Archive for April, 2008
Can anyone help out Jeb:
Ewan, you wouldn’t happen to have the settings for tethering a MacBook to a Nokia would you? Since I upgraded to Leopard I haven’t been able to tether. Thanks.
I’m meeting Tariq, CMO of Nimbuzz. I’ve been using Nimbuzz non-stop for weeks now — it’s a wickedly cool mobile instant messenger service with VOIP (and a lot of other cool facilities) built straight in. Take a look at the Skype integration — it is very, very smart.
I’m meeting with Tariq tomorrow to see [...]
Have a read of this — just got it in from 3:
3 is now offering its most competitive Mobile Broadband deal to customers by reducing the price of its Pay As You Go USB Modems (or Dongles) to £49.99 - a saving of £50 on the original price point.
The new retail price for the black [...]
A reasonably well known fact amongst anyone who’s been to the Vodafone Newbury HQ — or anyone who works there — is the presence of a fully functional Vodafone shop on site.
I’ve been hearing about it for years so it was with no small amount of child-like-wonder that I felt drawn to it [...]
Bit of a political situation here.
I was sat in the Vodafone HQ reception this afternoon bashing away on the email waiting for one of my friends to finish his meeting so we could go for a coffee after work.
I had not configured my Vodafone USB stick to work with the Apple Air — [...]
ANARCHY!
ANARCHY!
Yes! I am now officially never using a wireless hotspot again. Not unless I have a stupidly crazy business critical need to do so.
I am sat in the M&S Moto service station outside Reading (that’s pronounced “Redding” for our international users, not ‘Reading’ as in “I’m reading a book”). I am [...]
Got a few non SMS Text News related meetings today down at the headquarters of everybody’s favourite mobile services giant, Vodafone. Heading down to the famed Newbury HQ — I’m looking forward to it. I’m going to see if their on-site shop will do me a good deal on a Blackberry. You [...]
Continue ReadingAt the Internet World yesterday I popped by the Dynmark (the “texting people”) stand and caught up with their top man, Oscar, to see what was going on:
If you’re looking for a link to Dynmark’s e-txt desktop text service, it’s at here.
Continue ReadingPassed by the Apple Store the other night at 1am in the morning.
These two security chaps — one in the foreground, one in the background, seemed to be having fun. Working at the Apple Store in the evenings must be a helluvalot more entertaining than some security jobs.
I really like the idea of sticking a GPS Snitch in my car and just leaving it there. It’s a small device, not that much bigger than a set of keys and it continually reports its position so you can track where it is.
Useful for checking up on creative teenagers or for finding out [...]
Canadian execs are demanding overtime - for reading messages on their BlackBerrys. The country’s civil service union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) told The Ottowa Citizen that companies who expect their workers to be permanently checking their mobiles should pay for the privilege.
Ed Cashman, PSAC’s regional executive vice-president told the paper: “These are [...]
Seen a crime and want to report it anonymously? If you’re in the US or Canada, you can now dob people in using SMS, thanks to a new application from mBlox and Anderson Software called TipSoft.
It’s already being used by community action group Crime Stoppers and is already up and running in 16 Canadian cities. [...]
There’s no denying haptics have a certain cool factor. Obviously they’re appealing to venture capital firms right now: motion-sensing software company InvenSense has attracted $19 million in a series C round of funding, led by Sierra Ventures and a load of other big names like Qualcomm Ventures and DoCoMo capital.
InvenSense, whose applications include image stabilisation [...]
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Continue ReadingTechCrunch has the gossip:
The key measure of Twitter usage is total users, total active users and total messages sent. And according to a source close to the company, these are the current Twitter usage stats:
March 2008
Total Users: 1 million
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 2 million/month
Those stats have roughly doubled just since January, [...]
Got this in from one of my industry sources: Vidrunner — ostensibly similar to QIK and FlixWagon, Vidrunner could be, he reckons, the Next Big Thing.
(Especially if it runs on a RAZR….)
Leo De Haan, top chap at Black Bull Films, avid film maker and SMS Text News fan, grabbed me as I strode through the office today.
“Do you know anyone who owns or works in a hotel?” He asks.
“Errr,” I think, “I used to know the chap who runs the London Hotel School,” I blurt out, [...]
Mobile messaging operator TynTec believes — as I do — that the growth of the medium of SMS is being limited by perception. Their release today goes into more detail — I’ve published it in full as I think this issue deserves wider awareness.
I’ve been in many meetings with serious business people making serious [...]
I registered on Sniff and thought I’d try it out. Only thing is, I need people to try it with. Fancy giving it a go?
Tell me and I’ll send you an invite from my console.
Deary me. Just saw this when I was looking at Tom Whettem’s Facebook profile for the piece earlier. He’d just become a fan of SMS Text News, making him the 8th.
Eighth!
250,000 readers. If you fancy joining, and, er, becoming a fan, you can do so here.
If you don’t have access to Facebook’s integrated text notification service — and you don’t, if you’re living outside of America — then this new application, ‘SMS Notification‘, is for you.
I got a note from developer Tom Whettem to let me know they’d gone live. He writes:
Up until now, the only users [...]
Go on. You can tell me.
I know you’ve been holding it back for a while.
It’s just, I know too. I know you love me.
Because when we did that video call last night, I got an MMS and, well, it told me everything I needed to know. Thanks to TelcoBridges.
Yes! [...]
Continue ReadingBuongiorno, the mobile media and technology company, have produced a rather interesting research project looking at how (young) people use their mobile devices.
If this is anywhere near your sphere of interest, take a look through their flash site here: http://www.cellsurfing2008.com/.
(Thanks Stefan)
Very nice indeed (Engadget link) Shame it involves getting your soldering iron out.
Continue ReadingLast night my other half had a slight issue whilst driving — the car was stuck in one gear and making a strange noise. So she did the sensible thing and pulled over.
Trouble is, she didn’t quite know where she was.
‘Somewhere on the M4,’ she told me, rather panicked, ‘Just after [...]
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