Regularly I get emails with slightly dodgy contents. Indeed a whopping 98% of my incoming email is total spam, or from utter weirdos. Filtering the real from the made up, or mad, does take a bit of time. (One of the reasons I get so much spam is because I choose to publish my email [...]

Warren Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, knows a thing or two about investing money. Sadly, he’s not quite up there with his Samsung handset. Or, an alternative viewpoint: Samsung spectacularly failed him when the marketplace really needed his attention. Did you catch this story? Here’s my rough assimilation of it. Bob Diamond, Chairman of Barclays [...]

Adding SpinVox’s call-centre technology and know-how to an existing product/service configuration will make a lot of sense to quite a few companies. One of my favourite mobile analysts, John Strand, is quoted in Mobile Today magazine thus: John Strand of Strand Consults said: ‘There is a lot of consolidation going on and no doubt players [...]

The BBC is reporting that SpinVox has been “put up for sale”, according to one of it’s investors. The actual quote the BBC obtained from Invesco Perpetual is: “The business has been put up for sale, and it is possible that, should a good sales price be achieved, the new valuation may be exceeded,” Invesco [...]

Heard of MyTokTok? I’m willing to bet half of the MIR audience will have heard of them and will be nodding sagely as they read. The other half won’t have come across the service yet. It’s currently in invite-only beta — you can sign-up to be first in line when the open it up though. [...]

Got a tweet yesterday from @weirdshanghai, always a good source for interesting perspective (not only on the mobile industry). On the subject of SpinVox, he wrote…. @Ew4n I have taught the executives at China Mobile an NEW ENGLISH TERM. “Lets not SPINVOX, this UP” seems to be well received. One person decided to be a [...]

It seems that at least some lights are on at the PhonePayPlus UK premium rate regulator. Have a read of this… Summary PhonepayPlus has recently experienced a sharp increase in the number of companies failing to pay fines for breaching its Code due to the companies’ insolvency – this is most pronounced in fixed-line services, [...]

If you recall I swapped from SpinVox back in late July over to HulloMail. And I haven’t looked back. I thought that I might miss the semi reliable transcription of SMS from SpinVox. I reckoned that getting the ‘gist’ was good enough — and, for a long time, it was. But I’m not missing it [...]

Former MIR contributor and Head of Digital & Social Media James Whatley, has quit the Stinking Ship that is SpinVox. Once the pinnacle of delight, excitement and social media excellence bar none, SpinVox is deservedly continuing to receive a complete and utter kicking. Whatley has, I suspect, had enough of it. He’s a talented communicator, [...]