Text message service AQA has announced their service has helped rescue a couple lost in the Jungle in Thailand. The couple lost their way while trying to reach a secluded beach, by the time darkness fell they were completely lost and tried to phone for help. continue reading SMS Leads to Jungle Rescue
Text Messaging is a whole lot easier now! Imagine, would you believe text messaging would have been so convenient for you today that you could get in touch with all your important contacts within a fraction of seconds? continue reading SMS online
After it warned the mobile industry last year that mandatory regulation could be on the way if it didn’t clean up its act, OFCOM is hoping to introduce new rules to clamp down on mobile misselling.
continue reading OFCOM Warning
A Terrorist who escaped a detention centre last week in Singapore has sparked an unprecedented nationwide manhunt, with more than 1,000 police, soldiers, and elite Nepalese Gurkhas mobilised. The police then took an interesting initiative when it came to fully mobilising their man hunt. In addition to more than 54,000 posters and leaflets with the fugitive’s pictures and description placed at train and bus stations, shopping malls, housing estates, the three mobile phone operators SingTel, StarHub and MI – are also sending out MMS messages with pictures of the fugitive to 3.9 million subscribers. No body has to opt in to get that message STUART
With tonight’s TV programme being the culmination of the Sport Relief fund raising activities we will see a significant amount of text donations. The good news is that Jane Kennedy MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury has now said that donations made to charities by SMS are not liable for VAT opening up the way to making this simple way of donating to charities much more worthwhile. continue reading VAT free Sport Relief
Now my time at Mediaburst is gradually coming to an end, I have been asked by the Directors to do a blog. So here goes-. My knowledge of SMS solutions and the capabilities that are available to companies has grown rapidly over the last 7 months. As you can imagine the first couple of weeks the information that I had to digest was quite extensive but I seemed to retain quite a lot of it and when it came to answering customer queries I even surprised myself at how much I actually knew. continue reading A Fond Farewell
According to The Sleep Council up to 25% of couples sleep apart, and a contributing factor is technological incompatibility where one half of the couple is so engrossed with turning their bed into a communications gateway by bringing their Mobile, Blackberry, or Games Consoles that their partners can’t sleep. As staggering 80% is firing up some hi-tech gadget before bed, and one in 3 are sending SMS or e-mails from our pillow, this compares to only 10% saying prayers. You may be familiar with Pillow Talk but what about Pillow Text? Gary
The EU Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has started to look at SMS and data roaming charges across Europe. Currently, roaming data and SMS services are not regulated and were not covered in the Roaming Regulation 2007. continue reading SMS roaming charges to be investigated
Mobile messaging leader Mediaburst today reveals that it was selected by the Office of Fair Trade (OFT) to develop and deliver an unusual educational text campaign to young consumers as part of the OFT’s Scams Awareness Month campaign for February.
continue reading OFT Anti-Scam Text Campaign
For some time I have believed that the universal availability of unified shortcodes, which enable people to text, call, video call or MMS using just one 5 digit number, would be an important stage in the growth of mobile marketing. continue reading Voice Enabled Shortcodes
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