Interactive Mobile Marketing via In-Car Navigation? February 29, 2008
As an example of advertisers trying to introduce themselves on any mobile medium they can, Relevantis has introduced a new platform that uses branded paid icons on interactive maps to get the message out. The service is aimed at user’s accessing the maps via their mobile device, as well as on their in-car navigation system. The user can then interact with that advertiser with one click, getting things like instant coupons, directions, or a one-click phone call. It creates a win-win situation for everybody, as stated on their website;
The map publisher receives revenue from advertising; advertisers are able to …
Email This PostProperty tax bills now through SMS February 25, 2008
Now, you don’t have to make rounds of the municipal office or go on-line to find out about your property tax bills. Help will be available on your mobile through an SMS, reports the Times of India.
“The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is launching a new system in which citizens would get details of their property tax bills through an SMS service where you mention your property number and sms it to 54646.
The details of the tax will be sent on your mobile within a few seconds.
The formal announcement of the project would be made in a week. The PMC …
Email This PostSarkozy’s SMS made into a song February 24, 2008
This year’s most talked about SMS, purportedly send by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to his ex-wife Cecila eight days before his marriage to singer Carla Bruni saying: “If you come back, I’ll cancel everything” - has been made into a song by Jeanne Cherhal and posted on her MySpace page.
So far it’s been viewed 66,000 times.
Source: Libération
Email This PostWebasto Heater is Activated by SMS February 20, 2008
The winter may bring with it romantic comedies featuring Hugh Grant, but the downside is the drop in temperature. Fortunately, the Webasto Thermo Top E Parking Heater allows users to send a text message to a car where it is installed, which then kicks it into action, ensuring your car is warm to the touch when you get in. The self-contained unit uses a tiny amount of fuel, and can also be activated by voice or remote control. The heater outputs 4.2kW for a maximum of 60 minutes at a time. Sure, that would keep you from hanging like a …
Email This Post‘Friend locator’ could become next craze for social networkers February 18, 2008
Users of social network sites like Facebook will soon be sharing their exact whereabouts with their friends in real-time, owing to new technology that uses the mobile phone as a tracking device, experts say. The AFP reports.
A new social network site, Gypsii, which launched this week at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, allows users to search for and identify their contacts, be they in the neighbouring street or across the ocean.
The software, available for the moment on only top-end phones, enables users to find people, places and events in their local area, as well as share photos, videos and …
Email This PostSMS And Email Pen February 16, 2008
D:Scribe is a digital fountain pen that allows users to send SMS and email messages from paper. Just write out the message and circle the person’s name to send. This does away with a keypad and allows you to focus on communicating in a more personal way from anywhere as long as you have a bluetooth enabled phone and a surface to write on. The pen also records everything you write which can be accessed on a computer. Of course for the creative peeps, if writing doesn’t suit your fancy, the D:Scribe also works with genius and not so genius …
Email This PostTextonyms give cell phone addicts a new language February 10, 2008
R U cycle? Book! Fancy an adds down the sub? There’s a gr8 new carnage.
It may look like gobbledegook, but the most streetwise of teenagers would have no trouble translating and responding to it in kind.
A new language is being developed by cell phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets.
Key words are replaced by the first alternative that comes up on a mobile phone using predictive text — changing “cool” into “book,” “awake” into “cycle,” “beer” into adds,” “pub” into “sub” and “barmaid” into “carnage.”
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Email This PostCrime Stoppers to take text tips February 6, 2008
Cell phone customers will have a powerful crime-reporting tool when an Ottawa technology expert rolls out his special tip-scrambling software to Crime Stoppers branches across the country.
Eric Jacksch says by the end of March, tipsters in Canada can text message information to authorities under the cloak of anonymity that has become synonymous with Crime Stoppers.
“We have to move with technology to keep up with the time,” Jacksch said.
The 38-year-old information security professional, who’s also a volunteer director with the National Capital Area Crime Stoppers, is working with a Texas company to develop the software that will provide a two-way communication …
Email This PostSubmit Classifieds using Text Messgaing February 4, 2008
Classifieds can now be sent in via text messaging thanks to SMS Pal, a text message classified ad company. The service costs 99 cents for every listing and is charged back as a premium SMS message to the user’s carrier. The classified ads run on line at smspal.com and in local participating newspapers.Based in my town of Carlsbad, CA, the company was started last July by former Apple Online Store engineer Joe Moreno, who noticed lots of texting activity in 2005 when he served a stint in East Africa, where he was stationed as a Marine Corps Reserve.
Moreno’s innovation …
Mobile Phone Service Nears 99 Percent February 2, 2008
Almost 99 percent of the U.S. population has access to at least one or more mobile phone provider, and 80 percent of Americans now subscribe to wireless service, according to a Monday report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Looking at census information and maps from Memphis-based American Roamer, which produces details maps of network coverage boundaries, the FCC found that 280 million Americans, or 99.8 percent, have one or more …
