Link: Vodafone K.K. to Launch New Chat and Multiplayer Game Services; Bluetooth(R) V-applis Enables Even Richer Communication. Vodafone K.K. today announces new services that use Bluetooth(R)*1 technology for wireless short-range communications. The services will launch together with the Vodafone 904SH, a new 3G mobile handset by Sharp scheduled to go on sale in late April […]
UK Valentines lovers send 120 million love messages
Mobile Marketing Magazine: Love is…an SMS Britain’s young, and not so young, romantics turned to their mobiles in droves to tell their loved ones what they thought of them on Valentine’s Day, sending 120 million text messages. That figure was topped only by that for the New Year period, when 165 million texts were sent. […]
Hopsital staff get one-touch VOIP mini phone
Cornwall NHS staff get VoIP phone badges Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has issued its staff with voice-activated handsfree ‘badges’, worn around the neck on a lanyard, which can put any user in touch with another member of staff just by saying their name or department into a microphone. Cool! I hope this is more […]
Mobile Operators, walled gardens, no clue
Link: Operators Don’t Sell Internet Access at MobHappy. That’s the problem  a closed attitude that operators have to be at the center of everything, instead of empowering other content and service providers and working out an ecosystem through which everyone can profit. How many times will carriers’ closed systems have to fail before they […]
Nokia N90 Edgeio Listing
I’m experimenting with Edgeio to see if anyone might want to buy this Nokia N90 — new and completely unopened — £400. edgeio-key: 44dbcffa5ac15c772ac0edc3c5b16015ed8ccd3d
Cyoshi launches FunkySexyCool mobile community in the UK
Link: Netimperative – Australian mobile community portal comes to Europe. Pitched as a ‘mobile nightclub’ FunkySexyCool uses a viral community concept offering live chat, messaging, photo and video profiles, competitions and a voting system. I shall watch with interest.
Jailed and fined for sending sexually explicit messages – China
So reports Techdirt …. Techdirt:China: Have Porn SMS, Will Travel — To Jail Now, they’re prepared to go a step further, tossing people that send sexually explicit messages in jail for nine days and fining them about $60.
Joining OTOV: One man’s quest
There has to be a better way than paying 14 pence a text and 40 pence a minute to other mobiles. You know what, I’ve heard about this thing… if you’re lucky… and if you can find them… maybe you can get……. [ the screen goes fuzzy ] I’m hoping that some day soon I’ll […]
Vodafone UK SMS tariff: 14 pence a text
How does everyone else do it? I must be missing a trick. Really, I must. Everyone who’s on Vodafone, they just simply eat the cost? Even, you know, mobile experts? And people who think they know a lot but don’t quite, like me? 14 pence to text someone after you’ve run out of inclusive texts? […]
I’m up for grabs
So I’m anybody’s bitch — in the context of mobile phone service supply. I’ve been browsing around. I feel that I need to have a ‘proper’ mobile. I’m missing out on cool things. I’m not able to be normal when I’m using the T-mobile MDA Pro. Reasonably good device, but you know, it lacks a […]
SMS.ac overview – update!
Barry of SMS.ac posted a note to the post I published recently about SMS.ac — check it out here. Thanks Barry!
Motorola L6 – ALMOST AN IMPULSE BUY!
Virgin Mobile (UK) – Shop – Find a phone – Motorola L6 “When it comes to thinness, the Motorola L6 is the out and out winner. This is no lightweight when it comes to the features….it offers Bluetooth that allows you to transfer snapshot images and other files to and from the phone. It also […]
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