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Operators Getting Into Social Network Aggregators
07.09.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsOrange is rolling out a new service for its Orange World portal that aggregates a number of popular social networking sites into a single location, with plans to later launch a standalone app version. This stuff is pretty interesting for a number of reasons.
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Preach It, Brother Ewan!
07.07.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsEwan MacLeod over at SMS Text News enjoys a good rant, often accurately venting his spleen at some of the stupidity that’s far too rampant in this industry. But he’s really outdone himself with his latest effort, titled SMS Text News - How long will we be trapped in this mobile hell hole?:
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Local Services For Local People
06.05.08 | Permalink | 7 CommentsSome researchers from Northeastern University have been tracking the whereabouts of some 100,000 mobile users and found some interesting results. Many stories about the research have focused on the privacy implications, but we’ll ignore them for the time being, and focus instead on the main finding: that most people in the study (from what’s identified [...]
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They’re Tracking You — Around The Mall
Mobiles help UK malls track shoppers’ every move | The Register (via JimH):
Mobile phone tracking technology is being put to good use watching how punters migrate around a shopping centre, thanks to gear from Portsmouth-based Path Technologies.
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Unnecessary Convergence
05.08.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsI’m going to wade once again into one of Russell’s favorite topics, the separatista vs. convergionist debate. Whatever your feelings on the matter, I think we can all probably agree that there’s plenty of unnecessary convergence around. Like this handheld dictionary/MP3 player. Bet the folks at Franklin were left scratching their heads when these things [...]
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If You Send Lots Of SMS, You Might Be A Nutjob
Cellular News says:
People who send large quantities of SMS messages could be suffering from a mental disorder more usually associated with internet addiction - writes a doctor in the latest issue of the American Journal Of Psychiatry. He wrote that people who are denied access to the internet or mobile phones displayed feelings of anger, [...] -
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Save Us From The Lampposts!
03.06.08 | Permalink | Comments OffLampposts on Brick Lane in London are to be fitted with protective padding after the 118 118 information service found it to have the most “walking and texting” injuries in the UK.
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Shocker: ‘Little Interest In Operator Social Network’
02.28.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsAccording to 160Characters, “A study suggests that over 70 percent of social network users said they wouldn’t join a social network launched by their mobile service provider.”
A couple of thoughts here. I’d hoped that by this point, operators have figured out they can’t launch their own walled-garden social services that are only open to their [...] -
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The Sorry State of Mobile Retailing
02.05.08 | Permalink | Comments OffBoth Marek Pawlowski from the MEX blog and Dean Bubley of Distruptive Wireless have weighed in with posts talking about the sad state of mobile retailing and customer service in the UK. I don’t think it’s all that different from other parts of the world — my experience here in the States hasn’t been much [...]
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More Text Alert Services Make It Out To The Provinces
Back in November, I posted about seeing a couple of small restaurants touting their SMS shortcode offers, and wondered if the trend was really taking hold here in the US. I’ve now noticed that the paper here in town, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has launched its own text alert service.
Again, not a major milestone in [...]
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