Tag Archives: SMS

Blyk is dead. Long live Blyk!

An interesting piece of news came up in the FT today. Apparently Blyk has changed tack and done a deal with Voda in Holland, possibly admitting that it is coming to the end of the MVNO road. Much is made of how, using an existing operator’s infrastructure, it would be possible to scale the advertising [...]

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” [...]

US mobile marketing firms face mobile to web interface patent claims

According to a ‘breaking news’ piece on Mobile Marketer, a number of mobile marketing companies and SMS aggregators have received a legal letter from TeleCommunication Systems Inc. , claiming that they have infringed patents around the technology that allows messages from consumer mobile phones to be relayed to web interfaces. The technical and legal side [...]

Lifelines in Mumbai

The minute the terrorist attacks broke in Mumbai, Twitter received a huge volume of messages sent by SMS. Over at CNN, they report that, “With more than 6 million members worldwide, an estimated 80 messages, or “tweets,” were being sent to Twitter.com via SMS every five seconds, providing eyewitness accounts and updates. Many Twitter users [...]

Techno-pecking

I spotted an enjoyable article over the weekend in The Sunday Times. Apparently the texting is breaking down social barriers and encouraging instant flirtations. Whoohoo! Bring on the LUV. However, it seems that this is also causing plenty of social embarrassment and things are all a bit tricky in the world of the ‘techno-peck’ (I’m [...]

Switch to our mobile site