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I’ve been waiting for one of these. For a long time I’ve met lots of different people who have been working on the concept of designing a system that will help sports team managers organise games and player availability.

I’ve never been a sports manager — in fact I haven’t actually ever played in a [...]

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Reader Jeremy emailed me in details about MyCaption — a service offering the ability to dictate email messages via voice.
All you have to do is (for example) click on the “Reply (MyCaption)” menu link and speak. When you’re finished, the MyCaption service will insert the dictated text into your typing window.
I think this is [...]

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I have, for a long time, been hunting for the ultimate mobile email system.
It doesn’t exist, as far as I am concerned, yet.
There are some brilliant possibilities for normobs. For example, last night I watched as Honour Pearson of Momail described in 20 seconds how Jonathan MacDonald’s wife could get mobile email setup on [...]

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We just got this in from Lars, Vice President of Marketing over at Momail.

Hi,
The thought’s in todays article is very, very right!
The hurdles described are some of the ones we at Momail and quite successfully are trying to solve.
Momail’s focus is consumer email and we focus on:
Ease of use – Simple registration, then just accept [...]

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This is almost what our staffer, James Whatley, is gagging for:

PicWing.com — buy a WiFi photo frame that you can email photos to. Genius idea. Absolute genius.

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I became aware of Nokia’s latest email offering recently, and being both an email junkie and S60 phone user I quickly installed it and had a play with it. I was intending to write a full review for this article, but I found that I kept wanting to talk about Nokia email in the [...]

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British mobile email and synchronisation company Synchronica has gone shopping, buying consumer mobile email outfit AxisMobile for $4.9 million in shares, bringing the provider new capabilities like email-to-SMS gateway and open up Synchronica’s service to lower end devices.
And that’s just the start of it: the company’s just announced that its raised another $10 million in [...]

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Online scammers - the type that usually send you badly worded emails with shoddy graphics asking you to give up all your bank details or eBay password - have found themselves a new target in the form of Apple’s MobileMe service.
According to Computerworld, the scammers sent out emails to MobileMe subscribers trying the usual ‘there [...]

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New statistics out on how much we love our mobile messaging (guess what? It’s a lot) from the analysts over at Strategy Analytics. According to them, the world will be spending $88 billion on messaging by 2012 - that’s 15 percent up on 207 - and while text messaging will still make up the lion’s [...]

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I’ve had my first email about CTIA in September. From MX Telecom, no less, asking if I’m up for an interview / briefing.
That I am. With nobs on. And with a large HD camera in tow.
We’re going to be doing a lot of wicked coverage from San Francisco this coming September.
Are you [...]

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I used to work for an agency that believed that Macs were better at everything.  It would spend a fortune on a Mac and then only use it to do MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the interweb.  It did seem like a waste of money, especially as the company in question wasn’t the best payer [...]

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Who really wants to be able to use mobile phones on planes? It seems not as many of us as the airlines might be hoping, according to a new survey commissioned by Yahoo. The research found that nearly three out of four people questioned wanted in-air mobile phone use restricted to silent features like SMS.
While [...]

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Just days after Emirates announced plans to offer in-flight mobile connectivity, Qantas has revealed its going ahead with a plan to provide passengers with SMS and e-mail functionality on planes, also using Aeromobile kit.
The launch follows a trial which finished earlier this year. During 2008, Qantas will start rolling out the service on some domestic [...]

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The world has finally got its first commercial in-flight mobile service, thanks to Emirates and supplier AeroMobile. Emirates saw its first call on flight EK751, on a plane travelling between Dubai and Casablanca yesterday.
According to AeroMobile, it’s the first time that voice calls have been allowed on commercial airline flights, after the European Aviation Safety [...]

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