All Posts Tagged With: "SMS"
Ewan posted a while ago about Yammer and that team have been playing with it. Initially we used a fair bit now interest dwindled, until a few days ago that is. Yammer have now have the ability to send updates by SMS via a UK number and also the option to receive all [...]
Continue ReadingI just came across this article on The Daily Telegraph, which says that as per a study conducted among UK’s mobile phone users, the amount of total text messages exchanged every single day counts up to roughly 217 million. Yes, that’s right, 217 MILLION texts in a DAY. The one you just sent a while [...]
Continue ReadingI need some help from you the lovely readers!
You may or may not be aware that I am part of my university’s student station Shock Radio and we are looking for a short or long code. We would would then need the SMS to be delivered to an email address.
We are a non profit organisation [...]
A note arrived in from reader David Bleja, to tell us about the new service he’s working on. If you’re in Australia (and we do have a big Australian contingent reading) do talk to David.
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I am the web designer for www.readytosms.com.au. We have launched our website recently, and thought you [...]
Continue ReadingCredit crunch? What credit crunch?
SMSGupShup, India’s equivalent of Twitter, has just taken $11m from Helion Ventures and Charles River Ventures, to help grow and develop the business (reports Silicon India).
This good news for the SMSGupShup team and for the mobile industry as a whole. The growth of mobile in the emerging markets is [...]
I came across this absolutely fantastic overview from Webmonkey that shows you how to create an SMS notification application in no time. I reckon it would take me about 20 minutes, using their code samples, to knock it together.
If you’ve got a working knowledge of PHP, I challenge you to take 20 minutes and [...]
I just got a text from my mother. She’s got my brothers together and is taking them — and potentially, me (hence the text) — to a restaurant in Billericay tonight.
Why is this relevant to you, dear reader?
Well, because I received notification of this by text.
By *text message*. From my [...]
I’m rather impressed with Poll Everywhere. Text polls, anywhere. Love it.
Fancy trying it out?
If you use the text option, here’s what it looks like:
You can vote online — with that little plugin there — or via text.
Continue ReadingBack in 2006, a MIR reader’s daughter got a text message.
And another. And another. And woosh. Across what appeared to be a few minutes, she was text-bombed.
Whether by mistake or by design, she ended up with a heck of a lot of premium rate texts being delivered to her handset. [...]
Text messages are cool, aren’t they? Expressing yourself in words and hurrying it across to your loved ones was never so interesting. Over the years, as technology advances, text messages and the technology behind it has been put to use in a lot of places.
Be it twitter, reality-show votes, ebay update notifications or simply device [...]
If you live in the Outtumwa school district — you know Ottumwa — down Iowa way? Well, you’re lucky. You can sign up to get updates from your child’s school by text. So reports one of those amusingly-named American television stations (”KTVO”).
The Ottumwa School District believes that parents will be better informed of cancellations, delays, [...]
Here’s Kip with a look at a rather innovative text service launched recently:
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When Ewan asked me to review a SMS text based cocktail recipe service, I must admit to jumping at the chance. I love alcohol - the photos of me on Facebook minus eyebrows are a testament to this! So [...]
Did you catch Engadget’s piece on the Avidynes MLX770 that offers pilots the ability to send / receive 32 character text messages?
Nifty. But up to $2 a text..
Do you remember Mike Taylor, Head of Media and Entertainment mobile aggregator, WIN Plc, is racing a banger (”really old car”) across Europe, representing the mobile industry as he goes? (Here’s our original coverage).
Well they’re more than half way toward their fundraising target of 5,000 pounds. The proceeds are for a UK adoption charity (Adoption [...]
I was just talking to question answering service, AQA and apparently — I haven’t managed to confirm this — one of the betting tips that they suggested has yielded one lucky punter a £33,000 win.
Nice.
Not a bad return for a premium rate text message eh?
I will hopefully get some more details soon.
I came across this post on a forum this morning. We’ve got countless, countless alerts, feeds and whatnot — all around texting, SMS and mobile. Tia’s forum post popped up:
Would you like to be email or text friends?
Hello! my name is Tia, im not new to Christianity but im trying now [...]
This is a good idea.? An excellent use of the medium (so reports the Shields Gazette):
SOUTH Tyneside offenders will soon be sent text messages to remind them of their next appointments.
Probation officers in Gateshead are already texting prolific offenders and those convicted of drug-related offences to remind them of future meetings.
And from next month, the [...]
So asks Tim Worstall on his blog:
So, all mobile phones have SMS or texting on them.
Is there any way to turn that feature off?
Specifically, a way to turn it off so that anyone who tries to text you knows that it didn’t go through? And that it won’t?
As much as it might wind me [...]
Morra Aarons-Mele, writing in The Guardian’s Comment Is Free, reports that she knew the Vice President’s identity two hours before her exclusive text message arrived from the Obama campaign. Why? It was reported on CNN. (See our original coverage of the concept.)
Crazy.
The whole point of the Obama VP text scenario was, I [...]
I’ve just had a very nice ham sandwich.
I’m having a coffee in the canteen.
I’m about to get on the plane. It’s quite busy.
I am in Marylebone, United Kingdom.
I am in Euston, London, United Kingdom.
What a busy day. Now it’s time to do the ironing.
So. Many of us will happily receive such drivel from Twitter when [...]
Giff Gfroerer if your go-to-guy if you’re doing 2-way text services throughout North America. Giff, President of i2SMS, dropped me a note to tell me about the latest campaign they’ve been working on. He’s been a long time reader of Mobile Industry Review and he knows that I absolutely eat-up news about mobile [...]
Continue ReadingIf you’re a bit of a book buff, you’ll soon be able to have a gander at the Man Booker Prize shortlist on your mobile. The Prize has teamed up with GoSpoken to make extracts from the soon-to-be-announced shortlist available by mobile.
Once the shortlist is published next month, Booker fans can SMS a shortcode to [...]
Visa has announced a new scheme to warn customers about potentially fraudulent transactions by SMS.
Using 2,000 guinea pigs, Visa is testing a new service which will send out text or email alerts to bank customers when certain transactions are carried out on their accounts, such as when a payment is made over a certain [...]
Sweden has a new fastest texter: it’s 17 year old student My Svensson, who beat her nearest rival by seven seconds to win the SMS Swedish Championship in Stockholm, according to RTE News.
To claim the title, Svensson rattled out a 141 character SMS in 61 seconds. To soothe her aching thumbs, Svensson will take home [...]
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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