Given the growing atrocities at campus and the increasing importance of mobile phones as depicted in the latest tragedy at Virginia Tech, an automated notification company called MIR3 has decided to...
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by tom on March 29, 2007
The Times is reporting that Orange UK are about to finalise a deal which will see Orange users able to access their Bebo accounts from their mobiles.The tie-up - Bebo's first with a mobile...
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by tom on March 23, 2007
Moblog UK have announced a deal to provide a mobile community in support of a Channel 4 program called the Big Art Project.The TV series 'Big Art Project' will be the culmination of a year...
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by tom on March 23, 2007
The next Swedish Beers, a mobile industry event held occasionally in London, has been moved from April 5 to April 11 (a Wednesday). I'm planning on attending, so if you're in the area, drop by...
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by tom on March 20, 2007
As someone who works in the mobile web industry and looks on with envy at the handsets and services available elsewhere, I don't find the headline statement that shocking. According to research by...
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by tom on March 20, 2007
Rome City Council has implemented an initiative to allow the city's residents to 'search' the city's 35 public libraries via SMS. The service will return the location of a book, video...
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by tom on March 02, 2007
David Beers is hosting this week's Carnival of the Mobilists. I'd love to host a carnival here, but with my workload (and the fact I lost the email about it...) I don't know if I'm...
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by tom on February 22, 2007
Textually.org has posted some pictures from Tokyomango of their top-selling cellphone dangly things. Although the best one I've seen recently is a dog made from recycled electronics, which also...
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by tom on February 22, 2007
As promised, here's my excuse for being more absent than present for the past few weeks: The web version of the Pitch Mobile Community has now launched, and as I'm the lead developer on both...
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by tom on December 20, 2006
MySpace has finally gone mobile, with the announcement - and launch - of a deal with Cingular to allow MySPace users access to their pages via the US carrier. The service, which comes with a US$2.99 a...
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by tom on December 20, 2006
ABI Research have released news that they believe users of mobile social networking will rise to more than 170 million by 2011, up from the estimated 50 million now."The rapid rise of online...
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by tom on December 13, 2006
I always forget about Mobile Monday, and hence I always forget to go along - although this time around I can be forgiven as it was in Helsinki (although any chance to go to Helsinki is well worth...
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by tom on December 11, 2006
A recently release report from AP-AOL, the AP-AOL Instant Messaging Trends Survey, shows that almost three Quarters of teenagers who use Instant Messaging use it more than email for communication, as...
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by tom on December 01, 2006
Yahoo has entered the group texting market with the quiet launch of Mixd. The new service lets users set up groups and share photos, which can be managed online or via mobile, and which also allows...
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by tom on November 27, 2006
Mobile Europe has managed to get a lot of information about Myspace's plans for a mobile version in an interview in this months edition. MySpace plan to concentrate on delivering core services...
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by tom on November 23, 2006
Business Week have a story up this week about Vodafone's plans to allow their customers to access social networking sites and services from their handsets. Of course, as noted on MocoNews, this...
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by tom on November 21, 2006
First up, some disclosure: This is the project I've been working full-time on for the past 3 months, and is what I alluded to in my last post. Pitch has launched a full mobile social networking...
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by tom on October 23, 2006
The Carnival of the Mobilists has reached it's 50th, returning home after wandering around the mobile blogosphere for the past long while.Welcome back to MobHappy for the jubilee 50th edition of...
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by tom on September 22, 2006
Ewan at SMS Text News has the news that MXit version 5 is due for release this coming Monday.The latest version of MXit, version 5.0, is available for download from noon on Monday 25 September 2006...
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by tom on September 20, 2006
Ewan at SMS Text News has posted a piece on the recent launch of Kiboze, a US service that integrates SMS text messaging with traditional PC-based instant messaging groups, allowing customers to send...
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by tom on August 29, 2006
Cellular News today has an interesting story on a recently released report that claims there are more mobile phones in Europe than landlines.A new report from the European Commission has reported...
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by tom on August 22, 2006
Ewan over at SMS Text news has set up a new website - the Who's Who of the mobile industry - or, as Ewan puts it, A handmade list of the best and the brightest in the mobile industry.......
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