I had a note from Bob Roth at 4INFO highlighting another range of service updates. The sexy new functionality is the ‘reply 1′ option which automaticall sets up a text alert for the information you just requested. 1. The "Reply 1 to Set Alert" FeatureThis functionality eliminates the need to repeatedly type out andrequest information [...]
Archive | March, 2006
Google patents free Wi-Fi
Link: Business 2.0: Google patents free Wi-Fi – Mar. 28, 2006. More evidence has emerged that Google is getting ready to blanket the U.S. with free Wi-Fi, as Business 2.0 senior writer Om Malik reported last year. Now, the company has filed for three patents related to offering wireless Internet access. Just where does the [...]
MOVO Mobile and Captive Interactive Partner for Spring Break 2006
Link: MOVO Mobile and Captive Interactive Partner for Spring Break 2006. MOVO Mobile, a leading mobile marketing software company, and mobile marketing specialist Captive Interactive, today announced a new partnership focused on providing integrated mobile marketing solutions to marketers of consumer brands, event marketing and promotion agencies. MOVO’s hosted mobile application combined with Captive Interactive’s [...]
Hutchison 3 — you’re not wearing any clothes
You may notice that I left off my ’3′ phone from the list of interchangable mobiles. It has been sat gathering dust and synchronising whenever I hit the ‘sync’ button on the Apple here. I am still absolutely livid that I can only access 3 approved ‘great’ websites. I was walking past the 3 store [...]
I-Mode on o2 – I bought an NEC
I went out to the o2 store at Lakeside Shopping Centre today and got a £49.95 NEC i-mode handset. I thought, since no one’s sent me one (unlike Alfie over at Moblog UK who seems to be drowning in them), I should get one and have a play about with it. Either the handset is [...]
EU might do something about excessive roaming costs
Link: EU leaders back roaming charge cuts | The Register. The European Commission (EC) is to get tough with mobile operators over the high cost of roaming charges. Tomorrow, Viviane Reding, Information Society and Media Commissioner, is expected to publish her plans to cut roaming charges and give consumers a better deal. I’ll be surprised [...]
Mobileglu update – now you can upload flickr photos
If I read Justin’s latest email correctly, they’ve now given Mobileglu users the ability to send pictures *to* Flickr as well as view them. Very cool indeed. I’ve just re-enabled my flickr account and I’m going to try this out shortly. I wonder if Justin and the team there couldn’t do something with Doug Richard’s [...]
NBC’s Deal or No Deal (DOND)
I’ve been getting hundreds of comments from viewers of the NBC game show, Deal Or No Deal, looking to send comments to the show. I wrote a post about it a few days ago from an SMS text viewpoint. For everyone visiting: the site you want is here – www.nbc.com/DOND
Israeli politicians pounding the text
Link: Arutz Sheva – Israel National News. Kadima party activists started pushing voters to go to the polls Tuesday afternoon by sending out hundreds of SMS messages to cell phones. Not just pounding the streets, these party officials are using SMS. You know I talked to both the Conservative and Labour political parties about this [...]
Mobicode – Mobile Barcodes working?
Link: Creamer Media’s Engineering News Online, South African Industry News :: Breaking News. Mobile ticketing and mobile coupon solutions company Mobicode has announced that it will be launching its flagship service into the South African market, which will enablecompanies to deliver bar-coded tickets, coupons and vouchers to mobile phones throughSMS. If I had a penny [...]
Indian Actress Mona Chopra’s Nude MMS
Link: IndiaDaily – Actress angry over nude MMS!. Few days before the release of actress Mona Chopra’s film ”Naughty Boy”, it seems that someone has played really naughty with her and which is in a "bad taste", as the actress puts it. An MMS clip showing Mona undressing herself has been circulated all over. I’ve [...]
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