Archive for March, 2008
Will you have a look at this, eh?
A few hours ago I wrote about Garmin’s mobile marketing campaign in tonight’s Evening Standard newspaper.
Here’s the ad as it appeared in the paper:
And here’s the reply text I got:
So, I sent in a text message — I RESPONDED to the ad via a really useful medium. [...]
Continue Reading… should I be worried? Deary me. It looks like that upgrade — all official, used the proper upgrade tool … and it looks like I might have an issue. We shall see.
Continue ReadingSaw this in the Evening Standard this afternoon. Interesting to see Garmin are eating their own medicine. Or sausages. I wonder how the mobile marketing campaign is working out for them. I’ve sent off a text message to try it out anyway. You never know, I might win.
Originally I thought [...]
A quick note to thank our main advertiser, Clickatell. As well as providing messaging services to over 8,000 companies across the planet, their support helps to keep the lights on here at SMS Text News.
If you’re looking to buy messaging services — in particular bulk SMS, do take a bit of time [...]
After a lot of digging, I managed to find the right page to work out the costs of calling abroad from your UK Vodafone.
It’s like having a flash back to 1997.
125 pence a minute to call the States from a standard Vodafone connection. More than a quid a minute!
Buy the 2.50/month international call [...]
A while ago I thought I should take another look at RebTel. They got $20m worth of investment, after all (see RedHerring funding announcement). I wondered how they were doing.
Armed with a new mobile number and, effectively, a new identity, I signed-up the other day when I needed to talk to a few [...]
I’ve been using Pingie for a while now. It’s a really, really simple RSS-to-email and RSS-to-SMS service that is just genius.
You can follow SMS Text News on multiple mediums — RSS (of course), web, Jaiku, Twitter — but if you’re in America and you’d like text updates (standard rates apply), Pingie delivers. [...]
Vijay, on behalf of mobile ad networking geniuses, AdMob, whacked me over these summary points from their February metrics report. The AdMob metrics reports are most definitely becoming essential reading for anyone wanting to track real mobile usage. It’s all very well reading those annual and semi annual research reports, but I want to [...]
Continue ReadingWell, my Nokia E90 has updated without error, thanks to the Nokia Update software.
The big arse? Only half of my data is preserved. Messages, photos, contacts.
Half of the data is screwed.
All my applications have gone.
Gahhh.
I know Nokia have ‘fixed this’ with the Nokia N82 but it’s absolutely ridiculous that they haven’t implemented [...]
Link: Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down - Engadget
The last we’d heard, the Indian government had ruled out the threat of a Blackberry ban if RIM didn’t allow it to snoop on messages, but it looks like some overzealous bureaucrat is getting his way after all: the Department [...]
Sponge Media is one of the fastest growing new media companies in the UK — officially — according to GP Bullhound’s Media Momentum awards held last week. Sponge was ranked number 39 in the top 50, a pretty wicked achievement, particularly for the mobile industry since Sponge focuses on mobile marketing.
(If, like [...]
Has anyone experienced this situation? A reader emailed me telling me that his Nokia E61 just stopped working with mobile data recently.
Completely stopped.
The phone works fine, mobile data is screwed. He can’t get anything working at all.
He phoned T-Mobile UK (oh dear) and the polite people on the end of [...]
So I backed up my phone. Then I upgraded it. That worked fine. Now I am trying to restore that backup. Let’s see how it goes…
Continue ReadingIf you’re a regular visitor to the UK or if you need mobile broadband now and again, but not enough to take out a contract, this might well be a wicked deal for you.
3UK have just announced that they’re selling their USB modems at 69.99 pounds on pay as you go. Genius. Last [...]
So that’s me finally connected. It’s been a bit of pain, mentally. There’s been a lot of ‘f*ck it’ phrases flying around the new SMS Text News office in Soho — all from me.
I use Windows you see, for blog publishing. I particularly like SnagIT from Techsmith for screenshotting which is [...]
Swedish ad-supported gaming company Didmo has revealed it’s bringing its mobile content platform to the UK, as well as the US, Germany and Spain, after notching up 220,000 downloads a month in its native Scandinavia.
The service works by allowing users to download a free full-version of a game in an ad supported shell. To get [...]
Phones look like they’re getting cleverer: one in three mobiles will be a smartphone by 2013, according to ABI Research, up from one in ten today. Nokia remains the most popular smartphone seller, with 52 percent of the market, while Symbian is found on 65 percent of devices.
The expected growth in smartphone numbers is “a [...]
Following the release of Android, it looks like Google has no intention of leaving the mobile world alone. According to Bloomberg, the internet search giant submitted a plan to Federal Communications Commission asking it to open up unused TV airwaves for mobile use.
Bloomberg reports that Google’s plan says that the vacant spectrum or “white spaces” [...]
Just days after Emirates announced plans to offer in-flight mobile connectivity, Qantas has revealed its going ahead with a plan to provide passengers with SMS and e-mail functionality on planes, also using Aeromobile kit.
The launch follows a trial which finished earlier this year. During 2008, Qantas will start rolling out the service on some domestic [...]
Today Skydeck, a California-based start-up came out of ’stealth mode’ and launched what is on the face of it a consumer-focused call log analyser - according to their blog the site daily retrieves calling records from the user’s mobile operator (US only at present) and its main feature tracks usage of inclusive minutes and texts [...]
Continue ReadingDespite all the talk of the iPhone being the data consumer’s phone of choice, it seems Nokia is still holding its own. According to research from StatCounter, Nokia’s browser has 0.15 percent of the UK browser market share (the stats take in browsers on both PCs and mobiles), with the iPhone making up 0.6 percent.
Meanwhile, [...]
It looks like carriers have finally lost the battle to keep control of consumers mobile content - according to ABI Research the average consumer gets their content from a mix of places, including the web, their mobile operator and from their own collections.
Of mobile users who watched video on their mobile, the split was fairly [...]
Sprint is obviously feeling generous these days - it’s giving away free mobile access to MySpace Mobile on all web-enabled phones - which it claims is a first for any US operator - to coincide with the official launch of MySpace’s mobile site.
MySpace users will get all the usual goodies - including being able to [...]
The world has finally got its first commercial in-flight mobile service, thanks to Emirates and supplier AeroMobile. Emirates saw its first call on flight EK751, on a plane travelling between Dubai and Casablanca yesterday.
According to AeroMobile, it’s the first time that voice calls have been allowed on commercial airline flights, after the European Aviation Safety [...]
The rumours of Dell making an appearance in the mobile market have been doing the rounds for a while, but they seem to be gaining momentum at a rapid rate. Digitimes reports that Dell might team up with Foxconn Electronics to develop Windows Mobile smartphones, after rival Acer announced it was to buy business mobile [...]
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