All Posts Tagged With: "Mobile"
It has been reported that Comtel, an Australian telecom firm is to launch SMSpup: Mobile, an MNVO offering subsidised tariffs in return for adverts.
Unlike Blyk the service is not completely free, and that they will receive around a 65% discount on pre-paid tariffs.
Similar to Blyk customers who “opt-in” will receive MMS and SMS messages complete [...]
I’m being serious here. Since my time here as Mobile Industry Review I’ve read hundreds of news articles on the latest goings on with the mobile industry. Yes a lot of the so called news is terribly “boring”, but every now and then, I have to sit back laugh, and ask “why”?
Ricky kindly sent me [...]
You’re in the fourth largest country in the world, sitting in a stadium filled with thousands of people present there to watch some of the most spectacular shows and acts ever made, what do you do? I, for one, would have my eyes glued to the performers. But that’s not what the 24,000 users, present [...]
Continue ReadingI was actually working on a post about 3’s new Skypephone S2 and the handset’s integrated Facebook application when a reader, Ken, sent me this overview of their Skypephone S2 Facebook experience. Have a read…
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I’ve never been much of a FaceBook fan. Who needs it? I have plenty [...]
I just got this bit of news in from UK operator, 3. They’ve got one of the best priced business services in the marketplace (have a look here). Independent analyst, Pure Pricing, has verified this.
They’ve done a bit of research to find out just how mobile mad we are. Have a [...]
That’s one of the opened-ended questions posed by Kerrianne Gauld, Biz Dev at Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance on MoMoLondon this afternoon. Have a read:
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I’m doing some research on the mobile advertising sector and wondered if anyone had any views on the sustainability of the sector. If the projected ad spend by 2013 [...]
I was listening to Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 yesterday. He was talking about how much he enjoyed the Reading/Leeds music festival which took place a few days ago. During his show, he played some live recorded tracks from various bands and read out text messages from the listeners.
Quite a few of [...]
I am, for some inane, strange reason, on a PAYG tariff with one of my T-Mobile accounts. I asked them, ages ago, to swap me to their lowest plan — which was some UFIX Talk thing.
I’m not entirely sure what’s going on. They are billing me per month. Right?
Yet I’ve got a price plan balance. [...]
Giff Gfroerer if your go-to-guy if you’re doing 2-way text services throughout North America. Giff, President of i2SMS, dropped me a note to tell me about the latest campaign they’ve been working on. He’s been a long time reader of Mobile Industry Review and he knows that I absolutely eat-up news about mobile [...]
Continue ReadingHeh, did you catch this in the Washington Post the other week?
A virtual world for mobile devices, called Cellufun, has established a courthouse, where rule-breakers are indicted by their peers and tried by a jury of other community members. If found guilty of a charge, such as using profanity, users must carry out varying levels [...]
CNN are are reporting that mobile phones are helping keep voting and vote counting in check — through independent communication. In the piece, Mike Steere gives an example of journalists being able to use their mobile handsets to call their radio/TV stations to independently verify that voting is proceeding as expected.
The impact of the medium [...]
I’ve been toiling all night.
The fact that Disqus has not worked properly on mobile, ever since we changed over to it, has really been annoying me.
The swap to Disqus has, otherwise, been a great success — in the past couple of months we’ve had over 4,000 comments contributed. I really like the flexibility of [...]
I was browsing the World Wide Web, when I came across Ubik; a free mobile site creator. Ubik offers free site hosting, and sub-domains!
I thought I would investigate the service, as a keen web-builder myself; I’m always intrigued to see what there is to offer, and today I have been pleasantly surprised.
In all it took [...]
We’ve added a ‘TV’ section on the menu bar now to house our MIR show videos (and separate them from the special report podcasts we’re doing). Here’s what it looks like:
Now I need some professional headshouts of Dan, Ben and James…
Continue ReadingThe mobile industry has been WOEFULLY inept at dealing with mobile commerce. Appalling. There’s a heck of a lot of hesitation going on.
Only a few years ago, some mobile operators were doing their best to avoid getting anywhere near mobile commerce. Now, as revenue plateaus and the data market is moving swiftly to flat rate [...]
Fred Wilson, VC extrodonnaire at Union Square Ventures has published a list of the top 10 things he wants to see on his mobile.
I read down the list going ‘yeah, uh huh, yeah’ — and all sorts of companies and products were popping into my head.
Fred — the good news: A lot of the [...]
Tomorrow, it’s GCSE results day. This means two things – feeling extremely sick, and using my mobile phone a lot!
I haven’t really thought about the communications side of tomorrow much, seeing as I’m more worried about everything else. However, as Ewan pointed out to me tomorrow morning I will spending more time than I have [...]
After having the pure pleasure of playing around with some interesting, new, and innovative mobiles and applicatons over the past couple of weeks; I’ve come to a conclusion that I want a new mobile.
I’ve been sitting here looking at mine, a Sony W810i, and it just looks so boring, and big, compared to everything else. [...]
No surprise, actually, is it? Have a read of this:
3 UK’s Mobile Broadband offering has been named “Best Mobile Broadband” by the UK’s most popular dedicated broadband comparison site, www.top10-broadband.co.uk. The independent site, which claims over a million unique users each month, has given 3 UK the award based on [...]
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 [...]
A little while ago I got a note from 3.
“Would you like to try out one of our new handsets?” asked the chap.
“Sure!” I said. I’m always interested to see what’s coming next.
The chap wouldn’t be drawn on the identity of the handset. Quite a good idea, if you want to [...]
So you’re in the business of making watches that people buy to make themselves look good, yes?
Your business has had it’s lunch eaten by the mobile phone industry — to the point that almost everyone uses their mobile to tell the time. I don’t bother with a watch for this reason.
What do you do?
Design [...]
I’ve been using Devicescape for a while now on my Nokia E51 and it dramatically improves the WiFi user experience. So what is Devicescape? It’s a free application that runs on your mobile device and automatically logs you in to WiFi networks without the need to enter ID and security credentials each time. This includes [...]
Continue ReadingAs Rob commented earlier, the BBC’s Olympics text service looked promising.
I was looking forward to frequent text messages across the business day about plucky British chappies and ladies risking all for blighty and spectacularly failing. We’re very good at screwing up and coming last here in the UK. Or nailing the competition to the [...]
The team at txtNation are rightly delighted to be providing the infrastructure for wine maker, Blossom Hill’s summer competition.
Blossom Hill are giving away 20 summer garden parties worth £1k each. Nice.
3.75 million promotional bottles of their Rosé range are already out in the marketplace looking for your attention (and containing [...]
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