MMS
Link: News | Orange launches mobile ‘Play-Off’ competition - NMA
Just caught this on New Media Age:
Visitors to Orange World are invited to upload their own 10-15 second videos via MMS or the Orange website. They are then entered into one-on-one competition with a rival in several categories including face-off, dance-off and weird-off. The entrant with [...]
Link: Iran to Filter ‘Immoral’ Messages on MMS
According to Iranian state television the Telecommunications Ministry will soon begin filtering out ‘immoral’ messages sent using the Multimedia Messaging Service on citizens’ mobile phones.
I wonder how they’re going to do that? I suppose you can use various skin-filter-checker pieces of software to hunt for skin tones. [...]
Link: Telecompaper: “Your One-Stop Source for Telecoms Information!”
Belgian mobile operator BASE is offering MMS at the same price as SMS. MMS to other network operators, with interconnection to Proximus available from May
FINALLY. FINALLY!
If only operators had done this sooner………..
Link: Netimperative - Mr Bean gets ‘snap happy’ mobile campaign
Magnet Harlequin’s mobile division, headed up by Scott Seaborn, has created a new solution called Snap Happy, which makes use of the film posters nationwide.
When the consumer sees a Mr Bean poster with the Snap Happy logo, they take a picture of the poster using their mobile phone and send [...]
Link: Smith Micro Announces Its New ‘Paperless’ Mobile Sweepstakes Generator: Financial News - Yahoo!
Finance
Smith Micro announced it’s new Mobile Sweepstakes Generator, an intuitive ‘digital scratch card’ technology that transforms a one way marketing program into a dynamic interactive experience via MMS.
Smith Micro’s Mobile Sweepstakes Generator can power advertising promotions in a secure, imaginative and cost-effective [...]
This is a piece of genius.
82ASK, the wickedly good get-an-answer-to-anything-by-text service, has extended the value of their service substantially. It was already excellent, but I can imagine, if you’re a bit lost or if you’re looking for a street or the like, a map would, actually, come in quite handy.
So, now you [...]
I just had a note in from the delightful Gaylene regarding the new LG Shine competition.
If you’re feeling in a bit of an exciting mood, I reckon you should give it a go. If only to get your mits on the Shine. It is a gorgeous handset. If you’re feeling uninspired, forward [...]
This is ultra neat. I was chatting, late last week, to Alfie, about this. I’m gratified that the folks at Channel4 are not just listening to Alfie and his colleagues at MoblogUK — but are actually implementing moblogging into a year long project. I could name quite a lot of media companies [...]
Continue ReadingThe geniuses over at moblog.co.uk have pulled another triumph out of the hat with the news that they’re powering the Comic Relief mobile blog. It’ll be exciting to see how the audience uses the facility.
Picture messaging is really very much second nature to a lot of people so I reckon a high [...]
The writing has been on the wall for a story like this for a lonnnnnnnnnng time. With millions of high quality cameraphones in circulation, no wonder.
If Brad Pitt does a London walkabout and comes into contact with, let’s say, 1,000 people — I’m willing to bet that, instead of being exposed to [...]
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The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
Youngsters taking photographs of women in public places on the sly using camera-fitted mobile handsets and circulating them among friends through the multi-media messaging system (MMS) is disturbing the conservative Qatari society no end.
Women, especially when they are visiting shopping complexes, are cautious but despite this there are [...]
Here’s a kicker of a question from Alfie about MMS provisioning whilst roaming.
I’m wondering when a person travels over an international border with roaming enabled, and they switch over to the partner operator, whether they then have the correct settings to send mms….
I’d say no, but a couple of people I’ve spoken to have said [...]
I had an email in this morning asking if I knew anyone who could provide just one dedicated inbound MMS number for the UK.
The chap in question has asked if I can recommend multiple suppliers as per his client’s request. I knew off the top of my head that MX and iTagg [...]
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Czechs send record number of SMS, MMS messages on New Year´s Eve - Prague Daily Monitor
The number of SMS messages grew to 35.4 million from 33 million a year ago, while the number of MMS messages increased to 227,500 from 200,000. The total number of phone calls reached roughly 39 million.
Almost 230k MMS sounds [...]
I’m sat having a really nice steak, about a month ago, in Chez Gerard in Covent Garden. If you go on the right day, the service is impeccable, the steaks phenomenal, the fries cooked just right. Pick a wrong day however and it can be truly authentically French
So, sat enjoying this steak, [...]
Link: Etisalat extends MMS reach | Telco, Internet and IT
Etisalat has extended its multimedia messaging reach to 11 countries in the region. Subscribers can now exchange MMS with customers of Saudi Arabia’s Mobily and STC - Al Jawal, Oman Mobile, Jordan’s Fastlink and Umniah, Tunisiana, Bahrain’s MTC Vodafone, MTC of Kuwait and Qatar’s Qtel.
Excellent, excellent!
If you’re on the hunt for a UK dual-shortcode service to receive both text and picture messages, check out iTagg’s offer. Ostensibly for existing customers, if you’re not one, I’m sure you can register an account and take advantage.
As a special gift for the new year, don’t forget that you can upgrade as [...]
Mashable published a link to the grainy and shaky mobile camera phone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution.
The person doing the filming wasn’t very good at keeping the camera steady… it’s all over the place. Whatever your perspective on the execution, the footage is compelling, particularly as the mass media here in the UK [...]
Link: Czechs send record number of SMS, MMS messages on Christmas Eve - Prague Daily Monitor
There were record numbers of text messages sent, however I’m more interested in the amount of MMS messages — I added them up based on the stats in the article and got 236,000. The most interesting point in the [...]
Continue ReadingLink: Total Mobile
UK mobile phone users are now sending almost 1 million picture messages every day, according to the first set of figures on MMS message activity released today by the Mobile Data Association (MDA).
Well that’s quite interesting news. Obviously it’s not quite a patch on SMS traffic, but at least it’s sizable. You [...]
Link: Alfies’ Blog » Blog Archive » Shozu integrated into moblogUK
am pleased to announce the integration of Shozu into moblogUK. A ‘Get Shozu” link is now available to all site members via their profile page, linking to the dedicated moblogUK download page at Shozu.com, here: moblogUK and Shozu.
Get in, get in! [...]
Link: The Betty
One of the girls at work just stopped by my desk to show me a picture of her hamster on her mobile phone.
I used to follow The Betty’s blog in a previous incarnation. From what I can gather, she’s a fit twenty-something with a healthy physical appetite. Good news.
Now and [...]
Link: webitpr | Scoopt invites the Flickr community to ’snap, tag, sell’
Scoopt is inviting Flickr members to tag their images with keyword ’scoopt’. This enables Scoopt to push tagged images to buyers in direct response to demand. Scoopt will also encourage buyers to use Flickr as a commercial image resource.
Hmm, I wonder, I wonder. [...]
Continue ReadingI had a note from Alfie this afternoon to tell me that they’re about to go live with the official Girls Aloud moblog. It’ll shortly be linked directly from the Girls Aloud website which is sure to send them a ton of visitors shortly. What a coup for the Moblog team.
Girls [...]
Steve of iTagg sent this in:
I was on a stag do in Oxford this weekend and of course the moment came when we wanted to send a picture of the groom wearing his lovely red dress in a public bar back to his fiancee. There were 10 guys sat round the table who [...]
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