Here at Mediaburst, we don’t pretend to understand the relationship between man made CO2 and changes in the climate, but we do recognise that wasted energy equals wasted profits and filling cabinets with lots of redundant servers then cooling them is neither environmentally friendly nor cost effective.
This financial year we set ourselves a challenge to reduce our office energy bill by at least 25%. In terms of electricity, the largest user in the office and the first target was our comprehensive development and test environment of 10 ‘old’ servers. continue reading Server Virtualisation
We believe you should practise what you preach, and taking that philosophy we’ve sorted out a brand new mobile site for mediaburst.
Once again we’ve worked with the excellent Phil Thompson and he’s produced something that echoes the main mediaburst site. It’s simple, attractive, and most importantly fits nicely onto an iPhone screen.
If you need a link it’s on http://www.mediaburst.co.uk/m/
Let’s get straight into some screen shots… continue reading Mediaburst mobile site
I just had a quick surf through all my favourite mobile blogs and I was surprised at how many featured articles on the ipad.
Although the ipad is more akin to a big iphone than a small laptop it does miss the vital ingredient that makes it mobile, that being a sim card to make calls and send texts. continue reading Is the ipad a mobile?
So what is a grey route?
It’s an SMS route that manages to offer an extraordinarily cheap price by making arrangements outside of the licensed international telecoms companies. It’s a shady part of the industry, lurking out there offering tempting and apparently innocent deals on SMS pricing.
But remember you only ever get what you pay for. If you’re not getting a deal through volume, how are you getting it? continue reading The Myth of the 1p SMS – Do Grey Routes Exist?
I’ve been reading Rework by the founders of 37signals. It’s an interesting book as it resonates well with the way we run mediaburst, and I can fully recommend it.
The book constitutes a number of short essays containing their advice on how to run a business.
Anyway, here’s our essay on service levels: continue reading Set your own service levels
I’ve been opening the post over the last few days. If you’re in the higher echelons of management and don’t ever open the post I advise you to get your hands dirty once in a while. It can be an enlightening experience. continue reading Stop Wasting Money
Having enjoyed a packet of McCoys Sausage Striker flavour crisps I just tried to enter the SMS based on-pack promotion to win a fantastic Football Trip, and I struggled.
Not only are the entry instructions printed in black text on a dark red background rendering it almost unreadable. But the instructions are so complex.
See for yourself. continue reading McCoys SMS On Pack Promotion
This week sees the 100th release of our SMS API. Some of these releases added major new features such as MMS, some didn’t make it past our test servers and others fixed bugs or made everything that little bit faster. continue reading Our SMS API is 100
If you’re having trouble finding the Outlook Mobile Service options in Outlook 2007 then it might be that the functionality wasn’t enabled during setup.
Fortunately it’s pretty simple to get those options to appear.
continue reading Outlook Mobile Service Com Add-In
I admit that I’ve become obsessed with my iphone. My wife says I never put it down, but I argue that’s partly because if I did she’d chuck it in the bin.
I’ve now downloaded a huge range of applications from free fun stuff like the obligatory ipint thingy, games such as Monkey Ball and Angry Birds, to a few productivity apps.
But it got me thinking: which is the best app? What do I use most regularly? continue reading The best mobile application ever…