Palringo’s Optional Location Information
Permalink: Palringo’s Optional Location Information by Alan Harten
Palringo, mobile IM provider, has announced that it is adding a new feature to its services that allows the user’s contacts to see their present location.
The new service has varying degrees of accuracy depending on location.
In some areas the software will identify the actual street,in others just the area of the city. In the [...]
New Targeted Approach To SMS Load Offers
Permalink: New Targeted Approach To SMS Load Offers by Alan Harten
Business Logic Systems is a developer of business intelligence and marketing campaign software for mobile telecoms companies.
They are launching a new product they have called the InTelestage Revenue Optimiser.
The company believes that campaigns that encourage customers to load their mobile phones often miss their mark with what the company calls a scattergun approach, which [...]
Mumbai Police Get SMS to Target Drunk Drivers
Permalink: Mumbai Police Get SMS to Target Drunk Drivers by Alan Harten
In perhaps one of the strangest mobile pairings to date, the Indian city of Mumbai, still known to many as Bombay, has been given value added services from provider BPL Mobile, in the form of a solution to assist the police force of the world’s second biggest city to deal with drunk drivers.
Bombay is often [...]
Unused Package Deals Wasting Up to £20 Per Month
Permalink: Unused Package Deals Wasting Up to £20 Per Month by Alan Harten
According to Omio.com price comparison website, many mobile phone users are just wasting their hard earned cash by paying for both text and talk time that they don’t use.
The problem arises from packages of talk and text time purchased by customers that are subsequently not used.
In the UK there are over 30 million mobile [...]
VISTO Social Networking With Push Mobile
Permalink: VISTO Social Networking With Push Mobile by Alan Harten
VISTO Mobile 6 is a new method of bundled communications that aims to handle not just email and text, but an array of communications that will blur the line between mobile use and social networking.
SMS, IM and photo sharing will be available, as well as social networking and even traditional email services.
The idea is [...]
Universities And Schools Moving Towards Text Communications
Permalink: Universities And Schools Moving Towards Text Communications by Alan Harten
Clickatell is a leading regular mobile messaging provider who is moving steadily into the education arena.
Basically they have spotted the need for all kinds of communications related to education facilities.
They see a big demand for text messaging, including professor-to-student, educational institution-to-community and, probably least popular with kids, teacher-to-parent.
There is also a considerable demand [...]
Moneybookers Gives SMS Banking Confirmations
Permalink: Moneybookers Gives SMS Banking Confirmations by Alan Harten
Over the past few years, many of us have become accustomed to the once worrying concept of Internet Banking.
There was considerable consumer resistance when it first appeared, with “shock, horror, probe” tabloid headlines saying we would all be hacked and have our money stolen.
Although this has turned out to be a genuine problem, it [...]
Actel Gives Derdack 50 Value Added Services
Permalink: Actel Gives Derdack 50 Value Added Services by Alan Harten
Actel who is very active in the Middle Eastern mobile messaging solutions market, has announced that it has now completed a major operation for mobile messaging platforms and notification workflow software provider Derdack.
The work involved message master(r) xsp, the company’s mobile messaging platform.
Derdack needed more than 50 value added services attached to the system, [...]
Red Oxygen and TynTec Agree 15 Second SMS Delivery
Permalink: Red Oxygen and TynTec Agree 15 Second SMS Delivery by Alan Harten
Red Oxygen, a corporate SMS provider has struck a deal with TynTec, the mobile messaging operator.
Under the terms of the agreement TynTec will be responsible for message delivery utilising bulk SMS, email-to-SMS, and Microsoft Outlook SMS.
Red Oxygen is an established provider who operates a variety of message services, including email via SMS as well [...]
Momail Poaches New CEO from Microsoft
Permalink: Momail Poaches New CEO from Microsoft by Alan Harten
After a ten year stint at Microsoft, where amongst other tasks he oversaw the launch of the Asian windows Vista, Kenneth Lundin has made a move to Momail.
He has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, and former CEO and company founder Roger Grönberg is to shift his emphasis to tier one partner development.
Grönberg’s new [...]
Clickatell Nominated For Mobile Search Awards
Permalink: Clickatell Nominated For Mobile Search Awards by Alan Harten
Mobile messaging services provider Clickatell is happy to be nominated in two categories in this year’s upcoming Mobile Search Awards.
“And the nominations are” for best “Best Information Service”. This nomination was as a result of the company’s work with the NHS on a project to enhancing customer service through alternate communications.
The NHS system also [...]
Kiwis Jump on Local Search Bandwagon
Permalink: Kiwis Jump on Local Search Bandwagon by Alan Harten
In a timely move the Yellow Pages Group in New Zealand has begun its new local mobile search product which utilises mobilePeople’s liquid LOCAL solution.
The new service is aimed at the provision of mobile search that will give New Zealanders’ access to all kinds of local based information, using their using their browser [...]
100,000 sign up to FishText
Permalink: 100,000 sign up to FishText by Jan Harris
SMS text message service, FishText, has signed up 100,000 members over the three weeks since its launch.
The service offers SMS text messaging at significantly lower rates than Pay As You Go tariffs, by bypassing mobile operators’ networks.
FishText subscribers can save 95% of the cost of sending messages to contacts overseas, and can also send [...]
Palringo luanches RMS for iPhone
Permalink: Palringo luanches RMS for iPhone by Brian Turner
iPhone owners can now download Palringo’s rich messaging service (RMS) application from Apple®’s new App Store. Palringo enables picture messaging, text-based messaging and, soon, vocal instant messaging over the iPhone’s data connection.
Palringo integrates with several existing, popular instant messaging services: AOL’s AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber and Windows Live Messenger. [...]