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Last day! Almost there!

By Ben Smith on December 10, 2008 in News

It’s the last day of our Christmas Presents campaign in aid of NSPCC Childline and the UN Foundation… So far we’ve had a fantastic £1400 donated – we need £100 more donated today to make our target! Thankyou to all today’s donors for your generosity – with your help we’re nearly there. See this post [...]

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Last day, last chance! Extra bonus prize.

By Ben Smith on December 10, 2008 in News

It’s the last day of our Christmas Presents campaign in aid of NSPCC Childline and the UN Foundation… So far we’ve had a fantastic £1300 donated – today we need £200 donated to make our target! So if you or your firm hasn’t donated yet, please do here. Remember for every £5 / $10 donated [...]

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2 days / £300 to go!

By Ben Smith on December 9, 2008 in News

STOP PRESS: The excellent people at Connection Software have just added THREE SMS/MMS Accounts, credited with 250 messages to the prize pot! The credits can be used to send SMS or MMS globally and the messages can be sent from a web interface, desktop Mobile Messenger program or Mobile Java Application (also included). —- Latest [...]

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3 days to go!

By Ben Smith on December 8, 2008 in News

If you’ve not been following our Christmas Presents campaign in aid of NSPCC Childline and the UN Foundation then, where have you been? So far a fantastic £1100 has been donated – we have 3 more days to make our £1500 target! So if you or your firm hasn’t donated yet, please do here. Remember [...]

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Goodbye to the E63

By Ben Smith on December 7, 2008 in Devices

Thursday was time to say goodbye to the Nokia E63 – a pre-release unit the excellent folk at WOM blessed us with on announcement day… and I’m going to be sad to see it go. Although less capable than its E71 older sibling, with a 2MP fixed-focus camera and no internal GPS, it’s going to [...]

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Skypephone S2 added to prizes

By Ben Smith on December 3, 2008 in News

Thanks to all today’s donors – we’ve just hit £900… still some way to go to our £1500 target though so please head over here and donate to these two worthy causes! …and if you needed any more incentive than the ton of prizes we already have and that warm feeling of doing something nice, [...]

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Thanks for your donations!

By Ben Smith on December 2, 2008 in News

UPDATE: So far we’ve raised £890. We need another £610 by the 10th to reach our target! Many thanks to last week’s donors, including David Salgado, Darren King, Aaron Homer Vergara, Chris Walters, ‘Lulucachoo’ and Sam Elkin for their generous donations. Also to the Vodafone ‘Live Guy’ team who added another fantastic prize to the [...]

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New Prize: Vodafone Dell Mini Inspiron Netbook

By Ben Smith on November 27, 2008 in News

LATEST UPDATE: £800 donated so far – that’s enough for 16 children, traumatised by abuse, to spend one hour with a social worker rebuilding their trust in adults. Please help us reach our target of £1500 by 10th December! The awsome people from Vodafone’s ‘Find Live Guy‘ campaign have added another prize to the excellent [...]

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Christmas Presents at Mobile Geeks

By Ben Smith on November 26, 2008 in News

If you’re in London (All Bar One, New Oxford St) for Mobile Geeks of London tonight be warned that I will be there collecting donations for our MIR Christmas Presents campaign supporting Childline and the UN Foundation. As a special treat I also have a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of champagne which we’ll [...]

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Esendex are doing their bit

By Ben Smith on November 25, 2008 in News

LATEST UPDATE: £600 donated so far – that’s enough for 60 one-to-one online counseling sessions for children distressed by abuse to ask for help for the first time. Please help us reach our target of £1500 by 10th December! So far the ‘Christmas Presents’ campaign to raise money for Childline and the UN Foundation has [...]

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MIR readers ROCK! (and win free prizes)

By Ben Smith on November 24, 2008 in News

Thanks to all who’ve donated to the Mobile Industry Review ‘Christmas Presents’ campaign to-date. Particularly recent donors Mike Butler, Jamie Klinger, Kara Hoisington and Jo Jensen. I’ve just come back to my desk to find £100 has been donated so-far today… That’s enough funding for an NSPCC ChildLine worker to answer calls for 5 hours, [...]

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Christmas Prize Draw is back!

By Ben Smith on November 20, 2008 in News

After a short break earlier in the week the prize draw is back and now provides direct dual US and UK currency donations to the 2 good causes. Donate £5 / $10 (or more!) to get chances to win a great selection of prizes. Please make a donation, help these excellent causes and enjoy some [...]

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