Events
We’ll be producing a special report Mobile Industry Review (”MIR”) show from CTIA. I’m hoping to include Sybase, Sierra Wireless, Nuance, Zumobi and Cell Trust so far. There’s a lot more on the schedule.
If you’re heading to CTIA and you’d like to feature, drop me a note and we’ll sort schedules.
To qualify, you have to [...]
A note arrived in from the notable mobile marketeer, Helen Keegan:
For those of you who are interested, I’m running a one-day course on mobile marketing for the lovely folks at E-Consultancy on 16 September in London near Old Street. It’ll be a small class and we’ll cover all aspects of mobile marketing from SMS to [...]
We’re taking the weekly podcast to Brighton this Saturday morning. Oh yes. We’re descending with our superstar podcast team, Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley.
They are being recognised! Dan was slightly taken aback the other day when Alex Meisl of mobile genisues, Sponge Group, spotted him. (Dan’s company, Howler Tech, [...]
News just in from the guys at Moblog about their mobile blogging platform which is driving a great initiative by Greenpeace, Oxfam and Water Aid intended to make sure Glastonbury farm (yes, it’s a real farm with real cows and stuff) is back in a working state as soon as possible: the Leave No Trace [...]
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Dan Ilett here - I’m the publisher for SMS Text News.
SMS Text News is giving out 19 awards for mobile industry excellence and one award for being dreadful.
The categories are:
Best handset
Best application in mobile
Best marketing campaign
Best public social use of mobile
Best business person in the mobile industry
Best user
Best mobile marketing manager
Best CSR story
Best instant messaging [...]
After the success of the recent Unlimited Drinks event in London, we’re moving over to Dublin to host an event over there.
The exact details will follow shortly, but it will be held in central Dublin on July 10th, so if you’d like to join us then email me at ewan@smstextnews.com with the subject ‘UNLIMITED DRINKS=YES‘ [...]
So what’s important about July 4th - well it’s American Independence Day of course; it’s *ahem* the day before my birthday and … it’s also the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference.
They’ve got a pretty packed conference with some great speakers and some interesting panels. You can see the full finalised agenda here, but it includes all [...]
I popped along to the Flip Video launch this evening (Recent Coverage). It was held at the rather smart Soho House Hotel — they’ve got a little cinema there which is where Ray Sangster, President of Flip EMEA, welcomed everyone and presided over the launch.
The event was very well attended with media from all [...]
It was a brilliant evening tonight at Unlimited Drinks, London.
Thank you all for coming.
I have a huge pile of business cards that I now have to ‘write-up’. It is seriously going to take me ages. But I will get through it and do a few lines on everyone and a link to their [...]
Yes! Unlimited Drinks London is tonight!
If you’re in San Francisco right now you can probably just make it if you’re getting on the plane RIGHT NOW and you take the Heathrow Express when you arrive in. But make sure you’re names down on the list by emailing me (details).
Here’s the critical info
The date: [...]
Unlimited Drinks London is tomorrow night. I am really looking forward to it. It’s going to be brilliant.
If you haven’t already emailed to get on the guest list, please do so at the link above. We’re extremely busy — well over our 150 person limit, however I’m working on the basis that [...]
Put on your best underpants on Tuesday morning, for Charlotte (and quite possibly, some of her crew) of Noisy Media is due to be filming during Unlimited Drinks this coming Tuesday.
They’ll be grabbing each and every attendee and asking them to do a piece to camera.
Charlotte, when she’s not creating masterpieces for a veritable [...]
I’ve picked a random six names in no particular order from the list as a sweetener. Suffice to say you’ll be meeting some hot’rockin’mobile’geniuses.
- Mike Taylor, Head of Media & Entertainment Services for WIN plc.
- Jane Young from Chargebox
- Andy Smith, Sales Director, EMEA, AdMob
- Roger Gronberg, Founder, MoMail
- Darren Cockburn, Corporate Development, Channel4
- [...]
If you’re hoping to come along to Unlimited Drinks next week, please please get your name down.
We’re quite some way over the 150 limit however I expect a flurry of ‘woops, sorry’ notes — that’s obviously to be expected — so if you’re coming along, please do mail me — instructions at the link above.
If [...]
Congratulations to all at Blyk, everybody’s favourite ad-funded MNVO. The beautiful people were out in force when I arrived at the Blyk summer party this evening.
They know their stuff, do Blyk. Their events are always well orchestrated and organised. Here’s a QIK of me arriving:
I was a little bit late so I [...]
Continue ReadingI was with SMS Text News PodcastMaster Ben Smith at the Jawbone NoiseAssassin launch last night — a really, really well put together event.
Ben took some good QIK footage of the live demonstration — I’ll ask him to put it up shortly. Meantime, here’s some pumpin’ tunes footage:
And a quick look at the Jawbone [...]
Continue ReadingSMS Text News returns to it’s spiritual home — the city of London, UK, this June 10th. If you’re in the city that day, you’re most welcome to come along for an evening of drinks, food and networking with likeminded SMS Text News readers.
Critical Info
The date: June 10th (Tuesday)
The venue: Number3 Bar, New Burlington [...]
On Tuesday the 10th of June, Unlimited Drinks returns to it’s spiritual home: London, United Kingdom.
Put the date in your diaries! I’ll be writing an overview post shortly. We’ve got a rather wicked partner who’s supporting the event. Standby for more, soon.
I’m off to a round table event tomorrow featuring:
- Mike Short of the Mobile Data Association and O2
- Glenn Murray VP of NeuStar
- Steve Ives, CEO, Taptu
- Normal Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer, Wireless Grids
- Tomas Kleist, Director of interaction, Native
There’s Q&A afterwards. Would anyone care to guess my first question to (the very well [...]
Cellfire walked away with the Best Consumer Messaging Application Award at the CTIA E-TECH Awards. Good news. Cellfire are doing wicked things with mobile coupons. They’re not just selling the technology, no sir, they’re actually implementing the whole thing. If, for example, you’d like $2 off your next Supercuts haircut, you [...]
Continue ReadingI didn’t actually make it down to the exhibition floor today. I kept on meeting folk, bumping into people and so on to the point that, rather annoyingly, I had to walk straight past the entrance to the show to hunt for the bus to the Microsoft Mobile party. I’ve got two more [...]
Continue ReadingSir Richard is giving one of the keynotes at CTIA Wireless this morning. I’m heading off early to make sure I get some sort of seat. I hope there’s power for the laptop
I wonder what he’ll be saying? If there’s a chance for questions at the end, I am definitely [...]
Sniff goes live officially in the United Kingdom next month. It’s available on mobile operator o2, so anyone with an o2 handset reading, I’d appreciate you trying it out. I’ve got an o2 Blackberry, so theoretically I can try it out when I’m back in the UK. (I’d be dead impressed if [...]
Continue ReadingI was popping in and out of the media room at CTIA this afternoon when I spotted Michael Selvidge, PR Dude (that’s what his job title says on his card) of VSC Consulting. They do a lot of mobile related public relations and I regularly connect with Michael to find out what’s happening with [...]
Continue ReadingHello and welcome to CTIA. Thus, it begins.
Tonight I’m off to Showstoppers:
ShowStoppers at CTIA Wireless is where hot companies with cool products meet reporters and analysts covering all things wireless for work, for home, for play.
CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment is where the innovative world of wireless data plugs into the dynamic world of [...]
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