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Strain to chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lime. Nice.

By Ewan on September 2, 2008 in Applications

Here’s Kip with a look at a rather innovative text service launched recently: – – – 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 [...]

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AQA tip apparently yields one punter Â£33,000

By Ewan on August 28, 2008 in Services

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 Â£33,000 win. Nice. Not a bad return for a premium rate text message eh? I will hopefully get some more details soon.

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Did you ever have a penfriend when you were younger?

By Ewan on August 28, 2008 in Services

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 to find [...]

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Former prisoners/prolific offenders get text message reminders

By Ewan on August 28, 2008 in Services

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 [...]

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Obama screws up VP text message. Stupid.

By Ewan on August 26, 2008 in Services

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 thought, [...]

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Twitter’s UK text replacements – it’s going to be hard work

By Ewan on August 26, 2008 in Services

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.Â Many of us will happily [...]

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i2SMS powering Scion’s Minnesota State Fair text campaign

By Ewan on August 25, 2008 in Services

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 companies doing [...]

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Visa tests out text fraud warnings

By Julia on August 20, 2008 in Services

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 [...]

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Â£2,100 for fastest texting teen

By Julia on August 19, 2008 in Services

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 [...]

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Mobile messaging to be worth $88 billion

By Julia on August 15, 2008 in Services

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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4 in 10 of us have ditched our mobile provider

By Julia on August 14, 2008 in Operators

Watchdog 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 Â£1.50 less than we were last year on our communications – mobile, broadband etc – and about Â£4.30 less than [...]

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Seriously underwhelmed by BBC’s Olympics text service

By Ewan on August 13, 2008 in Services

As Rob commented earlier, the BBC’s Olympics text service looked promising. I was looking forward to frequent text messages across the business day about plucky British chappies and ladies risking all for blighty and spectacularly failing. We’re very good at screwing up and coming last here in the UK. Or nailing the competition to the [...]

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