Archive for November, 2007
I have been hoping for a good bit of news and some updates from Blyk shortly. But I’ve heard nothing. Nada. Not a sausage. I thought that in the run up to the Christmas period we might get a few announcements.
Last week, when I was driving through London, just near Whitechapel Tube, [...]
A year ago, the Lincolnshire County Council spent 12,000 pounds setting up a project designed to reduce teenage pregnancy and the spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Teens are encouraged to text in their queries regarding contraception, virginity, STDs, and homosexuality, to receive an answer from one of the “agony aunts.”
To maintain confidentiality, callers’ numbers were [...]
I’ve spent 3 years of my life working in a retail cellphone kiosk, selling the phones and services of Cingular/AT&T, T-Mobile US, and Sprint PCS, and thought it fit well with recent conversations here at SMStextnews to do a 2-part entry on the US mobile phone market. The first part will list a few things [...]
Continue ReadingEmbarq wireless has introduced a new text-to-landline service for their wireless customers. The new service will automatically convert text messages sent to landlines into speech, with no extra fees other than standard messaging rates. The competitive advantage of Embarq’s new service is that they have built an entire dictionary of commonly used SMS acronyms and [...]
Continue ReadingGoogle Maps mashups are always fun, and there’s a new one that seems a bit like Twittervision by letting you send an SMS with your location. GeoSMS is a site that lets you send a text message to their number, along with a message of some sort, and they overlay this on a Google Map. [...]
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So read the headline last night in the London free newspaper, London Lite as pictured above.
The article reports that o2 and Nokia are apparently working together to put an RFID ‘Oyster’ chip inside a handset. You’ll then be able to pay for your travel by swiping your handset over the existing network of Oyster [...]
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the inter-connect fee
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I was trying a poem. Obviously it needs work.
The writing was on the wall for Twitter for some time. People used to ask me questions like, “BUT how can they do this?” and I replied with the only answer: They’ve bought [...]
I had a note in from iTAGG (as an account holder there) to let me know about some new anonymous premium SMS rules from the UK regulator, PhonepayPlus. They go into effect on Friday January 11th 2008.
The iTAGG team are always very hot on making sure their services and service providers adhere [...]
Good morning everyone!
This week’s Flower Fairy delivery is on it’s way to Nicola Harris of 02 who was nominated with these kind words
“Nicola Harris has done sterling work to get the Good Mobile Messaging solution positioned for Sale from O2. O2 are now selling Good Mobile Messaging alongside Blackberry and we have already won over [...]
This is a coup for the team at mobile messaging company, Mediaburst.
They’ve already been working with Kelloggs, but today they’ve announced that they’ve extended their relationship — to the point that they’ll be running text-to-win services across Kellogg’s Kids & Gatekeeper brands plus Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes on 26 million in-store promotional packs.
26 million [...]
Ah, Plaxo. They’ve more or less rehabilitated themselves from that really annoying address book spammer company, to providers of efficient, useful personal data services.
Now, you can sync your contacts and calendar back and forth between your Windows Mobile phone and Plaxo. Synchronize cradled to your computer or over-the-air — the choice is yours.
Plaxo [...]
Well, those ghastly little shoplifters, the Croatians, have done us in quite soundly. Having beaten us by one little goal they’ve deprived England of a place in Euro2008, effectively cancelling the bi-yearly festival of football & alcohol-abuse that graces this green & pleasant land. We’ll have to wait for the World Cup in 2010 until [...]
Continue ReadingWhat a welcome change it was flying into Israel and being surrounded by people using mobile communications properly. Yes, there were a few really old Motorolas or Nokias on display, however the vast majority of the population I saw in and around Tel Aviv were sporting top of the range Sony Ericssons, Nokias and [...]
Continue ReadingBlogging the Israel trip
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Employee sacked for texting in sick | The Register
The firing of an employee who used text messages to call in sick after his brother’s death was unfair, an Edinburgh employment tribunal has ruled. An employment law specialist said the case sends a warning to bosses to enforce policies consistently.
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72% of UK consumers say they have no intention of ever purchasing the iPhone, with the vast majority of Britons saying the device looks good, but is far too expensive, according to a survey by market research firm GfK NOP.
I’ve been wavering on the iPhone in the UK. Really wavering. I wonder [...]
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AOL’s state of health has come into question several times over the past few months, but as it turns out, the company’s apparently strong enough to take action overseas, and has established a mobile portal in the UK.
Apparently.
It apparently has launched. Only… well… I visited AOL.co.uk this morning and couldn’t [...]
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Sony is denying claims that a senior executive said a PlayStation branded mobile phone is a likely development, claiming his comments were “misquoted” by the Indian Economic Times (ET). Sony Computer Entertainment co-chief operating officer, Jim Ryan, was quoted by the ET as saying: “The PlayStation is a proven success and so is Sony [...]
Link: NEW Banks Charges Protest Song: Let’s get ‘I fought the Lloyds’ to number 1!…
Everyone who’s reclaimed bank charges, wants to reclaim, or supports the cause can help get it to the top of the agenda, by getting it to the top of the charts. Simply spend 50p via text to buy Oystar’s non-profit ‘I [...]
It’s well worth following Justin’s series if you’re interested in social networking (from a mobile context).
Link: The anatomy of social networks at Justin Davies
A few months ago, I stopped freelancing (gotta pay the mortgage!) and spent all of my time on Ninetyten (the company I setup). The company recently [...]
A good friend of mine has just got engaged. Congratulations to him and his good lady.
However the manner in which he announced the engagement to his family was worthy of note. He’s got a beta of ROK Talk and used it to call some of his family members, get them on a [...]
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