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Krystal, our Operations Manager is heading to New York on Friday to check out the mobile scene. And do some relaxing, I imagine.
She’s steadfastly refusing to buy an iPhone 3G at the moment. Maybe she will change her mind after a weekend with just her iPod with wifi. You never know.
If you’ve [...]
My Fido Uno unit arrived yesterday, just got it all set up and ready to test! Very exciting!
Stay tuned!
Ok.
So Rogers and Fido (same company) are getting the iPhone. July 11, the BIG day.
I figure, they must have a plan, they MUST have a sensible data plan coming.
And not just this “unlimited browsing” they keep trying to throw at me, I’m talking real honest to goodness data.
So the countdown is on, I’m being optimistic, [...]
The more I think about it, the more frustrated I get by my inability to tie all my voice messages together in one place. I have several fixed lines, including home and home office, a couple of VoIP services and several mobiles. Whilst I don’t dish out all the numbers to callers, I still receive [...]
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CellSpin Launches the First Mobile Blogging Service for Twitter and Pownce to Support Audio, Video, Picture and Text Posts
CellSpin enables users to post audio, video, pictures and text ‘tweets’ from 300+ phones worldwide
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire/ — CellSpin (http://www.cellspin.net/) today announced its support for sending ‘tweets’ in all four media types (audio, [...]
We’re sure to see numerous Olympic related text initiatives coming forward in the next couple months, but here’s one that’s just been announced by 4INFO.
SAN MATEO, CA. - (June 10, 2008) — 4INFO, Inc., the leader in SMS publishing and advertising services, announced today that it has developed a comprehensive mobile alerts program to help [...]
Continue ReadingOur very own James Whatley, (well we have to share him with SpinVox) implied something big was coming on last week’s Podcast (if you haven’t heard it yet, where have you been!?) and here it is.
TV AND SPINVOX PARTNER TO LAUNCH FIRST EVER INTEGRATED VOICE POWERED CAUSE-RELATED SOCIAL NETWORKING CAMPAIGN ‘STAND BY WHAT YOU SAY’
CAMPAIGN [...]
We’d like to take a minute to break from all the iPhone hoopla and introduce a new contributor here at SMS Text News, Malcolm Murphy. Malcolm comes to us with a passion for mobile and is eager to contribute here on our blog.
With that, here is his first article for us, Where is the innovation?
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London, 10th June 2008 - Pedro Sañudo has been appointed new Chief Marketing Officer of Zed Group, the leading global MVAS player in terms of revenue geographical footprint. This appointment reinforces the marketing structure of Zed Group worldwide. As the new Chief Marketing Officer, Sañudo will have responsibility over the 53 countries [...]
Just got word I’ve got a Fido Uno unit on it’s way to me tomorrow.
Exciting stuff! Stay tuned…
Alderley Edge, 3rd June 2008 – Mobile marketing company Mediaburst today announces that its finance director, Gary Bury, has been appointed managing director of the company with immediate effect. In his new position, Bury will consolidate the progress made by the company over the past year, particularly as a mobile marketing support company for marketing [...]
Continue ReadingIn a continuing effort to enlighten all of you with the goings ons of the Canadian Mobile Industry, I’ve been getting “out in the field” (Trying to be inconspicuous, almost got kicked out of the mall for trying to take a picture last time) to bring you the latest.
Exhibit A, here’s a top quality piece [...]
For the regular readers of this column you will know the format is generally I discuss anything I want to and then move on to explain and describe my interactions with the adverts BLYK send me. However this week I will not be able to cover the adverts for the last 14 days, this is [...]
Continue ReadingJust got this in, NearU has teamed up with LotteryUSA to implement a new service that sends you the winning lottery numbers by text message.
PASADENA, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire/ — NearU Search (http://www.nearusearch.com/) has inked a deal with Ann Arbor, MI based lottery results provider LotteryUSA (http://www.lotteryusa.com/) to offer the most recent draw information to [...]
This week we take a quick look at Jambo Mobile.
Toronto based Jambo Mobile was founded in 2002, and have since built a reputation as one of Canada’s leading mobile aggregators by focusing on two critical components, the development of successful mobile media strategies and the technologies that power them.
Using mobile solutions that leverage SMS, MMS, [...]
So Fido has come out with their new Fido Uno service, which essentially allows you to get rid of your landline and use your Fido phone.
Details below:
FIDO UNOTM is a new wireless service that lets you use your Fido as your home phone, and gives you all the benefits of a mobile phone when you’re [...]
In my never ending quest of being annoyed with a large portion of everything Fido does, I present exhibit A:
U.S. TEXT MESSAGING RATE CHANGE
Please note that effective July 15, 2008, the rate for sending a text message from Canada to the United States is changing to $0.25 (from $0.15). This change also applies to Text [...]
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