Author Archive | Ewan

www.telephonyworld.com have posted a concept paper by ValueFirst Messaging regarding the use of SMS to manage and connect with employees of Business Proecss Outsourcers (BPOs).  It’s excellent to see the medium being discussed and used in this manner. Link: Here

Edwin Yapp and H. Amir Khalid at TechCentral have written an analysis of SMS use in Malaysia.  Malaysians still prefer the short message service (SMS) over the more advanced mobile communication services that are available in the market. There’s a lot more: Here

Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch blog has posted a note commenting on the Google Toolbar 4 beta ‘send to SMS’ function.  He points out that the service only works for US numbers.. something I missed when I looked at it last time.  Bit of an arse that for anyone outside of America.  Gary [...]

Australia’s The Age publishes a story tomorrow (well, it has tomorrow’s date on it) suggesting that Cricketing Authorities introduce the ability for fans having trouble with annoying "anti-social" members of the match crowd.  Very good idea, I reckon. In the light of these events, having seen visiting players insulted, cricket lovers frustrated and paying customers [...]

Televisionpoint.com posted an article today about SMS marketing and advertising.  SMS has undoubtedly emerged as the new marketing tool in Bollywood and of couse for our television news channels. Similar to the SMS beeps you might get from a restaurateur informing you about a discount scheme, or a disco declaring its forthcoming event, do not [...]

Really smart!  Google have implemented a send-this-link-by-SMS function in their latest beta version (4.0) for Internet Explorer.  Check it out here: http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/T4/

The first major change was the advent of email as a means of communication. This helped but only up to a point. Email is great but has a shortcoming. Till a candidate checks his/her mail he will not know that a recruiter is trying to get in touch. To get around the problem MeritTrac, an [...]

Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa, has the following piece: British Police Rapped for ‘Trendy’ Posters.  Avon and Somerset Police plastered baffling messages across rough estates in Bristol, south-west England, to warn young people to curb their anti-social behaviour, the Daily Mail said. But critics reckoned the masterminds behind the campaign should have their own [...]

It is particularly appealing to read this article in Asia Media Daily about Hurray Holdings, whose unit, Bejing Enterprise, has been fined US$700,000 and relegated to the bottom of service menus (and more) for "improper promotion of a service".  It’s appealing to me because here in the UK, everything is extremely lax. The regulator is [...]

Alas I’m not a Mac owner.  Well, I’ve got an iBook sat in the corner, but you know, I’m thinking of getting a Dual G5 and some of those 30" widescreens.  Meantime I’m sat on a Dell.  However, Mac users can now download a funky SMS widget for their desktops.  You need Mac OS X [...]

A brilliant run down of the recent trend of allowing sms-text-to-screen services, competitions, votes et al., at music concerts.  Read more of Judy Chia Hui Hsu’s piece in the Seattle Times here: Link

Ok, so a bit of artistic license in the title of this post, but that’s essentially the subject of this article from the Jakarta Post: When All You Need Is Just The Bare Essentials I was a huge fan of the Siemens SL55 — a super good phone that just did calling and texting… it [...]