The Pondering Primate pointed out a press release from an SMS gateway provider that lists the top ten ways businesses in the UK are using text messages: 1. Recruitment agencies: people looking for temporary work can now register to receive SMS alerts about potential work from recruitment agencies. By sending a broadcast SMS to suitable [...]
Archive | August, 2005
The MobZombies are Coming
I’ve been meaning to post this from We Make Money Not Art for a few days and finally got my act together. MobZombies is a location based Zombie fleeing game, where virtual zombies chase the real world you. The longer you survive, the more zombies appear and the better they are at chasing you. But, [...]
Music Becomes Key Sponsorship Area For UK Carriers
Mobile operators in the UK are moving their sponsorship spending out of sports and into music, says Dow Jones Newswires. They’re saying sponsorship for sports like football has become too crowded, and music events help them better reach a wide array of young users. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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SMS Voyeurism
You know how some web sites have a fascination that’s almost voyeuristic – I’m thinking of things Hot or Not, still going strong after all these years. Now there’s a another one, in the form of a new feature from Treasure My Text, the sms online storage company I wrote about last week. It seems [...]
Top UK Java Games
It’s been 8 months now since we looked at Java game downloads in the UK, so I thought it would be interesting to see how the market has developed since then. After all, 8 months is a whole generation in terms of technical and user development in mobile. According to ELSPA’s Official Mobile Games Java [...]
Comparing US and UK Texting
UK text-message figures are out for July, and the number of messages sent continues to grow, hitting 2.7 billion last month. This made me wonder how US figures stacked up, and I was a little surprised to find that the CTIA says 5 billion messages a month are sent in the US. Of course, there [...]
What’s That, Sonny?
TechDirt reported last week about a phone developed by Fujitsu for DoCoMo for the elderly. Among other features, it slows down speech to 70% of real time, so old folks can understand what you’re saying to them on the phone. Frankly, I’m not sure oldsters need to slow speech down – they may be a [...]
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I Want That One
An article in New Media Age says that “only one in 20 business people understand the difference between Wi-Fi, 3G and GPRS technologies” according to some new study. I’m stuck trying to figure out why that’s important. It’s an indictment of carriers’ marketing and service failures more than a sign of user ignorance. There’s no [...]
Airtime As Currency
I spotted a column by Dave Birch in the Guardian from last week (when it looks like Emily posted it on Textually as well) that’s pretty interesting about how mobile phones are being used to facilitate payments in African countries. It’s nothing advanced as Simpay or PayPal for mobiles or anything like that — it’s [...]
Filtering for Kids
A few years ago, as a fairly new and keen young parent, my wife and I went on a First Aid course to learn what to do if a child was injured. One of the themes of the course was that, to an extent, kids have to learn themselves what’s dangerous and the consequences of [...]
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