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It’s Friday, and what better way to celebrate than a few classic ringtones to take you down memory lane? Only, these ringtones have a really nice sound, as they’re accompanied by Italian drummer Andrea Vadrucci (aka Vadrum). This guy totally goes to town to a medley of memorable ringtones, and you can’t help but watch [...]
Continue ReadingMiyowa, the mobile instant messaging geniuses, recently hired Scott Stonham as their VP of Product Marketing. I’ve been following Miyowa for quite a while particularly since they’re focused on educating and assisting the behemoth mobile operators of our fair planet understand and implement mobile instant messaging for their subscribers.
I always enjoy seeing how [...]
Broca, the secure messaging specialists, have been coming across my radar frequently across the last few months so I thought it would be rather good to put some questions to their top man, Ian Price (Managing Director). Here we go!
1. What was your first handset and network?
It was a BT issue phone - [...]
Alfie and his team have just gone live with CityClickers — a pan-European moblogging service launched in conjunction with the LG Viewty. I grabbed him for a few minutes and fired these questions at him to answer:
1. What is CityClickers?
City Clickers is a Pan European moblogging competition, asking people to send in images of [...]
I first met Martin Smith (right) Co-Founder of Frith PR (and it’s parent, Sonus PR) on a cold day in October when I was hunting for advice on positioning one of my companies. Since then (and after a very successful acquisition driven by super PR), I’ve referred many a mobile or telecoms related business [...]
Continue ReadingBen Harvey returns with his weekly Friday afternoon column - and this week he’s looking into his crystal ball and making some predictions for the future.
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Looking back through the history of mobile telephony always reminds me of those terribly clichéd film montages of time-travel; you know the ones - pages fluttering down [...]
Ben Harvey returns for another observation for a Friday afternoon, fresh from a week of relaxation in Portugal.
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They say that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone - mostly, this is true, especially in the areas of money & being happy with your own body. However, it really stands out, [...]
After talking about his experience with mobile phone retailers last week, SMS Text News reader Ben Harvey is back with a little Friday afternoon entertainment. Just don’t ask him about his day…
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I’m having one of those days. Like it or not, you and your mobile are partners and, like an [...]
Courtesy of this week’s edition of celeb gossip email Popbitch ..
Orange are preparing a novel Glastonbury competition. They have a bull fitted with GPS in a field in Cornwall, which is divided into squares. Guess which square the bull is in at mid-day each day for two weeks before the festival and you could win tickets. Except, [...]
Me (Alex) and Ewan (Ewan) were sitting in the pub last night, as you do, having a catch-up and a few beers. Or rather, I was having a beer and Ewan was demonstrating his insatiable appetite for orange juice and lemonade.
We’d had our mobile handsets out on the table for a while, showing each other [...]
Link: BBC NEWS | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Students create ’sensual’ phones
I couldn’t resist a quick blog post about this.
Students from the College of Art, Science and Engineering’s product design course have created six phones to support “intimacy and sensuality”. They include the Aware, which sends a tingle down your back if a [...]
Link: YouTube - Conan - iPhone Commercial
Apologies if you’ve seen this spoof ad before, but if you haven’t - it’s worth a look!
I invited Nate, founder of free texting service, TxtDrop.com if he’d like to do an SMS Text News Q&A. I always find it massively exciting to see how people answer these questions as it gives an excellent insight as to what mobile industry entrepreneurs (Nate, in this case) are thinking.
So let’s begin!
1. [...]
Now, this is a big one. It’s a two-in-one with both founders (Ed & Tom) answering the questions. Masbi is a secure mobile development company — I’ve used a screenshot from one of their recent Playtech mobile casino games there to the right.
Let’s take in a bit of background before shooting into [...]
In answer to my earlier blog post, this afternoon I was at the Hutchison HQ - ‘Hutchison House’, in Battersea.
Normally I get a nosebleed if I go anywhere near south of the Thames, but I’m ok if, as you see in the picture to the right, I can still see the water
Why was [...]
I’ve talked now and again with Oren of mobile messaging services company, eMoze and I asked him to tell us a little bit more about himself and his company.
Here we go…
1. What was your first mobile handset?
I have to think about this for a moment because the only thing that stands out in my [...]
If you thought SMS Text News readers were amongst the best, brightest, sexiest and most notable of the world’s mobile community, then you’d be dead rght. Well done.
Nice to see you here, by the way.
Pull up a chair.
I’m always surprised to meet, talk and interact with SMS Text News readers. It’s [...]
I’m going to be doing a lot more Q&A interviews shortly. If you’d like to do a Q&A drop me a mail. Don’t be shy about it.
If you work anywhere near the mobile industry, if mobile is a passion, or if you’ve something to say about mobile, then you qualify to [...]
I’m pleased to be able to bring you an SMS Text News EXCLUSIVE report from our man on the ground, Steve Procter.
EMBARGO — 4th December 2006
4th December 2006, LONDON - It was announced today at a clothing retail conference in Amsterdam that a brand new global clothes retailer is to launch early in [...]
Stefan is a huge Nokia fan.
On the scale of 1-10 where 10 is ‘MASSIVE fan’, Stefan ranks, I reckon, around 11 or 12. For at least 5 years, he’s been obsessing over their handsets, the company, their employees, the strategy — so much so that he’s decided to funnel his interest on [...]
I first met Rafe, All About Symbian founder, at Swedish Beers in October and it was super to catch up with him today at Nokia World 2006 — especially as I can now remember who he is as I completely forgot that we’d met
Right, let’s get to the first question:
1. What [...]
Do you recall a while ago I mentioned I had a new company? I’ve been putting in the hours with it big time recently. It’s called DCMI — which, by the way, stands for Data Centre Migration International. The site’s at dcmi.co.uk.
The headline elevator pitch runs like this:
DCMI provides the [...]
Earlier this afternoon I said if you had a few moments to drop me a note and say hi. Generally speaking most people reading this blog do so on a delayed fashion — that is, you are more or less guaranteed to be reading this post, which I’m writing today (Friday) on say, Saturday, [...]
Continue ReadingI’ve been watching and talking about LUUP mobile payments for a long time now. First launched in Norway in the heady days of 2002, they’re one of the continent’s most successful mobile payments companies - and have now expanded with a presence in Germany, Poland and the UK.
If you haven’t got yourself an account, [...]
I first came across Michael Tchong in 1998. At that time, Michael was running a weekly newsletter called ICONOCAST - founded in 1997, it was a cross between marketing, media, the burgeoning web — and quite a bit before the whole dotcom period. I read it for about 4 weeks before plucking up the courage [...]
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