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With the recession in full swing, industries across the charts have been laying off hundreds of employees — making the job market increasingly competitive. So what’s a freshly unemployed tech professional to do? Hit the streets and start networking. As the hordes of job-seekers descend upon trade shows...
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11-21-2008
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Filed under: iPhone, Mobile, SMS, Hardware, plaxo, rmbrme, Picks, iCard, FoundRead, digital business card services, Nameo, Handshake
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I just came across this article on The Daily Telegraph, which says that as per a study conducted among UK’s mobile phone users, the amount of total text messages exchanged every single day counts up to roughly 217 million. Yes, that’s right, 217 MILLION texts in a DAY. The one you just sent...
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I love it when I see mobile phones being put to good use, and I also love it when say for important issues, mobile phones are being utilised to capture a target audience in the best sense and way possible.
I was browsing around my daily choice of news reads, when I came across an article [...]
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10-29-2008
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Filed under: Good, Mobile, News, Mobile Services, SMS, free, youth, People, Operators, Services, Opinion, young, africa, teen, Mobile Development, use, nhs, Samantha, Kidd, AIDs, PCT, HIV
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I came across this absolutely fantastic overview from Webmonkey that shows you how to create an SMS notification application in no time. I reckon it would take me about 20 minutes, using their code samples, to knock it together.
If you’ve got a working knowledge of PHP, I challenge you to take...
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A thought I’ve pondered over a lot. If I had my way I would change a lot (not only in Mobile), but in the rest of the world. But let’s forget about that; let’s think purely Mobile, purely communications, and sales. What would you change?
What has to annoy me the most with mobiles, especially here [....
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09-03-2008
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Filed under: Mobile, SMS, sales, branding, applications, Annoying, People, Operators, Opinion, satisfaction, locking, innovation, change, Samantha, Models
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Text messages are cool, aren’t they? Expressing yourself in words and hurrying it across to your loved ones was never so interesting. Over the years, as technology advances, text messages and the technology behind it has been put to use in a lot of places.
Be it twitter, reality-show votes, ebay...
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It has been reported that Comtel, an Australian telecom firm is to launch SMSpup: Mobile, an MNVO offering subsidised tariffs in return for adverts.
Unlike Blyk the service is not completely free, and that they will receive around a 65% discount on pre-paid tariffs.
Similar to Blyk customers who “opt...
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Giff Gfroerer if your go-to-guy if you’re doing 2-way text services throughout North America. Giff, President of i2SMS, dropped me a note to tell me about the latest campaign they’ve been working on. He’s been a long time reader of Mobile Industry Review and he knows that I absolutely...
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Tomorrow, it’s GCSE results day. This means two things – feeling extremely sick, and using my mobile phone a lot!
I haven’t really thought about the communications side of tomorrow much, seeing as I’m more worried about everything else. However, as Ewan pointed out to me tomorrow morning I will spending...
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08-20-2008
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Filed under: Mobile, News, Mobile Services, SMS, Texting, communications, phone, People, call, school, word, results, speak, GCSE
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As Rob commented earlier, the BBC’s Olympics text service looked promising.
I was looking forward to frequent text messages across the business day about plucky British chappies and ladies risking all for blighty and spectacularly failing. We’re very good at screwing up and coming last here...
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The team at txtNation are rightly delighted to be providing the infrastructure for wine maker, Blossom Hill’s summer competition. Blossom Hill are giving away 20 summer garden parties worth £1k each. Nice. 3.75 million promotional bottles of their Rosé range are already out in the marketplace looking...
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The Olympics are nearly here.
It’s been four years since myself and five friends screamed ourselves at a TV as the men’s coxless 4 won gold by a gnat’s knacker.
Four years since I nearly got fired for watching the badminton semi final instead of working. Four years since GB I watched...