All Posts Tagged With: "text"
I was just talking to question answering service, AQA and apparently — I haven’t managed to confirm this — one of the betting tips that they suggested has yielded one lucky punter a £33,000 win.
Nice.
Not a bad return for a premium rate text message eh?
I will hopefully get some more details soon.
I came across this post on a forum this morning. We’ve got countless, countless alerts, feeds and whatnot — all around texting, SMS and mobile. Tia’s forum post popped up:
Would you like to be email or text friends?
Hello! my name is Tia, im not new to Christianity but im trying now [...]
This is a good idea.? An excellent use of the medium (so reports the Shields Gazette):
SOUTH Tyneside offenders will soon be sent text messages to remind them of their next appointments.
Probation officers in Gateshead are already texting prolific offenders and those convicted of drug-related offences to remind them of future meetings.
And from next month, the [...]
Morra Aarons-Mele, writing in The Guardian’s Comment Is Free, reports that she knew the Vice President’s identity two hours before her exclusive text message arrived from the Obama campaign. Why? It was reported on CNN. (See our original coverage of the concept.)
Crazy.
The whole point of the Obama VP text scenario was, I [...]
I’ve just had a very nice ham sandwich.
I’m having a coffee in the canteen.
I’m about to get on the plane. It’s quite busy.
I am in Marylebone, United Kingdom.
I am in Euston, London, United Kingdom.
What a busy day. Now it’s time to do the ironing.
So. Many of us will happily receive such drivel from Twitter when [...]
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 ReadingVisa has announced a new scheme to warn customers about potentially fraudulent transactions by SMS.
Using 2,000 guinea pigs, Visa is testing a new service which will send out text or email alerts to bank customers when certain transactions are carried out on their accounts, such as when a payment is made over a certain [...]
Sweden has a new fastest texter: it’s 17 year old student My Svensson, who beat her nearest rival by seven seconds to win the SMS Swedish Championship in Stockholm, according to RTE News.
To claim the title, Svensson rattled out a 141 character SMS in 61 seconds. To soothe her aching thumbs, Svensson will take home [...]
New statistics out on how much we love our mobile messaging (guess what? It’s a lot) from the analysts over at Strategy Analytics. According to them, the world will be spending $88 billion on messaging by 2012 - that’s 15 percent up on 207 - and while text messaging will still make up the lion’s [...]
Continue ReadingWatchdog Ofcom has been taking a look at how much we’re spending on telecoms these days and rather happily has discovered we’re paying less but actually getting more for our money - we’re paying about £1.50 less than we were last year on our communications - mobile, broadband etc - and about £4.30 less than [...]
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 [...]
Mobile marketing smarts, Incentivated, are helping out British retailing giant, Marks & Spencer (”M&S”) with their latest mobile marketing campaign, ‘Back to School’.
The concept is that shortcode and keywords will appeal in the national press here in the UK, allowing M&S to track the response. All users then get a reply with a link [...]
The Olympics are nearly here.
It’s been four years since myself and five friends screamed ourselves at a TV as the men’s coxless 4 won gold by a gnat’s knacker.
Four years since I nearly got fired for watching the badminton semi final instead of working. Four years since GB I watched in rapture as team GB [...]
A recent service by GPS in Barking and Dagenham to target people who want to give up smoking has apparently seen great response rates from patients when targeted by text message.
The service, run by iPLATO, is being used to ask patients what there current smoking ’status’ is. The idea is that those who have been [...]
AME Info has a few lines about the new ‘Q-Cash’ system that’s shortly going live in the Emirate to enable people to pay for their taxi fares by text. This will be perfect if you come out of the restaurant or office without any cash in your pocket. Or if it’s tipping it [...]
Continue ReadingWho really wants to be able to use mobile phones on planes? It seems not as many of us as the airlines might be hoping, according to a new survey commissioned by Yahoo. The research found that nearly three out of four people questioned wanted in-air mobile phone use restricted to silent features like SMS.
While [...]
It looks likes US operators will be texting their lawyers. According to RCR News, a class action lawsuit is afoot against “six mobile-phone carriers and a top mobile virtual network operator” over the cost of incoming and outgoing SMS.
RCR says the suit is looking for “recovery… for unauthorized charges, wrongful collections and unjust enrichment” [...]
What do people do during disasters? Turn to their mobiles, of course. The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a plan that will see mobile networks used to transmit alerts during disasters or emergencies.
The system, called the Commercial Mobile Alert Systems, will see texts sent to mobile users including, presidential alerts, imminent threat alerts and child [...]
A survey out from mobile comparison shopping site Wirefly has turned up some interesting results on SMS take up. The survey says that roughly a one third of US users called themselves heavy texters and sent between one or two a day to hundreds a month, with another 29 percent labeling themselves as occasional texters.
Perhaps [...]
Europe gave the thumbs up for mobile usage on planes, after Emirates, Continental Airlines and Qantas decided to introduce the service. Now, it seems, New Zealand is next in line.
According to the New Zealand Herald, the Kiwi’s national carrier is planning to introduce an in-flight texting service.
Meanwhile, several reports have highlighted that despite European [...]
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