Monthly Archives: April 2009

SMS : Secret Message Service

Recently, a French guy launched a project called Secret Message Service http://www.secretmessageservice.com/ . The principle is really fun: people send their secrets by SMS, then the site owners take their favourites and publish them on the website. You can also create an account on this website in which you use filters or themes like “work” [...]

Android Marketplace stalls?

Have you had a look at Android Marketplace recently? I mean, a proper nose around? Initially, it made me feel a little excited. The example apps that use all the possibilities are the sort of stuff we used to go all misty eyed over at Hutch all those years ago. Integration with GPS? sure! Plus [...]

Latest edition to our mobile museum – NEC 80s phone

We have a fast growing collection of antique mobile phones in the office and the latest edition is a peach. It’s an NEC ‘portable’ phone from the 80′s. It weighs in at around 4kg, comes with a strap, and as you can see from the pictures, it still powers up! We’ve put a modern handset [...]

Lack of any mobile marketing in New York City

  I have seen no mobile marketing since arriving in New York City! Not that I don’t have better things to do on my vacation (sorry holiday) than to look for this stuff, but you know, I’m killing time whilst the girlfriend trawls the shops on 5th Avenue…. I even wandered up to Times Square expecting [...]

Yahoo! Launches Big Purple Scooby Snack

Yahoo! launched their new mobile portal yesterday, in mobile web and iPhone app flavours. It combines all their key mobile offerings in one giant purple stack and replaces their previous suite of downloadable apps (which I could never get to work 100%). Some of the features of the web version look good; customisable content and [...]

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