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And Finally…

This has nothing to do with mobile but I found the story fascinating.
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Lock up your phones

The Home Office has just announced the winners of their Design Out Crime programme, a £400,000 Mobile Phone Security Challenge, to create ‘crime proof’ mobile phones.

continue reading Lock up your phones

Wellies, mud and mobile technologies

To go along with the wellies and mud Glastonbury has a new mobile app – GlastoNav.
continue reading Wellies, mud and mobile technologies

Text For Electricity

A mobile commerce company in Africa, has unveiled its mobile prepay electric voucher service which allows users to buy electricity vouchers from their mobile.
continue reading Text For Electricity

Mobile map ads

I read with interest how Vodafone is rolling out a range of location-based advertising services, including branded icons promoting products and services in the vicinity of individual users. continue reading Mobile map ads

SMS Donation for Quake Victims

Around 18 million euros has been collected via SMS to help victims of the deadly earthquake in the central Italian region of Abruzzo. continue reading SMS Donation for Quake Victims

Sweating

For those of us who feel it is far easier to sponsor runners in the London marathon than actually compete, we can all now engage with those runners, and the event as a whole, by tracking runners progress thanks to a mobile application launched by Adidas. continue reading Sweating

Growing Mobile Ad Spend

The recent Internet Advertising Bureau study, in association with PWC, has shown us that Mobile advertising was worth an incredible £28.6m in 2008. continue reading Growing Mobile Ad Spend

Nokia App turns words into MMS Art

The Nokia E71 can now turn your words into Art using the Text Art app.

It has just become freely available for download, enabling you to type messages that automatically get generated into mind-bending art that you can share via MMS.

The Text Art app is the brainchild of artist Marius Watz. Creating generative art desktop wallpaper, simply by talking, moving your arms, or in this instance typing. continue reading Nokia App turns words into MMS Art

Roaming Costs to Plummet

The European Parliament have voted through proposals for new price caps on the cost of sending text messages and downloading data for people roaming in Europe. continue reading Roaming Costs to Plummet

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