Gotta go to bed and sleep. Updates and pictures mid afternoon London Time today..
Continue ReadingIf you’d like to do some virtual networking with the attendees at tonight’s Unlimited Drinks here in Los Angeles, I’ve got an idea — and it should be right up your street as a reader.
Text me. Text me and say hi — I’ll show your message to everyone and I’ll publish it here [...]
BuddyPing, the UK-based location based mobile social network is rocking. I was talking to their founder, Justin Davies, earlier today — and he tells me they’re pulling in over 3,000 new registrations a day.
Very, very good news. I’m delighted for him and his team!
If you’re interested in mobile social networking, [...]
And how are the competing mobile operators getting on, I wonder?
No doubt the T-Mobiles, 3UKs, o2s and Vodafones are, at least, slightly concerned at the imminent launch of the iPhone coming 9th November.
I wonder how many customers o2 will be able to churn from other networks on to the iPhone? 20,000? That’s fine.
But [...]
I just put my AT&T sim card into my handset.
This is the automatic text message I received when I turned it on.
They haven’t quite got there in terms of customer relations management, have they, AT&T?
Welcome! Enjoy your new phone
You’d think they’d say ‘From AT&T’?
You’d think they’d set the originator to [...]
There are some positive outcomes from the ultra annoying postal strikes that have been winding up many of the UK population!
Link: webitpr | Education community turns to JANETtxt to overcome postal strikes
With threats of more postal strikes over the coming months, educational communities have been encouraged to find an innovative approach to effectively communicate with [...]
Have you recorded your own Singtones track? Think karaoke and cross that with a high quality ringtone and some really, really good audio manipulation to make your voice sound fantastic. That’s Singtones.
I got the news in from Singtones that they’ve got their Christmas tunes ready and waiting for the ultimate virtual stocking [...]
It’s that time of year again. Here are the categories for the mobile data awards:
- The MDA Personal Achievement Award
The MDA executive committee will select the personality that they feel has made the most outstanding contribution to the Mobile Data industry.
- Best Mobile Device (Hardware)
This award will be given to the most innovative product [...]
Heh, I picked this one up via TechDirt… you know it’s not going to go well for the thief, just by reading the headline, don’t you?
Link: Techdirt: Purse Snatcher Tries To Ransom Mobile Phone Back To Owner… For $185,000
Apparently, the ridiculousness of the request soon became apparent, as he was quickly negotiated down [...]
After the rather exciting launch, I am feeling starved of information about the UK’s ad-funded MVNO, Blyk.
I keep meaning to phone’em up and have a chat. I still haven’t managed to make the time. I’ve also been really annoying my younger brother, Fraser, demanding he get a Blyk account so I can [...]
IDC have just launched a recent report on the Indian mobile industry….
Link: Techtree.com India > News > Gadgets > Mobile Handset Users Unsatisfied
The study indicates that typically, a mobile handset is used for 56 minutes a day for voice communication — an increase of 5 minutes over the 51 minutes per day a year ago.
In [...]
Well I suppose it’s good news. o2 has been dragged, KICKING, SCREAMING, like an ultra annoyed, petulant I’m-right-you’re-wrong child, to the altar of unlimited.
David Long at ZDNet is rather unimpressed.
When O2 announced it’s tariffs for the Apple iPhone they conveniently skipped over what they meant by unlimited data by saying that “it [...]
Via the always interesting ‘Your personalised Monthly email from Orange’, I read about MobileAct (mobileact.co.uk).
The operators here in the UK are falling over themselves to ally their brands with music. If my memory serves, Vodafone, T-Mobile and o2, as well as Orange, have all got some sort of TV-show tie in related to [...]
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