Breaking News! Facebook To Add SMS Text Feature to Increase Fan Page Virality! March 29, 2009
We just discovered an incredible new option (presumably in beta) for select administrators and promoters of Facebook Public Profiles - you can text to become a fan of select businesses, organizations, politicians, or official entities on Facebook! Go ahead, try this out by fanning our firm - Text fan theKbuzz to FBOOK (32665) to become a fan of ours on Facebook. (Replace “thekbuzz” with the name of another vanity url on a Facebook Fan Page / Public Profile such as Barack Obama to ask people to become fans of that public profile or business!)I predict Facebook will …
@BarackObama Updates His Twitter! March 26, 2009
Barack Obama, Twitter’s second most popular user (CNN has passed him), updated his Twitter account today for the first time since taking office.The update is to promote the President’s online town hall, which encourages citizens to submit questions via The White House website. Obama will be responding to some of the most popular questions – determined by users voting them up ala Digg () – via video on Thursday.
Last night, I was critical of the Obama new media team for not using his massive online reach to promote the Email This Post
Indonesia to broadcast general election information via SMS March 23, 2009
JAKARTA, March 20 (Xinhua) — Indonesia will broadcast the information of 2009 general election that scheduled on April 9 via short message service (SMS) to around 155 million cell phone users nationwide, the commission and telecommunication officials said on Friday. “With the help of 10 telecommunication operators, we hope the SMS service subscribers be aware of the importance of the general election,” said the head of general election commission (KPU) Abdul Hafiz Anshary after the launch of SMS election broadcast. According to the spokesman of Indonesian Communication and Information Ministry Gatot S. …
Email This PostMobile Marketing’s GomoText Announces One Month of Free Services March 21, 2009
GomoText, a provider of mobile marketing solutions, reportedly announced its provision of one month of free services along with a reduction of fees by 50 percent for all its new clients.
The discounted rates and free service offer is available only to new customers for a limited period of time.
Customers taking advantage of the new offer will be able to freely access range of the company’s services such as bulk SMS, Txt2Win, Voting, Autoresponders and complex Premium SMS campaigns. The company also provides customized marketing solutions tailored to the needs of its customers in the form of quizzes, coupons, …
Email This PostCops hand out 9,000 tickets to drivers talking on cell phones March 19, 2009
Cops handed out a staggering 9,000 summonses in one day to drivers who were caught yapping on their cell phones.During a 24-hour crackdown Thursday, police zeroed in on motor-mouthed motorists, giving 9,016 of them $120 summonses.The NYPD warned drivers through media outlets that cops would be on the lookout for drivers who talk on the hand held cell phones without a headset. The initiative began Thursday at midnight and concluded Friday.In 2008, the NYPD issued 195,579 summonses across the city.A Daily News reporter covering the crackdown Thursday got busted talking on his cell phone while …
Email This PostPR firm launches Twendz: A Twitter trend analyzer March 17, 2009
Normally, PR firms are pitching us start-ups, not creating them. That’s not the case with Twendz, a new Twitter tool from the folks at Waggener Edstrom. It pulls in the latest tweets on any given topic, and shows you what the overall user sentiment is, be it positive or negative.This is cleverly wrapped up into an ever-flowing stream of new user tweets, the speed of which you can control anywhere from a slow crawl to two new tweets per second. It’s also able to dig up a past history of how many people have posted something on the topic …
Email This PostGoogle’s Free Phone Manager a threat to a Variety of Services March 15, 2009
Google stepped up its attack on the telecommunications industry on Thursday with a free service called Google Voice that, if successful, could chip away at the revenue of companies big and small, like eBay, which owns Skype, telephone companies and a string of technology start-up firms.
Google Voice is an expanded version of a service previously known as GrandCentral, a start-up that Google acquired 20 months ago. It is intended to simplify the way people handle phone calls, voice mail and Email This Post
India mobile market defies gloom March 12, 2009
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Amidst all the economic gloom, one business is still booming — India’s mobile phones — thanks to the world’s lowest call rates driven by fierce competition among cellular operators, experts say.And while economists forecast a sharp slowdown in India’s economic growth, no downturn is seen in the mobile market, which added a record 15.4 million wireless users in January — the biggest monthly growth ever, according to the latest official data.”India represents a unique mobile market where competition is the highest and the tariffs are the lowest,” T.V. Ramachandran, head of the Cellular Operators Association …
Email This PostExclusive Nokia E71 Text Art app turns your words into MMS art March 10, 2009
GLOBAL - Text Art is an exclusive new mobile app for the Nokia E71. 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.Part of a Nokia’s new Beautiful Connections project for the Nokia E71, the Text Art app is the brainchild of artist Marius Watz, a pioneer in a new digital medium called generative art - this fresh approach sees art automatically and organically created, brought to life by some pretty unique methods. Not a paintbrush …
Email This PostDutch leave messages on God phone March 8, 2009
An art exhibition opening in the Netherlands will allow people to call a telephone number designated for God - but they will have to leave a message.Dubbed God’s Hotline, it aims to focus attention on changes to the ways Dutch people perceive religion.Dutch artist Johan van der Dong chose a mobile phone number to show that God was available anywhere and anytime, Radio Netherlands reported.Critics say the project mocks those with religious beliefs. Forming part of an art installation in the town of Groningen, the voicemail message says: “This is the voice of God, I am not able to speak …
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