While I was renewing my car insurance over the weekend, I came
across a clever use of SMS. The company, Swiftcover, immediately sent a
text message to my mobile containing the phone number for its claims
team. The messaged suggested it would be a jolly good idea to save the number into the handset's addressbook.
Continue reading "Swiftcover inspires new use for Bango Button" »
I've just been battling a particular UK content provider, Tanla Mobile,
and the whole experience illustrates just how dangerous self-regulation
is for this industry. It appears that nothing can stop this particular
provider sending premium rate text messages out to me.
The regulator, Phonepayplus, has to make its mind up as to what exactly the industry standard 'cease and desist' command needs to be.
Continue reading "When the txts just won't stop coming" »
San Franciscans put text messaging to good use to protest
about China's
Treatment of Tibet. Somebody belonging to Students for a Free Tibet created a
usergroup on Textmark's
service.
Continue reading "Tibetan sympathisers turn to text" »