All Posts Tagged With: "text"
Just got this one in this evening:
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Fine girl friend
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Ooohkay then…
Got another weird one sent in:
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I must hear the fireworks
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I’m not sure what to respond to this one…
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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Just had this one sent in:
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Happy Monday! (Re: published numbers)
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Thank you!
If you’d like to send me some weird and wonderful texts… +447769658104. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
Posted by email from MIR Live (posterous)
So I’m back to school this week; and during my free lessons, I often find myself aimlessly wandering around. I probably shouldn’t be, as I have mountains of work to do, but it’s certainly more fun.
But it turns out my aimless journeys around my over-crowded school can come in handy… And I came across a [...]
Do I resent my mobile?
I’ve been told once or twice that I resemble something of an old woman or more precisely an “Old Bag”. True, I do have my “old person” tendencies; but I do try to remain youthful as much as possible… Seeing as I’m only seventeen.
It has however hit me; I’m beginning to [...]
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 [...]
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 got a text message today from what reads like a young teenager in no small amount of distress. Goodness knows how they got my number - but it is public and associated with plenty of articles on text bullying services… So I’m assuming that they got hold of me that way. I got the [...]
Continue ReadingEarlier in the decade, I spent the best part of a couple of years really getting wound up by my shoes sticking to the floor in nightclubs all across the UK with our text-to-screen service.
Perhaps I was missing my calling.
I picked up this note from the Atlanta Journal about how text is being used to [...]
Teach Your Granny to Text & Other Ways to Change the World is a new book available for £6.60 on Amazon.
Here’s the background:
In a unique collaboration between the social change organisation We Are What We Do and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), thousands of children were invited to come up with simple, [...]
Steve Yzerman is a name that will mean next to nothing to international readers of Mobile Industry Review. A quick Google reveals that he was a rather good Ice Hockey player playing with a team by the name of the Detroit Red Wings.
Steve has been retired since 2006 and is now President of the team.
All [...]
I just bumped into Cristy Burgan, VP Marketing Solutions for Acision.
It was Cristy who wrote the script for Ryan Seacrest, presenter of American Idol, that taught America to text.
American Idol was one of the very first text-enabled live television shows - and that got millions of Americans picking up their handsets and scrolling to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 ReadingVisa 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 [...]
Continue ReadingWatchdog Ofcom has been taking a look at how much we’re spending on telecoms these days and rather happily has discovered we’re paying less but actually getting more for our money - we’re paying about 1.50 less than we were last year on our communications - mobile, broadband etc - and about 4.30 less than [...]
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